Above-the-Board Recommendation: Kneel Before Zod This gets the spot less because I’m expecting it to be good, but because I’m letting it serve as a referendum on the man who’s writing it.  Joe Casey has delivered entertaining comics in the past like “Wildcats” because he didn’t let them be chained down by superhero convention.  This […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Transformers vol. 2:  Transport to Oblivion John and I talked about vol. 1 when it came out, and we were both pretty impressed by it.  Even though it was essentially another retelling of the familiar Transformers origin, there were still enough fun and interesting details to the story that entertained the both of […]

Garth Ennis wrote a miniseries a few years back called “A Walk Through Hell.”  It was meant to come off as a horror series about the problems society was (and still is) experiencing, but the only thing he managed to successfully convey through it was his utter despondence at the current state of humanity.  Now […]

It’s a new day in Metropolis.  Not only has Superman returned to protect the city full-time, but he’s brought his family along with him.  In addition to Lois Lane and Jon Kent, Kara “Supergirl” Zor-El, Connor “Superboy” Kent, and Kong Kenan the Chinese Superman are on hand to fend off whatever new supervillain threatens the […]

This was the last thing Bendis did at DC before decamping to Dark Horse with his Jinxworld imprint.  I still have to pick up the last volume of his “Justice League” run and the second volume of “Naomi” (both in softcover), but I’m having serious doubts about doing so after reading this story.  If you […]

It’s good to be Billy Batson.  The World’s Mightiest Mortal gets to spend his days using his superpowers for fun and saving people, with lots of approval from a grateful public.  Sure he still has to attend school as Billy to keep himself humble and informed, but when the trade-off is that he can rescue […]

In the year 4040 a parallel dimension was discovered by humans.  Named “The Bridge,” it was initially mapped out by drones before two human cartographers, Jacob and Elena, went in to start exploring it themselves.  Contact with them was eventually lost, but not before their psychic daughter, Adley, learned that they were taken by an […]

“Coda” was a maxiseries by writer Simon Spurrier and artist Matias Bergara that didn’t set the world on fire when it came out, but was generally enjoyed by everyone who read it.  Yours truly included.  It also ended its run in a way that wrapped up the story well and didn’t leave any loose ends […]

New York City may be Spider-Man’s home turf, but there’s a new wall-crawler in town these days!  Or rather, a creepy-crawler since doesn’t actually crawl up walls, but teleport (BAMF!) up and through them as he pleases.  Yes, Nightcrawler has now adopted a superhero persona while all of mutanity is on the run from Orchis.  […]

Daniel “Dizzy” Baker is a journalist who’s stuck covering boring weird stuff such as whether a glowing lake in Virginia is representative of something greater in the universe.  What he’d rather be doing is investigating the Clergymen, a reputed group of terrorists who are connected to a number of violent acts of vandalism but no […]