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Breathers

How’s this for a setup:  Imagine a world where the air is poisonous and everyone has to wear a special mask in order to breathe while they’re outdoors.  It’s all due to some vaguely explained accident decades ago and nobody’s been able to find a cure for it yet.  In the meantime, people have adjusted […]

Local Man vol. 1: Heartland

Jack Xavier had it all as Crossjack.  A superhero with the power to be skilled with whatever weapon he uses (except bows) he had fame and fortune as a member of the superhero team known as Third Gen.  Until it all came crashing down and he was kicked off the team.  Without anywhere else to […]

Star Wars: Darth Vader by Greg Pak vol. 6 — Return of the Handmaidens

Pak’s run on this title has been uneven, to say the least.  While the first volume didn’t impress, the second one did, and the quality has been seesawing back and forth between these posts ever since.  Never quite good enough to stand alongside previous “Darth Vader” series, yet never bad enough to get me to […]

Eight Billion Genies

Charles Soule and Ryan Browne have been working independently and together in the comics industry for a while now.  They’ve produced some good comics together and independently over the years, but neither has had what you would call a breakout success.  By that I mean a series that everyone starts talking about, that generates multiple […]

Vanish vol. 2

I wasn’t quite sold on the first volume of this new series from writer Donny Cates and artist Ryan Stegman.  While the writer has shown in the past that he’s usually very good about grounding fantastical situations in relatable human concerns, his efforts in vol. 1 didn’t really connect.  Stegman may have delivered some great […]

X-Men by Gerry Duggan vol. 4

Duggan touches upon another story idea set up by Jonathan Hickman in this volume.  Specifically, what happened to the Brood after Broo ate the King Egg and became their leader?  He’s been having them feed upon bad people in the cosmos to sate their bloodlust, but that doesn’t exactly square with the sight of a […]

DC Solicitation Sneaks: January 2024

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman:  The Adventures Continue vol. 3 “Batman:  The Animated Series” did end after 109 episodes, but it didn’t really have a proper ending.  Writers Paul Dini and Alan Burnett look to rectify that here with this final volume of “The Adventures Continue.”  While it’s safe to say that this conclusion isn’t going to […]