While I’m always up for a good science-fiction story, this title also had the benefit of Robert Kirkman’s seal of approval since it comes via the writer’s Skybound imprint at Image.  Unfortunately Kirkman’s endorsement was misapplied here as the first volume of “Clone” introduces us to Dr. Luke Taylor and his predicament in terms more […]

Crossover season continues and kicks into even higher gear this month as the “X-Men” get in on the action now.  “Battle Of The Atom” begins an event centered around the “All-New X-Men” and has that title’s premise coming full circle.  You knew that those X-Men from the past were going to have to go back […]

Picking up where the “Avengers vs. X-men” spinoff fight title left off is this new anthology series teaming up — wait for it — an Avenger and an X-man in adventures that are as wacky as they are random.  That’s the catch here as most of these stories have very little significance to them outside […]

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 […]