“Year One” is a title that holds no small amount of significance within the DC Universe.  It was first (and arguably bes), used to illustrate the start of Batman’s crime-fighting career back in the 80’s from writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzuchelli.  The title has since been used to showcase the early days of […]

Jon Kent may have taken down Henry Bendix and saved Gamorra from his totalitarian reign, but now he’s about to face down an even worse threat.  You see, back when he was traveling the multiverse with another version of his father Jor-El, he wound up trapped for years at the mercy of Earth-2’s evil Superman, […]

Maika, Kippa, and Ren have all found themselves back in the known world after their jaunt off to Golga in the previous volume.  You know how these things go, though:  Spend a few days spirit traveling to an ancient planet full of eldritch beings, come back and find out that a whole year has passed […]

I don’t think anyone would doubt that Kevin Eastman has had an interesting life.  Co-creator of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” he and co-creator Peter Laird took a fringe black-and-white comic based on the hot trends of the time into the comics mainstream.  Then with the animated series and live action movies from the late […]

Captain Benjamin Sisko:  You’ve returned from the Great Beyond to captain Starfleet’s most advanced ship with an all-star roster and to avert a Klingon Civil War!  What are you going to do now?  The answer, as put by Admiral Sato, is “One for Starfleet.”  The Tzenkethi are a race whose appearance can best be described […]

After taking care of the Insomniac and helping sweep his fate under the rug for the Continuum, Frankie “Playtime” Follis is now the new queenpin of Redport.  Working with partner-in-crime (and love) Scalpel and new henchman Backdrop, she’s turning what used to be the worst slum in Twilight City into a place its residents can […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: What’s the Furthest Place From Here? Vol. 4 After three volumes it’s time to answer the biggest mystery of this series:  Why weren’t issues #7-9 collected after vol. 1?  If the solicitation for this volume is any indication, it’s because these were side-stories illustrated by people other than regular artist Tyler Boss.  Now, […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Gotham City:  Year One I guess I feel obligated to pick the softcover edition of this story as I just ordered the hardcover from Amazon in a “Get 3 For the Price of 2” deal.  (What were the others?  “Batman:  Hush” in paperback and “Superman vol. 1:  Supercorp” in hardcover.  All of these […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman vol. 2:  The Paper Yeah, this feels too easy.  There’s some other stuff I was considering for this spot – first volumes of relaunched X-titles, the climax of Ewing’s “Venom” – but when it came down to it, this is the one I wanted to read the most.  […]