Above-the-Board Recommendation: Tales From Earth-6:  A Celebration of Stan Lee I’m putting this here for the sheer nerve it represents.  Next year would have been Stan Lee’s 100th birthday and DC is getting the jump on Marvel in celebrating it.  How?  The only way they can:  Revisiting the “Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC […]

You’d think it’d be enough trying to follow up one era-defining Marvel run, while also managing multiple creator-owned titles, for Donny Cates.  As you can see here, it’s not.  After following up Jason Aaron’s legendary run on “Thor,” he’s now taking up the reins on “Hulk” from Al Ewing.  (Who, coincidentally along with Ram V, […]

There is rot in the valley.  First it came from the Bandit King, whose reign of terror cowed the hearts of many, save five who sought the power to defeat him.  Power that came from the martial arts teachings of a lone master who taught them aspects of his art under the condition that they […]

The Ohm Corporation controls all the power in the future and they’ve just come under attack.  It’s holo-A.I. CEO Mr. Karloff has unleashed Sam, a superpowered combat robot, into Ohm Tower to fight his way through the possessed threats representing various forms of energy at each level.  He won’t be doing this alone, however, as […]

Boris Johnson may have screwed over a lot of Britons during his time as prime minister in real life, but he’s got nothing on his fictional counterpart in this series.  That’s because the version of him in “Once & Future” managed to send everyone in his country to the fantasy realm of Otherworld where all […]

Under what conditions could the Eternals be made to utter the dread words of this volume’s subtitle?  Perhaps if the Mad Titan became the new Prime Eternal in order to repair his body and destroy the Earth.  That’s a bad idea even by Druig’s standards, regardless if he thinks he has the means to control […]

It is the future and there are robots!  Also:  Cyborgs, aliens, a maggot-person, and a whole lot of regular dumb-ass humans all caught up in a ridiculous nightmare of way-past-late-stage capitalism.  This is seen through the constant conflicts between dueling cosmic megacorporations P.U.K. and X.I.T. to reach maximum profitability while not missing a chance to […]

They gave us Conan’s first solo epic in his Second Age at Marvel, and now Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar have reunited to give us his last.  With the rights to the character leaving the company again, Marvel has decided to give the character a proper send off by showing us Conan  in his days […]

Tom King has written a lot of comics for DC, but he seems to have a particular affinity for the twelve-issue “maxiseries” format.  Some of these have been great (“The Sheriff of Babylon,” “Mister Miracle”)  One is quite overrated (“The Omega Men”) and another missed the mark (“Strange Adventures”).  There’s also one that I’m not […]

It’s January 24th, 1991, in Medford, Pennsylvania, and three bodies have just found their way to the local coroner’s office.  Detectives Dyer and Harvey have shown up to hear the coroner’s analysis of the bodies and causes of death for James Wells, Shane Wyatt, and Charles “Chuckie” Hayworth.  This serves as a setup for the […]