After taking care of the Insomniac and helping sweep his fate under the rug for the Continuum, Frankie “Playtime” Follis is now the new queenpin of Redport.  Working with partner-in-crime (and love) Scalpel and new henchman Backdrop, she’s turning what used to be the worst slum in Twilight City into a place its residents can […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: What’s the Furthest Place From Here? Vol. 4 After three volumes it’s time to answer the biggest mystery of this series:  Why weren’t issues #7-9 collected after vol. 1?  If the solicitation for this volume is any indication, it’s because these were side-stories illustrated by people other than regular artist Tyler Boss.  Now, […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Gotham City:  Year One I guess I feel obligated to pick the softcover edition of this story as I just ordered the hardcover from Amazon in a “Get 3 For the Price of 2” deal.  (What were the others?  “Batman:  Hush” in paperback and “Superman vol. 1:  Supercorp” in hardcover.  All of these […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman vol. 2:  The Paper Yeah, this feels too easy.  There’s some other stuff I was considering for this spot – first volumes of relaunched X-titles, the climax of Ewing’s “Venom” – but when it came down to it, this is the one I wanted to read the most.  […]

How is Franklin Richards handling being a normal kid these days?  Better than you’d think because he’s not actually any less normal than this future shaper of worlds used to be.  He just hides it better these days so that he can keep being a kid while also keeping an eye out for potential world-ending […]

Lori’s found herself a new foster home and her new parents are promising to get her a cat.  Sounds great, right?  Well, Lori has been through this kind of thing enough to know that the promise of a cat usually doesn’t pan out – and that’s before she wakes up one morning to find out […]

“Usagi” is back at Dark Horse and all is right with the world.  I exaggerate as the Rabbit Ronin’s adventures at IDW were unchanged in style and quality from when they were at his previous publisher.  That being said, creator Stan Sakai has decided to ring in “Usagi’s” return at Dark Horse in a big […]

Vol. 2 of this series decided to take a more difficult path as it traced the struggles of multiple characters doing a lot of different things, rather than the focused group activity of the Academy kids in vol. 1.  That’s what it looks like vol. 3 will be doing as it picks up again with […]

I mentioned very recently that the penultimate volume of Greg Pak’s run on “Darth Vader” did a really good job of building up to its climax.  Moreso than in this title, even.  That’s mainly because Soule isn’t doing any buildup here.  Vol. 8 IS the climax of his run.  After seven volumes, it has finally […]