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 […]

Grant Morrison started writing comics for DC over thirty years ago and, according to him, this is going to be his last.  It’s fitting, then, that it’s a story about Superman confronting his fading powers, his mortality, and deciding what he wants to do with the time left to him.  In the Man of Steel’s […]

What started out as a post-apocalyptic thriller about finding out the truth behind an undersea anomaly mutated into a trans-dimensional adventure as scientist Paul Bailey crossed over into an alien paradise.  A paradise where his former flame Pam was leading a resistance movement, in fact.  Before the revolution can start, however, our protagonists find themselves […]

Vol. 1 gave me some good “Invincible” meets “Power Rangers” vibes as I started reading it, before it served up a twist that expertly subverted my expectations.  It also left off on a cliffhanger that not only had new Marshall, the new Radiant Black, throwing down with his nemesis Radiant Red, but also meeting up […]

Lord Henry Baltimore’s story ended, appropriately enough, with his death.  (Spoilers for a series that wrapped up five years ago.)  However, his monster-hunting, witch-killing legacy lives on thanks to his former comrade-in-arms Sofia Valk, who has assumed his last name and responsibilities.  She’s been living up to them these past thirteen years and with her […]

Everyone had a great time at the Hellfire Gala, right?  Well, everyone who wasn’t the Scarlet Witch.  Her body was found at the end of the event and the identity of her killer was a real mystery.  After X-Factor does a bit of investigating at the start of this miniseries, a prime suspect emerges real […]

In case anyone was wondering just how successful Duggan’s tenure on “Marauders” was, this should answer your question.  As the new writer on “X-Men” he’s effectively setting the direction for the line as a whole; though, I’m sure the expectation is that he’ll play nice with Kieron Gillen whose Quiet Council book “Immortal X-Men” also […]