“Dial H For Hero” is an oddball superhero concept from DC that has been revived several times over the years with, at best, modest amounts of success.  It’s not hard to understand why it keeps being brought back as having a telephone dial that grants superpowers to ordinary people is a versatile setup that lends […]

The only conventional things about this volume are the challenges its protagonists face.  After the crew of the Manhattan Projects reached the stars (and wiped out an alien race in the process), the next step is to consolidate forces on Earth.  This means teaming up with their Russian counterparts in Star City and taking out […]

For a series that advertises itself as a surreal mystery, getting Damon Lindelof (co-creator and co-showrunner of “Lost”) to write the introduction to this first volume of “Mind MGMT” does not exactly inspire confidence.  While I certainly don’t regret investing my time in the six seasons of that show, the fact that he and the […]

It feels weird reading this when I still haven’t finished Jonathan Hickman’s run on the title (the last volumes of “FF” and “Fantastic Four” will be arriving in June and July, respectively).  However, Marvel has decided to be more judicious with their premiere hardcover line so we’re getting this first collection of Matt Fraction’s take […]

It would have been ideal for me to do this column last week when the big “Saga”/Comixology/Apple controversy was going.  In case you missed it, people were up in arms over Apple apparently banning “Saga” #12 from sale on iOS due to a miniscule amount of gay sex (really, finding it was like playing “Where’s […]

Word on the street is that after decades of legal wrangling and acrimony, “Marvelman” may finally be coming back into print.  Mark Buckingham, who drew the parts of Neil Gaiman’s stories with the character that saw print, appears to be optimistic about it too so it might be that Marvel has finally gotten all of […]

Not really a WWII story per se, but the story of one German intelligence operative turning on his masters for his own personal gain.  “Broken Wings” is a translation of a European graphic novel from a writer, Herik Hanna, that I’ve never heard of and an artist, Trevor Hairsine, who I’m quite familiar with due […]

Right now, Sean Murphy is one of the most compelling artists in the industry no matter what kind of script he’s working from.  When he’s given a good one, such as Grant Morrison’s “Joe the Barbarian” or Jason Aaron’s two-part “Hellblazer” story, it becomes a joy to pour over the detail he invests in each […]

If nothing else, writer Gerry Duggan and artist Phil Noto have to be commended for having the ingenuity to think that “The Odyssey” could be reinvented as a near-future take on the War on Terror and one soldier’s efforts to get home.  This solder has no name, save “Captain” and “father,” but we’re introduced to […]