Above-the-Board Recommendation: Beasts of Burden Omnibus If there’s one thing that bugs me about the solicitation for this omnibus collection of this series, it would be the fact how the four volumes collected here are described as “all four” and not “the first four.”  Which implies that we won’t be getting any more of Evan […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: John Constantine, Hellblazer:  Dead in America Longtime readers will know that while I was really looking forward to Simon Spurrier’s take on Constantine, it didn’t wrap up in an enjoyable way.  While vol. 1 delivered on the goods I expect from a “Hellblazer” series, the finale of vol. 2 shows us just how […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Holy Roller Professional bowler Levi Cohen is forced to stop being one in order to care for his ailing father back in his hometown. Problem is that when he gets there, Levi finds out that it’s been overrun by neo-nazis.  What’s a former pro bowler to do in this kind of situation?  […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimates by Deniz Camp vol. 1:  Fix the World They live in a world gone wrong.  Where many of the superheroes that it was meant to have never came to be.  They’re going to fix that and Tony Stark, Captain America, Doom, Thor, and Sif have been working to create a network of […]

Jonah, a former Space Marine, and his Zozobian friend Alphius are just a couple of space truckers trying to make ends meet the best they can in a harsh galaxy.  That’s doubly hard when Jonah is living with a price on his head for desertion after his last mission as a marine turned into a […]

Michael Verardi shot and murdered the serial killer responsible for the death of his on the footsteps of the courthouse where the trial was supposed to begin.  Now he’s in jail for murder and currently part of a prisoner transport to another facility in the Colorado mountains in the middle of a blizzard.  When their […]

He’s had a lengthy run on “Batman.”  He’s also done a really good “Superman” miniseries.  Now writer Tom King completes his DC Trinity trifecta with his and artist Daniel Sampere’s first volume of the ongoing “Wonder Woman” series.  It’s also off to a great start too as the creators have found a worthy adversary to […]

Detective Sebastina Blank is one of the most brilliant homicide detectives around, having caught multiple killers over the years.  However, she’s currently facing her most challenging case as she tracks down the murderer known only as the Gray Water Killer.  Things are so bad that the FBI has even sent in an agent to help […]

Last time, Eddie Brock went into the past with Doctor Doom and got an idea of what his future holds.  His son Dylan also found a potential partner in Bren Waters, current host to the Toxin symbiote, son of Alchemax employee Ozkhar Waters, and target of the Noname terrorist organization.  It’s that last bit which […]

It’s a new original graphic novel from the team of writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips!  That should be reason enough for celebration, given their track record over the years, right?  You may recall that I didn’t think their last effort, “Where the Body Was,” turned out to be all that great.  A story […]