Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men:  Blue – Origins #1 No, it’s not a revival of the Cullen Bunn-written “X-Men” series.  Nor is it a throwback to the Gold/Blue teams from the early 90’s.  This is a one-shot which promises the definitive origin of one of the bluest X-Men:  Nightcrawler.  Why is he getting a “definitive” origin here?  […]

While I let my expectations with established talent dictate a lot of what I read, there’s something to be said for picking up a comic from creators I’m unfamiliar with and being entertained by it.  This has happened before and it’ll happen again.  Of course, there’s always the chance that you might wind up with […]

Forest Innman makes his living digitizing old films for a movie studio.  It’s a decent living, but a constantly depressing reminder to him that he never made it as a filmmaker himself.  Then he comes across a canister of film for “Night of the Ghoul.”  Thought to be lost, it was a horror film made […]

How would you live your life if you knew that it was all going to end at a certain point?  That’s the question which hangs over this miniseries from writer Mark Russell and artist Mike Allred, and the person who has to ponder it is the Man of Steel himself.  Not right away, though, as […]

I really liked the first volume of Titan Comics’ “Boodborne” series by writer Ales Kot and artist Piotr Kowalski.  It managed the really tricky task of adapting a game with a famously abstract/inscrutable/hard-to-parse story and communicated its style quite well into the medium of sequential art.  That didn’t last as while vol. 2 was solid, […]

Commander Zahra is dead and the Rebel Fleet has been reunited.  Everything looks to be coming up roses for the Rebellion, especially after they smash up an Imperial Unity Day parade being broadcast throughout the galaxy.  However, the Empire is always up to something, and that something is usually kept secret until it’s ready to […]

I’ve never followed Dick “Nightwing” Grayson’s solo adventures before, but when you’ve got writer Tom Taylor taking over and his “Suicide Squad” partner, artist Bruno Redondo, working on it that made me take notice.  What we have here looks to be a back-to-basics approach to the character as he has returned to the city of […]

Theo Teth-Adam – Black Adam to his friends, enemies, and the general superhero community – is dying.  The reason why is a mystery, but the time has come for him to pass on his legacy to one of his descendants.  In this case, the lucky recipient winds up being one Malik White, an African-American medical […]

Given that he’s currently going one-for-three in completing creator-owned series (and the one he did complete, “Sea of Stars” was a two-volume story co-written with Dennis Hallum) you’d think I’d be worried about starting another one from writer Jason Aaron.  Well, even if he’s not good at finishing them, I wasn’t disappointed by “Southern Bastards” […]

Crew 513 is a brigade of thirty female prisoners who are part of a special group that have been trained to help put out forest fires.  “Wildfire” focuses on a group of four, Sawyer, Zinn, Ramos, and Brooks, and their C.O. Ruby Ma Ning – “Ma” to her crew – as they fight against the […]