Everyone knows how the Suicide Squad works.  You’ve got your supervillains and/or antiheroes doing high-risk jobs for the government for a chance at reducing their sentences.  Assuming they survive, of course.  The appeal lies in seeing what these (generally) bad people will do to make it out alive and there have been plenty of good […]

Batman is dead.  So is the Joker.  They both died on Fool’s Night ten years ago and Selina Kyle wound up in prison.  Now she’s finally out and has returned to a Gotham she barely recognizes.  Costumed vigilantes have been outlawed.  Bat-themed police patrol the streets.  Cameras and security systems scrutinize every citizen’s actions.  All […]

Vol. 1 left off with Jenny agreeing to go into the Action Science Police’s custody after she got her hands on her father’s journal.  That was all for the greater good in the fight against kaiju.  At least, that’s what the ASP’s Director Santo tells her after she’s had a chance to work out some […]

Vol. 4 ended with Sabe acknowledging a piece of information that should’ve signed her death warrant:  She knows that Darth Vader was once Anakin Skywalker.  That the Dark Lord doesn’t kill her outright is likely down to the fact that she’s got Padme’s face, and is offering him a chance to prove that her queen […]

Things were bad when we last saw the good Doctor, even by her usual standards.  She and Sana had finally caught up with Kho Fon Farrus and their pursuit of the Spark Eternal, only for the legendary artifact to possess Aphra instead.  Now the Doctor is a prisoner in her own mind as an intelligence […]

The sub-titular organization of this volume is the Russian answer to the Department of Truth.  At least, they were until Lee Harvey Oswald was finally able to orchestrate the downfall of the Soviet Union in the early 90’s.  Its leader, Grigori, never forgave  him for it and when Black Hat came knocking at his door, […]

Prince Helgir has a problem.  He’s just come into possession of the Eye of Odin after a frost giant attacked his village.  Now he has to return it to its rightful owner, Mimir the Frost Giant King, before the next full moon or else he’ll suffer a painful death involving boils and decay.  Most of […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Junkyard Joe vol. 1 “From the explosive pages of GEIGER comes JUNKYARD JOE!” is what the solicitation text tells us.  I’m still wondering why we’re getting a story about the combat robot Geiger fought in the final issue rather than another volume of his series.  Writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank have […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Avengers Assemble Even if individual stories in this run haven’t worked as well as they should’ve, I’ve been invested in the overall story that Jason Aaron has been telling since the start.  That’s because he’s found a new villain be the big bad for an “Avengers” title that I’ve not seen before:  Mephisto.  […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Den vol. 1 HC This round of solicitations is filled with hardcover and softcover collections of new material that feel overpriced.  This is a new problem for the publisher and it’s something that’s going to have me start picking up a lot of their stuff when it comes on sale through their app.  […]