Above-the-Board Recommendation: Usagi Yojimbo Saga:  Legends Dark Horse’s omnibus reprinting of everything “Usagi Yojimbo” finally reaches the stuff that’s not directly part of the ongoing series.  I’m talking about the first three “Space Usagi” stories, the end-of-the-saga miniseries “Senso,” the color OGN “Yokai” and the color short “Gagged.”  All of that is collected here along […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immortal Thor vol. 1:  All Weather Turns to Storm It’s nothing new for Marvel to put the adjective of a successful series in front of another title that was otherwise unrelated to it.  Witness “Immortal X-Men” following in the wake of “Immortal Hulk.”  It’s much less common for them to append that adjective […]

Image takes a cue from Dark Horse and stops indicating cover prices for everything solicited this month.  How much longer until Marvel and DC follow suit? Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Weather Man vol. 3 #1 (of 7) This has been a long time coming.  Vol. 2 of the series ended on a cliffhanger as Nathan Bright, […]

With the Mignolaverse having transitioned over to hardcovers for its collected editions, I realize that not every title justifies that treatment or cover price.  That said, if one that’s written entirely by Mike Mignola and illustrated partly by him, but mostly by Ben Stenbeck, can’t justify the format, then what can?  That’s the case we […]

The father-and-son duo of Nocturnus and Galahad were once the pride of St. Barrington.  Fighting against the many villains who inhabited the city, they gave hope to a terrorized populace.  This was the case until Galahad got fed up with his father’s controlling nature and revealed their identities on national TV.  From there, the son […]

Jerri Bartman has not been having a good time of late.  First she came back home after her co-anchor gig at a Cleveland news station went bad.  Then the local news reporting job her brother got her at their hometown news station goes up in flames after she makes a spectacle of herself exposing shenanigans […]

Why “Hulk Planet?”  Because it’s a planet inhabited by Hulks.  Or rather, the castoffs created by the alternate universe Bruce Banner from the first volume of the series.  Their growth was accelerated by the Banner we know after he harnessed all of the Gamma from the climax of that arc and shunted it there.  The […]

Morrie “Muddy” Davis has just put down his pencil.  After sixty years of drawing the “Junkyard Joe” comic strip, about some army grunts and a robot eternally going through basic training, he’s finally retired.  While the thought of a robot going through basic training may seem like a fantastic sci-fi concept, it’s based on something […]

This is the concluding chapter to the saga that began in “Fray of the Gods” and “Play of the Gods” and if you’re worried that you might be missing something by jumping in with this volume, don’t.  All you need to know is that the title character’s antics over the past two volumes have seen […]

The American is angry.  I’m not talking about the general public of this country, I’m talking about the leader of the superhuman team known as Enola Gay.  The team has been the tip of the spear for our country’s foreign policy since the First Iraq War and the American has been going along with it […]