Val has just been stood up by her date as she sits in her seat at a local movie theater.  Before she can be too disappointed by this, tragedy strikes and now she’s dead.  She’s also not moving on to wherever souls go after they die as she’s now just a free-floating apparition who can […]

In the story of Joan Petersen and her quest for true love, there’s one clear villain here:  The Cowboy.  I mean, how else are we supposed to feel about this masked marauder who shows up whenever it looks like she’s found a man to love and then shoots her dead.  Seems pretty clear cut to […]

In the previous volume, Lore managed to end the universe.  Now the crew of the Theseus has to deal with the repercussions, the most immediate of which is their escape into fluidic space and taking on its vicious inhabitants.  After that, everyone who remains will have to confront the fact that there’s nothing left for […]

Are six-issue miniseries the new twelve for writer Tom King?  After doing several maxiseries to both good (“Mister Miracle”) and middling (“Adam Strange”) effect the man has been writing shorter ones focusing on specific characters.  “Best of the Best” is the latest one of these and it features a character who’s shown up in a […]

In 1989 the whole world experienced what would be called The Second Summer of Love when an alien arrived on Earth and proceeded to do her best to make everyone truly happy.  It was great!  Right up until it wasn’t after the alien succumbed to its own impossibly high standards.  The world survived thanks to […]

After surviving Amanda Waller’s absolute effort to bring them to heel, the superheroes of the DCU realized one thing:  The Justice League needed to return, and do it bigger than ever.  Rather than just keep it to the Big Seven and whoever else was handy, the net has been cast far and wide to allow […]

Proving to be the British comics anthology revival that could, “Battle Action” has reached its third volume of strips featuring characters from the title’s original run.  While Garth Ennis wrote the entirety of the first volume, the second saw new creators, and one great old one, tackle these strips to mostly good results.  That trend […]

Christmastime at the Parker Household was going really well.  Right up until it was revealed that Peter’s suit had been masquerading as him, while the man himself and Harry Osborn had been captured by Kraven the Hunter.  Now the two are being set loose in the Savage Land for the Hunter’s amusement in what will […]

Their animated series may have reached its end, but the adventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos continue (before the end of said series).  And what better way to do that with their investigation of a Federation ghost ship that has returned from an area of space encountered by the original Enterprise on one […]

By the time the first Ultimate Universe got around to doing an “Ultimate Wolverine” miniseries, the character was already dead and it focused on his son Jimmy Hudson.  I, and a lot of other people, didn’t bother with it because who the hell cares about Jimmy Hudson?  Marvel isn’t making that mistake this time around […]