What was Ethan getting up to while his partner/friend Anna was investigating a potentially haunted house and getting stabbed for her troubles?  He was up north in the San Francisco area trying to track down the missing wife of a son of some friendly neighbors who did him a solid once.  While Ethan is no […]

The last time we saw Maika Halfwolf, she was even more screwed than usual! Poisoned by her lover, Tuya, who is finally making good on her directive to deliver Maika and Zinn to the Dusk Court. This is all so that the Ancients living there can extract the power that Zinn commands without having to […]

Soule’s attempt to make Crimson Dawn into a thing in the “Crimson Reign” miniseries left something to be desired.  While not a bad idea in theory, the miniseries was hamstrung by the implication that we know it’s going to end badly for Qi’ra and her comrades, as well as a general lack of surprise in […]

The first “Hellfire Gala” was a very satisfying event.  It had a unique structure where all of the currently running X-titles showed the event from their cast’s perspective, while the “Planet-Sized X-Men” one-shot provided the unifying centerpiece for the storyline.  Better still was that it also provided a major change to the status quo of […]

Friday Nov 11, 2022 Gerry Duggan’s second volume of “X-Men” rolls along in much the same way as the first one did.  That is to say half of the issues collected here revolve around done-in-one stories with some subplots ticking over between issues.  Which is how we find out about the Secret Origin of Captain […]

Easton Newburn is a private investigator in New York who investigates the crimes that the police can’t or won’t solve.  That’s not exactly hyperbole as his clientele almost exclusively consists of members from the major crime families of the city.  So what do they do when an ex-member of the Italian Mafia steals ten kilos […]

This volume kicks off with another over-the-top concept from the writer.  That of an Avengers Tower at the far end of the universe manned by an individual known only as Avenger Prime.  Someone who maintains an army of Deathloks capable of traversing the multiverse to warn of and neutralize threats to it.  It’s the former […]

Call me a glutton for punishment, but I decided to pick up the second volume of this series.  Vol. 1 of Keanu Reeves’ first comic, with Matt Kindt doing the actual heavy lifting as the writer and Ron Garney providing the art, didn’t impress me.  It came off as a very self-serious story of the […]

Vol. 1 of “Arrowsmith” was a well-done melding of high fantasy and World War I tropes.  Predictable as Fletcher Arrowsmith’s introductions to the horrors of the Great War were, they still felt fresh thanks to the smart worldbuilding from writer Kurt Busiek and slick art from Carlos Pacheco.  Vol. 2 continues the fine work from […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: A.X.E.:  Judgment Day & Companion Kieron Gillen once said that he’d only return to the Marvel Universe if he was given the keys to take on a major storytelling role within it.  Something comparable to what Jonathan Hickman was doing with the “X-Men” at the time.  Marvel took the writer up on that […]