“Rebirth” also had another goal besides re-establishing Hal Jordan in the DCU:  To see if enough people would buy a series with him in it to make re-launching “Green Lantern” feasible.  Now I’m fairly certain they were going to do it regardless of how the series sold… but imagine for a moment if it had […]

I’m sure that the behind-the-scenes editorial wrangling that led to Hal Jordan falling from grace as Green Lantern, becoming the villain Parallax, dying and becoming a host for the Spectre, before being coming back to life to pick up where he left off would make for a good book.  I’d certainly like to know how […]

When the patriarch of the Locke family is killed by one of his former students, the rest of the family decides to head back to their home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts.  As Robert Crais noted in his introduction to this book, if you’re planning on putting your life back together you DON’T move to a town […]

(Or, “Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 23” for those of you keeping track at home.) After the hiccup that was “Ultimatum,” writer Brian Michael Bendis sweeps most of it under the rug and gets back to telling stories about comics greatest hard-luck superhero.  On one hand, he’s now appreciated by NYC’s police force.  On the other, he […]

I should’ve written this review right after the one for “Counter X” but nearly a decade went by before someone decided to bring back Nate Gray.  This makes me look good in comparison… right?  Aaaaaaaaanyway… This mini-series was spun out of the events of “Utopia” after Norman Osborne decided to create his own team of […]

After the world-shattering events of the last volume, writer Robert Kirkman dials things back for the latest one.  Of course, “dialing it back” by “Invincible’s” standards involves the title character being forced to square off with an all-powerful alien amazon while the sequids decide to unleash their long-gestating plan to take over Houston… and then […]

I wasn’t really blown away or fearsomly disappointed by writer Terry Moore’s first volume of “Runaways,” but I’m not sorry to see him depart the series three issues in to this volume.  What we have here is a bog-standard superhero plot where an evil DJ and his voodoo-priest buddy turn everyone in L.A. who has […]

Some background on this first:  Back in the day when Warren Ellis getting all sorts of attention for his work on “Transmetropolitan” and “The Authority,” Marvel approached him with the opportunity to re-make three satellite X-titles in his own image.  These titles were “X-Force,” “Generation X,” and “X-Man.”  Of the three, this was the one […]

What I like most about the “Hawaiian Dick” series is that writer B. Clay Moore and artist Steven Griffin (with Nick Derrington) do such a great job of capturing the time and place of Hawaii in the 50’s.  The island atmosphere, the clothing style, the low-fi feel of the times — it’s all here.  They’ve […]