Long time readers will know that I like Peter David’s “X-Factor” a great deal.  In fact, the first six volumes of his current run are comics that I’d recommend to people who generally aren’t interested in the “X-Men” franchise.  That hasn’t been the case for a while now, but David still knows how to write […]

Stories where the future has gone to hell for mutants, or where changes to the past have made for a wretched present day are a recurring trend in the “X-Men” universe.  You’ve got classics like “Days of Future Past” that started the whole trend, and the “Age of Apocalypse” which provided the franchise with one […]

Oh.  So THAT’S what Robert Kirkman was talking about when he mentioned the “Carl Thing” that was going to be reprinted in this volume.  He mentioned this at a con a few months back and (thankfully) didn’t go into it because the majority of the audience were trade-waiters like me.  Anyway, the moment itself is […]

When the post-”Blackest Night” initiative at DC was given the name “Brightest Day,” a buddy of mine remarked, “You know, now they’re going to do a crossover for every verse of the Green Lantern oath.”  To which I replied, “SHHHHHHH!  Don’t give them ideas!”  Fortunately writers Geoff “Green Lantern” Johns, Tony “Green Lantern Corps.” Bedard, […]

For those of you who haven’t heard, Mavel will be cancelling “Uncanny X-Men” with issue #544 in November.  It will be relaunched with a new #1 issue two weeks later along with another series “Wolverine and the X-Men” spinning out of the events of the upcoming “Schism” event.  “Uncanny” will continue to be written by […]

I haven’t said anything about the “DC 52” relaunch mainly because I’ve been busy absorbing what everyone else has been saying about it.  Personally, I think that re-starting EVERYTHING with a new #1 issue is a bit of genius.  This should mean that all 52 issues are a perfect jumping on point for anyone with […]

Mutant plague!  That’s the hook for this volume as the inhabitants of Utopia find themselves waylaid by a strange and extremely savage flu virus.  While the idea of normal diseases evolving to take on mutants would make for an interesting, if esoteric, story, it’s actually part of Lobe’s master plan for the Sublime Corporation.  You […]

Speaking of series that are keeping their momentum going, vol. 6 picks up on the capture of the Plutonian by the alien Vespa without missing a beat.  Though the crazed superhero’s forced departure from Earth would seem to spell the end of everyone’s troubles, it soon becomes apparent that the devil they know has been […]

“Green Lantern” made $53.1 million over the weekend.  That’s not a great start for a film that cost around $200 million to make and an additional $100+ million to market.  It could surprise everyone and decline by, say 35%, next weekend, but a trajectory closer to that of “Watchmen” is more likely.  Now that the […]

I bought a lot of comics at Comic-Con last year, and if the first volume of “King of RPGs” wasn’t the best thing I read from that stack, it was still pretty close to the top.  It turned its extreme nerdiness regarding pen-and-paper RPGs and collectible card games into an asset as writer (and public […]