WAR HAS COME TO ARAKKO!  On one side is Genesis, the former ruler of the Arakki people, come to reclaim them from what she, and the whispering Annihilation staff, see as the weaknesses they have incurred on their time in this plane.  On the other are Storm and her Brotherhood, determined to show these mutants […]

Groo ended his last adventure in “Gods Against Groo” stranded out on the ocean with his faithful companion Rufferto.  It’s a rare bit of continuity between stories that doesn’t portend anything longer as he soon finds himself back on dry land, and hungry!  He’s got a craving for seafood, fruits, birds, or any kind of […]

In vol. 3, things left off on a somewhat ominous note which was perfectly primed to take advantage of all the bad stuff that was going to happen at the latest “Hellfire Gala.”  In this volume, we get to pick up on the fallout of that event in some satisfying ways.  What of Charles Xavier, […]

Last time was all the setup for the latest “Hellfire Gala” and “Fall of X,” and I mentioned that it didn’t exactly get me excited for the idea of Marvel’s Merry Mutants losing to a secret science organization that hates them.  Again.  So I guess it’s appropriate that the five issues collected here are… perfectly […]

Keanu Reeves’ first comic series “BRZRKR,” co-written with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney, was something of a misfire.  The story of an immortal berserker named Unute was very self-serious and more concerned with dishing up bloody action than an interesting story.  I liked the parts where the story threatened to get weird in […]

I don’t know why this one-shot wasn’t collected with “Ultimate Invasion.”  Maybe it’s because Bryan Hitch didn’t draw it, but this still features very capable work from Stefano Caselli.  I wonder because it contains some story beats that flow directly from that miniseries and directly set up events for the first three “Ultimate” titles.  The […]

Saying “around the turn of the millennium” is something that makes me feel old, but it was when Marvel unleashed their one imprint that genuinely resonated with me:  Ultimate Marvel.  The concept was “What if the Marvel Universe had started today?” and the results took the industry by storm.  “Ultimate X-Men” was a blockbuster right […]

The first volume of this revival of the venerable British series “Battle Action” was an anthology spotlighting a wide swath of characters that featured in it over the years.  All of the stories were written by Garth Ennis who also provided commentary on why each of them mattered to the magazine.  To him as well […]

Not too long ago, Poison Ivy and Metallo showed up in Metropolis and led to a team-up between Superman and Batman (and Robin).  Then Superman got hit with a Red Kryptonite cocktail, causing him to hallucinate and lose control of his powers.  That’s when Niles Caulder and his Doom Patrol had to be called in […]

“Choose.” That’s what the robot at the heart of Radiant Black told Marshall and Nathan at the end of vol. 4 after they tried to figure out what was going wrong with their power.  It turns out that only one of them can be the hero in this story after all and it’s up to […]