It was only a matter of time after completing the “Mage” trilogy.  Matt Wagner has now returned to his other defining series, “Grendel.”  What started off as a story of how evil and madness perpetuate through blood and generations evolved into a story of how the representation of these ideas came to dominate mankind in […]

Jenny Tetsuo used to enjoy following in the footsteps of her father.  Mega Commander Zero was the pride of the Action Science Police, the world’s foremost specialists on fighting the kaiju threat which continues to the present day.  Then things went bad, she washed out of the force, and now spends her days getting loaded […]

When Jonathan Hickman had Nightcrawler hit upon the idea of  establishing a mutant religion, Si Spurrier seemed like the right writer to follow up on it.  After all, he’s a writer who has thrived on finding unexpected stories to tell utilizing the characters owned by the Big Two.  In a move that is both surprising […]

In the future, there will be robots.  We’ll also have ceded all control over our lives to them, to the point where humans will no longer be needed to work (except as hairdressers) and they’ll have to rely on their assigned robot guardian to act as their breadwinner.  That’s the situation the Walters family has […]

“Usagi Yojimbo” has been around for over thirty years now.  You’d think that at this point the character’s backstory would be pretty well filled in and that creator Stan Sakai wouldn’t feel the need to add anything more to it.  If there’s one thing that binds all of the stories in this collection together, it’s […]

Sam Sugar is a former dirty intergalactic cop.  That “former” only applies to the cop part, as he’s still plenty dirty, doing odd jobs for the superbeing known as the Eternal Empress.  His latest involves tracking down her husband, the Storm King’s, most famous illegitimate offspring:  Intergalactic pop star Zephyr Monsoon.  Why?  Because Zephyr has […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ghost Cage What do you do if you’re a brilliant scientist who revolutionized energy generation, who now controls all of it on Earth, and whose headquarters have now come under attack from terrorist looking to take it all from him?  You send out your ultimate peacekeeping solution to take out these terrorists as […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Joker Presents:  A Puzzlebox HC The Riddler is dead and only one person knows the truth behind his death.  Unfortunately for Commissioner Gordon and the rest of the GCPD, that person is the least reliable witness possible.  So it’s up to them to figure out what truths (if any) the Joker has […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: A.X.E.:  Death to the Mutants #1 (of 3) Yes, this event tie-in miniseries is here mainly on the strength of its title alone.  It’s also being written by event maestro Kieron Gillen with art from Guiu Villanova, so it’s likely to actually be a good read as well.  Though the title seems pretty […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Air vol. 1 Usually the way it works is that when a creator hits the big time, such as how G. Willow Wilson did with “Ms. Marvel,” there’s a rush to reprint their earlier work to capitalize on their status as the new hotness.  That didn’t happen in Wilson’s case as the four-volume […]