The previous volume ended with one of its characters taking a brick to the head during a parade.  Fortunately for the character in question, Shirley is made of stronger stuff.  Literally and figuratively.  Yet she’s still uneasy about her friend Lori’s rise through the ranks at Everything and starting to display some doubts about store […]

They say the course of true love never runs smooth.  Which is likely why the relationships showcased in this volume are certainly doomed, because they’re both going really well.  Amateur BDSM enthusiasts Alan and Ally are having the time of their lives as they explore their respective fetishes in the most adorkable fashion.  Even when […]

Vol. 1 was pretty much everything that I’d hoped a Simon Spurrier-written version of “Hellblazer” would be.  Macabre horror, stories with clever twists, and John Constantine being the one bastard who could always be counted on to come out on top.  For better and for worse.  I was excited to see what the writer had […]

Eddie Brock did the right thing at the end of the previous volume and told the Avengers about the impending threat of Knull.  While they (specifically Iron Man) weren’t happy about it, Eddie’s actions gave them time to figure out a gameplan and for him to take Dylan to someone who can tell them what’s […]

There’s a moment early in this volume that serves as a litmus test as to whether this volume (and really, the series overall) is for you.  Newly-promoted cabal head Sen. Connie Lipshitz is taking ideas from her fellow senators about initiatives to make life better for everyone in the U.S.A.  One senator talks about a […]

Bendis’ first volume of this series was impressive in that it was kind of a mess that still managed to hold itself together and deliver a satisfying climax at its end.  Vol. 2 is more of the same as the Legion faces the fallout from the events of vol. 1 as the team makes not […]

Nora Freud is a spy.  She’s currently enduring the most boring station of her career on Bermuda as she deals with gathering information at endless fundraisers between bouts of weirdness like alien time bandits and ghost Nazi U-boat captains.  Then one day her sister, Connie, a marine cryptozoologist arrives by boat on the island.  Connie […]

Vol. 4 of “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” was meant to be Alan Moore’s big farewell to the comics industry.  He and artist Kevin O’Neill even featured prominently in the epilogue to talk about it.  Which makes “Cinema Purgatorio” the writer’s coda to his work in the medium.  It’s an eighteen-part anthology of stories with […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman vs. Lobo #1 (of 3) They’re the last sons of their respective worlds and… that’s about all they have in common.  So what possible reason could the Man of Steel and the Main Man have for teaming up?  Well, it turns out that there’s this god called Numen who’s currently the most […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Radiant Black vol. 1 Nathan Burnett’s life sucks right now.  How badly does it suck?  So much so that he’s celebrating his 30th birthday by moving back in with his parents.  The good news is that he’s about to find the power of the Radiant which will change his life forever…  Assuming that […]