Above-the-Board Recommendation: Night Fever HC On one hand, it’s a new OGN from the team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. On the other, it’s the story of a man on a business trip to Europe who finds himself being guided into the hidden world of the night.  A place, we’re told, that is “without […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman:  Lost #1 (of 10) 2023 is the 85th Anniversary of the first appearance of Superman, and DC has decided that the best way to showcase this is… to have the character deal with a massive case of PTSD. No, wait, hear me out. This new maxiseries from writer Christopher Priest and artist […]

The run of writer Peter Milligan and artist Michael Allred on “X-Force” and later “X-Statix” is something that shouldn’t have worked as well as it did.  Taking a hard swerve from the paramilitary mutant action of the former title and turning it into a satire of early 00’s celebrity should’ve been a huge turn-off to […]

Sonny is a former insurance investigator who came across an assassination contract on the Dark Web for the murder of a young boy, Xavier, and his mother.  Due to his intervention, only Xavier’s mom wound up dying and now he and the boy are living off the grid in a commune in rural British Columbia.  […]

Where the volumes of “Star Wars” and “Darth Vader” that bore the “Crimson Reign” subtitle had only nominal ties to the organization and its ongoing storyline, “Doctor Aphra’s” are a bit more substantial.  In part because this volume’s main storyline involves the Ascendant, the Force-worshipping cult who created the thought dowser seen in the previous […]

Edward M. Pressler is the supervillain known as EMP.  His claim to fame is that he blacked out Gotham City five years ago with an electromagnetic blast he generated from within his own body.  EMP spent the next five years in a sensory deprivation tank at Arkham Asylum, until tonight when the order was given […]

Vader made his opposition to the criminal organization known as Crimson Dawn clear in the previous volume.  Now he’s out to purge its influence from the Empire and restore order to it along the way.  He’s going to need some help in order to do this.  By “help” I mean expendable assets who are willing […]

The reasoning behind which Mignolaverse titles get the hardcover treatment becomes easier to identify if this volume is any indication.  All spinoff titles that don’t have Mignola’s direct involvement or aren’t part of an ongoing storyline arrive in softcover.  Everything else gets the hardcover treatment.  Why?  My guess is that it’s down to declining sales […]

Marshall went on an odyssey through time and space to save his best friend in the previous volume.  Something like that should have earned him a little positive karma, right?  The universe thinks otherwise and we find out that he’s still trying to put his life back together after the unintentional six-week disappearance he had […]

The last time we saw Thor, he was reckoning with the death of his father… and the fact that his father’s spirit was now inhabiting Mjolnir.  Things weren’t going well either for Hulk as Bruce Banner had turned his alter-ego’s personality into a rage-powered energy source that allowed him to leave Earth and smash his […]