Throughout this volume, I could hear the sound of the plot thickening.  Julie hides out, gets to know Dillon better, finds more out about her suit’s abilities, and comes face to face with the homeless guy who has part of it grafted onto his hand.  On the opposing side, Ivy successfully investigates Julie’s history and […]

The previous volume left off on a great cliffhanger with Freakangel Luke getting up and complaining to the group’s medical specialist about how his head was killing him.  This was after he had been shot in the chest with a shotgun and then in his head to make sure that he was dead.  If you’re […]

Normally I’d complain about having a tie-in one-shot being arranged out of chronological order in a series’ latest trade paperback collection.  It’s just the fussy fanboy that I am.  With this latest “Wolverine:  Weapon X” collection, the “Dark Reign:  The List” one-shot is the last story featured here despite the fact that not only was […]

With Hal Jordan’s “rebirth” as Green Lantern in the DC Universe being the commercial success that it was, a spinoff title to capitalize on that success was inevitable.  Fortunately the concept of an interstellar police force is big enough to handle two titles with different approaches.  Where “Green Lantern” is “The Hal Jordan Show,” “Green […]

Best known for his long-running “Strangers in Paradise” series, writer/artist Terry Moore made a name for himself with that series in the 90’s with his skills at creating richly detailed characters and relationships.  He also had the artistic talent to vividly convey these things on the page as well.  As character-driven as that series was, […]

While “Scalped” has certainly been one of the grimmer series to come down the Vertigo pipeline, it has yet to reach the point where the darkness overwhelms the story or the characters.  That’s because at the end of vol. 4, it reached the point where I figured series protagonist Dash Bad Horse had hit rock […]

It’s the stuff dreams are made of.  Almost literally in the case of the title object here.  This latest installment in the adventures of John Gaunt, a.k.a. GrimJack, has him tracking down a rare statue with mysterious powers.  The problem for him is that not only does its current owner have it under lock and […]

There’s still some fun to be had from reading these volumes, as the core idea of Norman Osborne leading a team of supervillains posing as the Avengers is a lot of fun.  That is, if your idea of fun is seeing a group of anti-social manipulators, crazies, and outright psychotics try to work together as […]

I thought that the first volume of writer Warren Ellis’ “Astonishing X-Men” was an interesting failure.  It had a lot of good ideas, coupled with the man’s talent for razor-sharp dialogue, but it also managed the dubious trick of feeling both too slow and not long enough to allow its story to really work.  As […]

A few weeks ago, Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool reported that Vertigo’s original graphic novel line was part of the “walking dead.”  This is in the sense that no new OGNs were being scheduled and the only ones that will be seeing release are those too far along in the production cycle to be […]