The first volume of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s “Batman” was easily one of the highlights of DC’s “New 52.”  Sharply written and tightly plotted by Snyder with some very stylish and detailed art from Capullo, the story of Batman finding a new threat in a city he thought he knew from top to bottom […]

Rucka’s run on the title has focused on the descent of Rachel Cole-Alves from former marine and bride-to-be to willing participant in the title character’s neverending war on crime.  Though it looked as if she was going to reconsider her current path in life at the end of the previous volume, she realizes that the […]

(The following contains spoilers for last Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” so if you haven’t seen it yet, AVERT YOUR EYES!) I was all ready to believe that The Governor had really turned on Merle, the man who does all of his dirty work, because it made for such a delicious surprise twist in […]

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 […]