We’ve got several new #1’s premiering this month: four ongoing titles and two one-shots. There’s one more if you count Howard Chaykin’s “Century West” graphic novel as one too. Speculators should take note that two of the ongoing titles are marked as “Gems of the Month” and are coming from established creators. I imagine that’s […]

What’s the best way to establish a new villain’s credentials?  Have him kill off a member of the main cast in his very first appearance.  That’s what Negan, leader of The Survivors, did and it made him instantly hateable.  Of course, death is really cheap in this series and a real bad guy in this […]

Come September it’ll have been two years since the start of the “New 52” and just as they did last year with “zero month” DC will be putting out a new event for this anniversary.  “Villains Month” will see the start of a new mini-series called “Forever Evil” which kicks off from the premise that […]

Thanks mainly to the writing of Paul Cornell, the first volume of “Demon Knights” was one of the more entertaining offerings from the New 52.  While the overall story of several individuals of questionable character and great skill banding together to save a town from certain destruction has been done so often that it even […]

You may recall that a while back I expressed my displeasure that this storyline was even happening. Since then, sales on the “Ultimate” titles have sunk even lower and there are rumblings of an “Avengers vs. Ultimates” event happening next year that will formally see the dissolution of this particular universe. If that event does […]

I didn’t expect the first volume of this series to grow on me as much as it did while I was reading it.  The end result was that I wound up looking forward to reading the next volume more than I thought I would.  Creator/co-writer Robert Kirkman and artist Shawn Martinbrough are still onboard, but […]

Do I have anything to say about Image right now?  Not a damn thing at the moment.  Of course, I am coming down from the high of attending Fanime in San Jose since Thursday.  Even though I went with John for an extra day this year, the con didn’t seem to last any longer because […]

So I did get out to see “Iron Man 3” a couple weeks back and was thoroughly impressed by what I saw.  Though it didn’t quite capture the “shock of the new” that the first film had, it was still a big step up from the previous one in that it gave us an actual […]