“Dark Crisis,” or to use its full name “Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths,” was a DC event written by Joshua Williamson and illustrated by Daniel Sampere.  It involved the rest of the DCU trying to save everyone from the evil Pariah’s Dark Army in the wake of the Justice League’s “death.”  I couldn’t be bothered […]

Dan Slott’s tenure on this title was enjoyable, but not the expectation-defying home run I was hoping for after his legendary “Amazing Spider-Man” run.  Ryan North, a talented Eisnter-nominated writer who’s been working at Marvel for a while on “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” and a host of well-received miniseries, is now taking over along with […]

Radiant Black isn’t just one person anymore after the events of vol. 3 – it’s now two.  Or rather, two people, Nathan and Marshall, sharing the suit and the powers.  They’re managing this new setup pretty well, until the powers start glitching out.  That’s a bad thing by itself, and it becomes worse when a […]

This collects three separate one-shots:  “The Secret History of the War on Weed,” “Scotch McTiernan’s Halloween Party” and “Scotch McTiernan’s Holiday Party” from the creative team of co-writers Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, and artist Scott Koblish.  You might recall that they’ve all worked together before on “Deadpool,” with Koblish illustrating the “flashback” issues from […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC vs. Vampires vol. 1 $25 for the first half of this miniseries in hardcover?  No thank you.  $17 for the first half in softcover?  Yeah, I think I can make that work in my head.  As for what it’s about, “DC vs. Vampires” kind of says it all, doesn’t it.  “DCeased” has […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Monstress vol. 8:  Inferno Did I put the previous volume here when it was solicited over a year ago?  I sure did.  That doesn’t stop me from wanting to read this more than anything else in this round of solicitations (and not for a lack of quality picks, as we’ll see).  Vol. 7 […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men:  Blue – Origins #1 No, it’s not a revival of the Cullen Bunn-written “X-Men” series.  Nor is it a throwback to the Gold/Blue teams from the early 90’s.  This is a one-shot which promises the definitive origin of one of the bluest X-Men:  Nightcrawler.  Why is he getting a “definitive” origin here?  […]

While I let my expectations with established talent dictate a lot of what I read, there’s something to be said for picking up a comic from creators I’m unfamiliar with and being entertained by it.  This has happened before and it’ll happen again.  Of course, there’s always the chance that you might wind up with […]

Forest Innman makes his living digitizing old films for a movie studio.  It’s a decent living, but a constantly depressing reminder to him that he never made it as a filmmaker himself.  Then he comes across a canister of film for “Night of the Ghoul.”  Thought to be lost, it was a horror film made […]