Above-the-Board Recommendation: End of Life vol. 1:  What’s Wrongdog? When it was announced that DC would be reviving its Vertigo imprint with an eye towards new, creator-owned titles from teams that had worked together in the past, it wasn’t quite the match made in heaven I was expecting it to be.  I’m all for creator-owned […]

It’s a brand new day for Marvel’s First Family… that’s still in the “One World Under Doom” era.  Due to the corporate synergy that mandates having a new #1 issue of a series out at the same time as a major Marvel movie, “Fantastic Four” found itself in the awkward position of having to relaunch […]

Eddie Brock may have bonded with Carnage to save his own life, but he’s also saved countless lives by keeping the psychotic symbiote in check.  Not that his action didn’t stop that thing’s pathological need to feed, and it’s getting more desperate by the day.  The only solace Eddie has right now are some fractured […]

“Batman:  The Long Halloween” and its follow-up “Dark Victory” are rightly regarded as classics within the character’s canon.  Both maxiseries from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale told year-long stories set within the early days of The Dark Knight’s career as he worked to stop serial killers that were ripping apart Gotham’s underworld.  They […]

Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael are back in New York City.  They each had a rough time getting there, but the important thing is that these brothers are together again, right?  Well, they’re still at each others’ throats over past grievances, and Donatello’s insistence that their deceased father Master Splinter is speaking to them through […]

Four months ago, Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez fell in love.  Then Jennifer had to go home to her “old fashioned” family to wait for when she could see Angelo again.  That chance came when her grandfather fell and injured himself and she readily volunteered to help nurse him for the summer – not too […]

Io and Darryl’s battle continues – inside the Solar Ray!  One fights to destroy it, the other fights to protect it and they’re going to do their best to take out the other guy in the process.  It seems that this conflict has all come down to them.  Until it hasn’t.  With the Federation forces […]

It’s a tale as old as time:  A creator hits it big at Marvel, then goes over to their Distinguished Competition to write the character that started it all.  John Byrne did it back in the 80’s.  Bendis did it more recently.  Now Dan Slott is taking on The Man of Steel in a brand […]

Members of the Super-and-Bat-Families have suffered through a multitude of transformations for various reasons over the years.  This time, Superman and his son Jon, and Batman and his son Damien have all been transformed into corgis because Trinity (age 12) wanted to cheer up Trinity (age 6) by showing a bit of Trinity’s (age 18) […]