No, not the entirety of writer Dan Abnett and artist I.N.J. Culbard’s series from 2000 A.D., just one volume of it.  Along with several other volumes of comics that have been lingering in my To Review pile from last year.  If you’re thinking that not only was I struggling to come up with a clever […]

Things were looking hopeless for Sam and Dun after they were betrayed in their struggle to wake their daughter Penny and bring her back to the real world.  Fortunately their daughter turned out to have allies they never considered and these parents now have a fighting chance.  Which meant that vol. 2 was all set […]

Claire Connell has brought the legacy of “Adventureman” to the modern era and her life has been all the better for it.  This legacy comes with some ghosts of its own – literal ones, in fact!  When Claire has an encounter with some unruly spirits in the subway, she realizes that it’s her duty to […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Poison Ivy vol. 7:  Amuse-Bouche Vol. 6 (review forthcoming) ended on something of a cliffhanger as the least plot-armored member of the principal cast – Janet From HR – was taken off into the swamp to answer for her betrayal of the title character.  Pamela Isely has mellowed a bit over the course […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Barrier Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin do great work together.  Everything they’ve done up to this point, “Doctor Strange:  The Oath,” “The Private Eye,” and “The Walking Dead:  The Alien,” is well worth checking out by any comics fan.  “Barrier” is their most recent collaboration and it’s taken a little bit longer […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: HULK SMASH EVERYTHING We’ve known for a while that Hulk is really strong, but anyone can beat up a superhero.  What about going back in time to beat up on all the dinosaurs?  Or taking on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy?  Or what about who he’s going to […]

I thought I knew what I was going to get with this series.  Al Ewing spent a good amount of time at Marvel tackling its cosmic side through series like “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “S.W.O.R.D.,” “X-Men:  Red,” and through events like “Empyre” and “The Last Annihilation.”  So when he was announced as taking on the […]

From one perspective, the title story is as solid a story as you’d expect from this series.  Usagi, Yukichi, and Gen wind up in a village renowned for its plums and the pickled variety, umeboshi, that are produced from them.  However, someone is currently trying to ruin it through fire and murder, leading the shogun […]

In June of 1962, convicts Frank Morris, Clarence Algin, and John Algin did the impossible:  They escaped from Alcatraz.  What happened to them next is lost to history, but in this story only Frank and Clarence made it back to the mainland.  Their plan was to meet up with their contact and then go to […]