There are some who think that making a comic book as a movie pitch is an inherently bad thing.  After all, the idea is to get the idea out there in some form, attract the attention of Hollywood, and ride the ensuing wave of box-office success and merchandising to a pot filled with cash at […]

Now I liked the first volume of this latest take on the character well enough, but something just felt off here.  Maybe it’s because writer Scott Snyder burns through the conflict in the four issues from the title proper in a way that doesn’t allow the events contained inside to resonate.  Yes, there are some […]

Now I’ve talked before about how writer Robert Venditti has been getting work at DC on projects both low-profile (“Demon Knights”) and high (“Green Lantern”).  This comes in spite of the fact that he hasn’t been a very prolific or well-known person in the industry, though his best-known project “The Surrogates” was adapted into a […]

“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 […]