Above-the-Board Recommendation: Thrawn:  Alliances I’ve become more selective about what “Star Wars” comics I buy from Marvel over the years simply because they publish too many to make keeping up with all of them an affordable and/or  reasonable proposition.  However, when their publication schedule did make such a thing feasible, one of the comics I […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation Feral vol. 1 Elsie, Patch, and Lord Fluffy Britches are three cats who have spent most of their lives as indoor pets.  That suddenly changes one day when they find themselves outside and on the run from all manner of beasts during a nightmarish rabies outbreak.  Now, instead of having to worry about […]

This is the start of a new series written by Rick Remender.  Does that mean we’re getting something that’s good and makes me want to read more?  Promising but with issues?  Depressing enough to get me to stop reading the series after one volume?  Or something that shows the writer trying to evolve his established […]

When Lady Haste was arrested for attempted murder, it was thought to be the beginning of the end for organized crime in Stellar City.  That turned out to not be the case at all as a series of gangland slayings have shown that control of the underworld is still very much up for grabs.  This […]

Humanity has lost.  Vampires now rule the Earth under their king and their superhuman army is devoted to rounding up the remaining humans to serve as their cattle.  As well as rooting out any remaining resistance, of which there is plenty.  Batgirl, Black Canary, John Constantine, Steel, Green Arrow, Jayna – the remaining Wonder Twin […]

The time is 1875.  The place is Ft. Lehane, Texas, and Montgomery Enfield, his gang, and their families are living their best lives right now.  The town’s law enforcement is lax enough that they’re able to do whatever they want without fear of any serious repercussions.  Until shortly after they’ve made their latest “withdrawal” from […]

He may have had an 85-issue run on “Batman” proper and a twelve-issue follow-up on top of that, but it seems that Tom King just can’t quit the Dark Knight.  In addition to the “Killing Time” caper and the “Penguin” series, the writer and his frequent artistic collaborator, Mitch Gerads, serialized this four part story […]

With a title like that, you probably already know whether or not this story is going to be for you.  “Predator vs. Wolverine” is exactly what it says it is.  The only thing you might not expect is that it’s a story of the title characters fighting each other over the decades.  From the post-”Origin” […]

Wherein Superman, and his handpicked version of The Authority, go to Warworld to free it and its subjects from Mongul’s iron grasp.  That’s what this 700+ page collection boils down to and if you’ve read a story where the Man of Steel goes off to save a group of people or a civilization from totalitarian […]