Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sandman Universe:  Nightmare Country vol. 1 I’m putting this collection here because it’s doing something that I’d honestly like to see more publishers do:  Offer the paperback edition at the same time as the hardcover.  Normally you’d have to wait several months for the paperback edition of a collected edition originally published […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Do A Powerbomb! I know that I gave this spot to the first issue of this miniseries when it was solicited.  The simple fact is that there’s nothing I’d rather read more in this round of solicitations than the collected edition of Daniel Warren Johnson’s latest miniseries.  While Johnson is easily one of […]

All Paprika wanted was to gain a little experience in the ways of romance to impress Za’atar, the big-shot movie producer who’s making the massively successful book she edited, “Spice it Up,” into a movie.  The problem is that the person she decided to let help her with this, grade-A himbo delivery boy Dill, has […]

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 […]