The great thing about the Greek Gods is that their personalities are well-defined yet malleable enough that you can put them into any kind of story in any genre.  Which is how we’re getting the romantic comedy version of the story of Hades and Persephone in “Punderworld” by Linda Sejic (wife of Stjepan, incase you […]

Well, that was quick. Not only is this Hickman’s third proper volume of “X-Men,” but it’s also his last.  The writer had a big three-act plan for the franchise and he decided to walk away after the majority of the creators on the other X-titles decided to stay in the first act.  There doesn’t appear […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: One-Star Squadron #1 (of 6) Mark Russell is a writer who has done a lot of work at DC over the years on titles like “The Flintstones,” “The Snagglepuss Chronicles,” and “The Wonder Twins,” where he takes these old characters and uses them to tell modern satire.  He’s since branched out to doing […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton vol. 1 Trigger Keaton’s action stardom was only equaled by his potential to act like a jerk to everyone around him.  It’s why no one was surprised when he wound up dead with a pool of potential suspects a mile wide and deep.  Taking up the task of […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellions by Zeb Wells vol. 3 While the current line of X-books has generally been entertaining on its own terms, it’s mainly because they’ve been doing familiar superhero stuff quite well with a straightforward dramatic bent.  Well, all of them except for “Hellions.”  This has been a darkly funny, deeply cynical series that […]

The title birds only figure into the first few pages of this volume, but their brief presence is enough to let you know that Magpies are serious business.  It’s enough to convince Bridgette that she needs to find her daughter Mary before her dalliance with Merlin and Arthur begets more violence and tragedy.  Which is […]

At the beginning of this volume we get the story of the Phoenix of 1,000,000 B.C., with some impressively burly art from Dale Keown.  At the end of this volume we see Blade transition out of the Avengers into a job he was born to do with some less-impressive, but still nice art from Luca […]

Aphra eventually managed to give ruthless collector Ronen Tagge what was coming to him in the previous volume.  Unfortunately this also managed to put her on the radar of Tagge family head, Domina.  Worse still is that Aphra’s actions managed to impress Domina, and now she wants the good doctor to do a job for […]

Emma Elliot is in the midst of an epically bad breakup.  The kind where she’s been curled up in her bed for the past two weeks before some inspired needling from her roommate finally gets her to rejoin society again.  However, it isn’t until she meets a mysterious man named Bob that Emma finally has […]