The title of this volume proves to be particularly apt, as Mark Grayson starts to realize that he’s not really making a difference in the world just by stopping the bad guys.  Like just about every superhero ever, he’s simply maintaining the status quo.  That all changes here.  It starts small, with him talking things […]

I mentioned this in passing on Wednesday, and as you might’ve guessed, I REALLY liked it.  There have been dozens of Wolverine and Spider-Man team-up stories in the past and there will likely be hundreds more in the future, whatever shape the industry takes.  Will there be any as good as this one?  I doubt […]

Not wanting to be forgotten amidst the “Before Watchmen” hoo-ha yesterday, Marvel released a teaser for their next “Spider-Event” in June.  The teaser has an amalgamation of the insignia for Peter Parker and Miles Morales.  Now this could mean that Peter will be back in some way or form in “Ultimate Spider-Man,” which I doubt […]

I was going to write about “Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine” today, but guess what I saw when I opened up the L.A. Times today. That this was coming was no surprise.  Rich Johnston broke the story months ago and after leaks of character art got hit with C&D notices from DC’s lawyers it only became […]

When we last saw him, Wolverine had beaten the Devil and crawled up out of Hell back into his own body.  It should’ve been a triumphant victory for everyone’s favorite Canadian berserker mutant, but it turns out that the demons that were inhabiting his body while his soul was in Hell are still there.  Cyclops, […]

As I write this, the future of “Generation Hope” has been all but announced as its absence from the most recent issue of “Previews” has led many to conclude that new writer James Asmus’ first arc will also be his last.  Sales for the series started out mediocre and only got worse from there, save […]

The worst thing that can be said about this title is that it’s an editorial mandate in its purest form.  Somewhere along the line, someone decided that the X-titles were kind of directionless and needed an event to re-shape the line’s focus.  You’d think that would’ve been the aim of events like “Messiah Complex” and […]

“Avengers vs. X-Men” kicks off this month and as it’s the next major X-event, I’m committed to picking it up in hardcover.  That said, I’m having a disconnect between the fact that this twelve-issue series requires five different writers (Bendis, Brubaker, Aaron, Hickman, and Fraction) in order to see it to completion.  Theoretically this shouldn’t […]

DC obviously sees something in the man as he will soon be taking over writing duties on “Deathstroke,” “Grifter,” and “Hawkman” after “Hawk and Dove” is cancelled.  For myself, and I suspect many others, that just gives us a reason we can safely avoid these titles for the forseeable future.  What’s more interesting is the […]

Steve Rogers and company team up with Shang-Chi in order to take on the Shadow Council and the “Master of Kung-Fu’s” mostly-resurrected evil dad.  Then Rogers dives into the mind of a former comrade from WWII to find out what happened to him after the mission they were on went to hell.  Though the first […]