Now here’s a new volume that I’ve been anticipating!  After the previous installment reminded me how good this series can be (when I don’t know what’s going to happen next), the waiting for this one actually started to bother me.  Which is something that hadn’t happened yet during Dark Horse’s rollout of the series.  Can […]

So when I reviewed the first volume of “Green Lantern Corps” last week, it had slipped my mind that it wasn’t actually the “first volume.”  Like a lot of ongoing series, it was preceded by a mini-series to see if there was an audience for it.  “Recharge” does a good job of setting things up […]

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 […]