This latest adaptation of the “Parker” novels by Darwyn Cooke offers up the immense thrill of seeing highly competent professionals plan and pull off a job that is, shall we say, “unreasonable.”  After six months of idleness, the title character agrees to take part in a new job through an old contact.  It’s a job […]

Looking at a lot of the Marvel NOW! relaunches, I’ll concede that they’ve certainly done a good job of getting top talent on A-list characters.  Of course, looking at some of these launches still has me scratching my head at what they were thinking.  There’s also one that has a great idea for a mini-series […]

After the first book, I was expecting great things here and they didn’t let me down.  After successfully acquiring the life seed in the “Age of Apocalypse,” X-Force is immediately ambushed by Archangel, and his Horsemen who take it for themselves, leaving the team to escape by the skin of their teeth.  Everyone except Psylocke […]

Vol. 17 of “The Walking Dead” comes out this month and collects the landmark issue #100.  I’d also like to issue a special, “Thanks a fucking lot!” to the reviewer at IGN who managed to spoil one of the key events of that issue for me.  You see, the way IGN’s comics reviews work is […]

(This is actually “vol. 16” in Ed Brubaker’s run, but this is what they’re calling it on the spine.) Reading this left me hugely depressed for reasons not wholly related to the story within the book.  It’s pretty standard as far as these things go:  Steve Rogers, now back as Captain America, finds out that […]

Joe Kubert passed away over the weekend and while he certainly deserved the title “legendary artist” for his work on “Sgt. Rock,” “Tor,” “Fax From Sarajevo,” and numerous other DC war and superhero titles, his legacy extends far beyond his artistic skills.  The man also founded the “Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art” […]

Even if it didn’t stick its landing, I still enjoyed Terry Moore’s “Echo” a great deal and that made picking up the first volume of his newest series an easy choice.  Where “Echo” was a clear departure from his signature work, the grounded relationship drama “Strangers in Paradise,” “Rachel Rising” is another sharp right turn […]

Greg Rucka has written some good comics for Marvel and DC, and some great ones for Oni.  (Both volumes of “Whiteout” and “Queen and Country” for the latter if you’re wondering.)  Now, after a brief vacation from the industry — ended in part by “Atomic Robo,” go read the man’s introduction to vol. 6 if […]

Going back to “Daredevil” for a bit, if Mark Waid didn’t come along to reset the tone and inject some positivity and good humor into the title and character, it was inevitable that someone would’ve done it at some point.  That’s the nature of these corporate-owned characters — they’re meant to be kept continually in […]

Daredevil is a character who tends to be defined by how far a writer can grind him down and still leave something for others to work with.  You can probably trace this back to Frank Miller’s definitive run, and even more so in his follow-up “Born Again” with David Mazzuchelli.  This became even more apparent […]