With “Beyond” as a subtitle to this volume, some of you may be wondering if this has anything to do with the storyline in the same name that was running over in “Amazing Spider-Man.”  The answer to that is “yes” as this picks up in the wake of Miles’ team-up with Ben Reilly against the […]

Vol. 1 left off with Stargazer having departed the World of Two Moons on a quest to find what was missing in his life.  What he didn’t realize was that this was due to his daughter Jink taking his memories of Cutter away in order to ease his anguish.  This has led the white-haired Wolfrider […]

I was expecting a lot from “Event Leviathan,” coming as it was from the creative team of Bendis and Alex Maleev, especially after the solid build-up the writer gave it in “Action Comics.”  The end result of that story was a lot of smoke with no real fire to speak of.  A story that took […]

Marcus King was a mercenary who took on despots around the world and took their money when he could.  Then an operation in Africa went all kinds of bad and left him paralyzed and wanted by the CIA and FBI.  It wasn’t all bad, though.  Afterwards he met this great girl, Soraya, and her Russian […]

Oxel Karnhus is a private eye with Acromegaly.  That’s a condition caused by an overactive pituitary gland which winds up stimulating the growth of bones in your face and extremities.  It’s made his adult life a hard one, but he gets by in this collection of stories written by John Arcudi and illustrated by Dale […]

“Stray Dogs” by writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner was one of last year’s breakout hits at Image.  The Don Bluth-esque look of the art was immediately appealing and offered an appealing misdirection for a dark story about a group of dogs who were starting to suspect that there was something wrong about their […]

Vol. 18 was one of the better volumes in this series in a while, but it also wasn’t the first time this series had delivered a solid start to its latest arc only whiff the finish.  “Punishing Love” delivered the goods early on by giving us a genuinely creepy villain, a serial killer whose daughter […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Wonder Woman:  Earth One Complete Collection Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s three-volume reinvention of Wonder Woman is finally collected in one volume.  They took the story of the character’s departure from Paradise Island to spread its message of loving submission to Man’s World and things go about as well as you could expect.  […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Department of Truth vol. 4:  The Ministry of Lies This is a series that burst out of the gate with a really great first volume, stumbled a bit with a vol. 2 that was only good, and rebounded with a third volume that got things right back on track.  It did this […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immortal X-Men vol. 1 At the end of “Inferno,” in the final digital issue I read, there was a teaser for this series.  So if you’re looking for an “X-Men” book to read in the wake of Jonathan Hickman’s ambitious, game-changing run, then you could do worse than to consider this one.  “Immortal […]