Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman vol. 4:  One Last Day As if I could put anything else here after giving the top spot to this title in my Best of 2025 podcast.  It’s not just that I’m looking forward to seeing how Hickman wraps up his Spider-saga, or the fact that I’m expecting […]

Shauna Wickle is on vacation!  She’s borrowed her Uncle Jim’s houseboat and is sailing downriver in search of some good memories.  However, after she’s distracted by charming bad-boy Bryn, Shauna winds up damaging the boat and now needs to get a job to pay for repairs.  Fortunately for her, Bryn’s mom owns a fabric store […]

Before I get into the review of “Redcoat” vol. 2 proper, let me tell you a bit about “Revenger.”  This was an anime series that Steve and I watched a few years back that has generally been forgotten by anime fandom.  It was about a group of bishounen in a port town in feudal Japan […]

Tariq Geiger, Nate the Nuclear Knight, Barney the two-headed dog, and Zigzag the three-eyed zebra have been on a mission for a while now.  They’ve been looking for Lewiston:  the home of Ash Arden, a glowing person like Geiger who was reportedly cured of their nuclear powers.  They finally arrive there, after picking up an […]

DC’s Absolute Universe thunders on with the release of the next wave of titles: “Absolute Green Lantern,” “Absolute Flash,” and this one written by Deniz Camp and illustrated by Javier Rodriguez.  I won’t be talking about “Absolute Flash” in the near future because its writer, Jeff Lemire, has exhausted my patience regarding his superhero work.  […]

This is an updating of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” for the modern era from writer Tom King and artist Peter Gross.  It features some truly lovely art from Gross, not just rich in detail, but in expressiveness.  His characters may be animals, but they emote as convincingly as any human with the bravery, humor, cowardice, […]

Helen Grovsenor may be the only daughter of a wealthy archaeologist, but she has her own struggles all the same.  As a mixed-race daughter of an Egyptian woman and an English man she’s always struggled to fit in, with those around her appreciating her connections more than anything else.  That all changes one day in […]

It took me a while (and an Amazon sale) to get onboard with the “G.I. Joe” side of the Energon Universe.  While “Void Rivals” and “Transformers” had made nods to it in the past, it was easy enough to put off actually reading the miniseries that preceded the ongoing title early on.  When it became […]

In the aftermath of “Venom War,” Meridus was defeated, Venom was separated from Dylan Brock and disappeared, and Eddie Brock and Carnage were both grievously injured.  Sensing that Eddie had too much to live for, Carnage offered to bond with him so long as he’d provide victims for the symbiote every so often.  Eddie agreed […]

It finally happened:  Doctor Doom has taken over the world!  Now that this has happened, the Fantastic Four are going to… keep their heads down and try to manage what he throws at them as best as they can?  Maybe things are different in the main “One World Under Doom” series, but they’re not taking […]