Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men:  Hellfire Gala — The Red Carpet Edition HC I am nothing if not consistent when it comes to putting big “X-Men” events here.  That said, the “Hellfire Gala” is a bit different from the likes of “X of Swords.”  Where that storyline sprawled through multiple titles and one-shots, the spine of this […]

Tom Taylor has written several comics I’ve really liked, with his run on “All-New Wolverine” and “DCeased:  Unkillables” chief among them.  So when I heard that he was going the creator-owned route with artist Daniele Di Nicuolo for “Seven Secrets” at BOOM! I knew that I had to check it out.  Never mind the fact […]

When vol. 4 ended, scientist explorer Nathan Cole was kind of screwed.  He was stuck in Oblivion with no clear way home and was effectively Public Enemy No. 1 as far as the Faceless Men were concerned.  Still, as the foremost expert regarding this place, its ecology, and inhabitants, you’d think that Nathan wouldn’t have […]

After mixed-but-promising results from Soule’s first volume, I went into this one expecting him to start delivering on that promise.  Vol. 2 is still something of a mixed bag however, as “Operation Starlight” shows that the writer’s run isn’t quite clicking in the way that I was hoping it would.  I do have to give […]

Kieron Gillen loves, “Warhammer 40k,” the far-future version of venerated RPG series “Warhammer,” a whole lot.  How much does he love it?  He loves it so much that when Marvel picked up the license to make comics based on “Warhammer 40k,” Gillen came back to the company to write one and oversee future comics much […]

Vol. 1 was a rollicking good time as writers Scott Snyder and Charles Soule established their vision of a world that America cut itself off from.  When a specific group found their way back in, we found a vision of the American frontier by way of “Mad Max.”  It was as fun as it sounds, […]

What do you do when you’ve got a hit Netflix series based on a creator-owned comic, but the creators are too busy to deliver more (than one) new volume of the series?  Get some talented people to publish spin-off “Tales of” that series, that’s what!  That’s how we got “You Look Like Death,” which gives […]

The last time I wrote about Nick Spencer’s “Amazing Spider-Man” run, I said that the writer had plowed it into territory that I didn’t find fun or entertaining to read about.  Finding out the identity of Kindred, the demonic being who has been tormenting Spidey from the shadows of Spencer’s run, was the only reason […]

Vol. 1 had Doom framed for sabotaging a black hole experiment on the Moon, deposed from his country, being arrested and then escaping before he was able to regain his armor and go after those responsible for his situation.  So if you’re thinking that vol. 2 sounds like this is where the series gets to […]