Sending a B-list character out with their own solo series without an A-list creative team has proven to be commercial suicide again and again over the past few years.  Occasionally, you’ll get lucky and the team will click and we’ll have ourselves a new hit book that will go on for as long as the […]

So the big news this week is Marvel-related, but borne out of Image.  The announcement that “Spawn” supporting character Angela will be appearing in that formerly so-secret-they-had-to-get-Joe-Quesada-to-draw-it epilogue to “Age of Ultron” and subsequently decamping to “Guardians of the Galaxy” is more interesting than exciting.  Let’s face it, we’re talking about a character whose commercial […]

The finale to “Age of Ultron” ships this month with an ending so secret, they had to get someone else to illustrate it.  In addition to Brandon Peterson and Carlos Pacheco, former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada comes onboard to draw a sequence that will have people talking about for years.  No, really.  All we know […]

James Robinson disappeared from comics to Hollywood for a while after completing his magnum opus “Starman.”  That didn’t work out so well (see “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” movie) and he eventually came back to us.  That didn’t work out so well either for a while as his “One Year Later” storyline on “Batman” was […]

It’s been a quiet time for news involving Dark Horse, so I’m at somewhat of a loss as to what to put here.  I could always rehash my grudges involving the current state of their manga line, particularly after the puff piece masquerading as an interview publisher Mike Richardson did for Previews.  However, it’s hard […]

I’ll be talking about two main things this month in more depth than I usually do for these posts after the break.  One is about the new lineup of writers for the “Green Lantern” family of titles.  The other is the announcement of “100 Bullets:  Brother Lono,” the follow up to Azzarello and Risso’s great […]

The latest volume of “Atomic Robo,” subtitled “The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific,” is good fun by the series’ reliable standards.  After the title character runs afoul of some unknown airborne fighter craft in the Pacific, he’s subsequently rescued by the title characters.  Women who took up the call to industry in WWII but didn’t […]

The insanity doesn’t let up for a second in this volume even for a second, though it does start to strain against the boundaries of the story logic on display here.  I realize that’s a funny thing to call insanity on except that one of the main plot threads here (spotlighted on the cover) involves […]

I’ve been looking forward to one story from this volume for quite some time now.  In fact, when issuing my concluding thoughts on vol. 11 I said that creator Eric Powell’s take on the industry’s self-destructive trends would likely be worth the price of the whole volume.  Now that it’s finally here, guess which story […]

Dan Abnett is best known (in comics anyway) for his collaborations with co-writer Andy Lanning which have ranged from DC’s “Legion of Superheroes” and “Resurrection Man” to a whole host of cosmic Marvel projects which I’ve written about and generally enjoyed over the years.  This represents the first series I’ve read from him as a […]