WonderCon was dealt a bad hand this weekend as it coincided with the latest storm system to hit Southern California.  Rain?  In SoCal?  I’m as shocked as you are, but storms have been hitting pretty regularly for these past few weekends.  We’ll likely be back to our regularly scheduled drought season next year, though. Bad […]

Hitwoman Jagger Rose and Made Man Valentine Gallo have been through some stuff over the previous volumes.  From being on the run from the Bonavese Family – the Family they were originally a part of – to Valentine finding out he was born to be a snitch for the FBI, to Jagger taking out the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: G.O.D.S. What happens when The Powers That Be meet The Natural Order Of Things?  They get a much-hyped lead-in across multiple titles from an A-List creative team whose series only lasts eight issues before it gets canned.  “G.O.D.S.” represented writer Jonathan Hickman’s efforts to redefine the magical corner of the Marvel Universe and […]

Vol. 16 left off with Nene and Niko descending into the mindspace shared by Clarion and Phobos after their battle shifted from the physical plane to cyberspace.  We don’t catch up with them right away as we’ve also got to check in with Robert as he tells us about his situation in a big ol’ […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rock Candy Mountain Complete This series passed me right by when it came out because its creator wasn’t on my radar at all.  Seven years later and I now look forward to whatever writer/artist Kyle Starks does next.  Looking at the solicitation for this collection of the entire eight-issue series, it’s clear that […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC vs. Marvel Omnibus Believe it or not, DC and Marvel heroes used to meet up on a fairly regular basis before relations froze over at the start of the Joe Quesada/Bill Jemas era at Marvel.  First, Spider-Man met Superman, then the X-Men met the Teen Titans, and before you knew it Batman […]

I know it’s very out of season to talk about an anthology with this title, but it didn’t come back into stock (at a discount) with one of my preferred online retailers until recently.  Still, you could argue that it’s always the season for a collection of stories from Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Becky Cloonan, […]

It’s not easy being Christopher “Peacemaker” Smith these days.  Sure, he may have earned his release from the Suicide Squad, but his former comrades think he’s a degenerate weirdo and don’t want to hang out with him.  He doesn’t have any friends, and the only normal interactions he has with the public involve his surprisingly […]

I’ve always enjoyed these crossover team-ups between the Rabbit Ronin and the Heroes in a Half Shell.  More so because it feels like they represent two storytelling universes that developed independently of each other, but fit together remarkably well.  Sure, the stories they’ve appeared together in have also been fun, but the best one still […]