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 […]

The titular organization is made up of some familiar faces to the Mignolaverse, Sir Edward Gray and Sarah Jewell chief among them, who met in a London pub late in the 19th Century to discuss supernatural goings-on around town.  It’s these adventures that Simon Bruttenholm has decided to educate his nephew Trevor and his adopted […]

It took a while for this volume to arrive.  Long enough to make me worry that it wouldn’t be coming at all.  Which would have been very disappointing after the events of vol. 3 set up a major change to the status quo in the world of “Farmhand.”  No longer was Jedediah Jenkins overseeing the […]

It took a while, but Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ much-loved series has finally made its return to kick off its second half.  Four years may seem like a long time between volumes, but when you’re like me and have spent the last decade waiting for new volumes of “Berserk” and “Black Lagoon” it’s […]

You can also call this “The Night the Lights Went Out in the Marvel Universe,” because that’s the basic premise behind this miniseries.  When a giant robot meant to control universal entropy, but was sealed inside the Earth when it went out of control, starts waking up it’s down to the members of the superhero […]

“Air” is a series that starts off with a woman and a man falling from the sky into the sea.  It doesn’t get less weird from there as we’re properly introduced to the woman, Blythe, an acrophobic flight attendant, as she gets sucked into a conspiracy to change the world.  Threatened by a vigilante group […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immoral X-Men #1 (of 3), Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 (of 3), and Nightcrawlers #1 (of 3) The “Age of Apocalypse” really was the gift that keeps on giving to the “X-Men.”  People thought the idea of canceling all of the currently ongoing “X-Men” books in the 90’s for four months […]