Above-the-Board Recommendation: Scotch McTiernan vs. The Forces of Evil The team who brought you the flashback issues of “Deadpool” that everyone loved, co-writers Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, and artist Scott Koblish, team up for three adventures that pit the titular stoner soldier against the evils plaguing modern society.  Said evils being America’s war on […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DCeased:  War of the Undead Gods HC This was an easy choice to make.  “War of the Undead Gods” is the concluding chapter to writer Tom Taylor and artist Trevor Hairsine’s epic alternate-universe superpowered zombie saga and the stakes are now cosmic.  While things ended on a positive note as Earth was cleansed […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men:  Before the Fall – Sinister Four #1 I honestly can’t say that I’m crazy about the idea of an “X-Men” event called “Fall of X.”  Just from the name alone.  Mutants have spent so much time getting the short end of the stick that it was both a revelation and a relief […]

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, […]