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 […]

The Beat posted a breakdown of the “DC Entertainment Essential Graphic Novels” promotional magazine that came out recently.  It contains 25 titles in the list and is full of titles that deserve the “essential” tag (“Sandman” vol. 1, “The Dark Knight Returns,” “Saga of the Swamp Thing” vol. 1), some that are just good (“American […]

I said over a year ago that the finale of Grant Morrison’s “Batman” run was shaping up to be nothing less than awesome, and this latest/new/unrebooted volume of “Batman, Incorporated” goes a long way towards proving that.  With the mastermind behind the globe-spanning criminal organization known as Leviathan revealed to be Talia Al’Ghul, the true […]

Reading this volume makes me wish that Nick Spencer would take some time and read through all of Naoki Urasawa’s “20th Century Boys.”  Though both of their series are very different in style and tone, at their cores they deal with mysteries that slowly unfold over a long period of time.  What gives Urasawa’s series […]

Grant Morrison got the chance to rebuild Superman from the ground up in the first volume to entertaining, if not spectacular, results.  In the second, he digs deeper into the Man of Steel’s status quo and we get a story that takes a look at what happens when he feels that Clark Kent’s identity is […]

There’s no more land on Earth to discover.  Short of a major undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption forming a new island somewhere, every square inch is accounted for and spoken for.  But what if new land was somehow created?  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a real thing and writer Joe Harris has taken it […]

Spoilers be damned!  Any story that involves Captain America getting his ass handed to him by Dennis “D-Man” Dunphy is automatically in the running for “worst story of the year” around here.  I don’t care how tragic his situation is, the character is so terminally lame that there’s no benefit for using him the way […]

The last time “Uncanny X-Force” did a story that spanned two collected volumes, it was “The Dark Angel Saga.”  That was the rare superhero epic that was as good as its hype, so the “Final Execution” storyline has a lot to live up to in that regard along with the fact that it represents writer […]