Above-the-Board Recommendation: John Constantine:  Hellblazer by Paul Jenkins & Sean Phillips Omnibus HC While runs before (Delano & Ennis) and after (Ellis & Azzarello) it were collected first, this one didn’t get that treatment for a good long while.  I don’t know exactly why that was, but it didn’t deserve that neglect.  Jenkins took the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Farmhand vol. 5:  The End It’ll have been three years since the previous volume was released by the time this one is scheduled to arrive.  That’s a long time to be waiting for anything, but after how good vol. 4 was I’m just glad we’re getting this at all.  While creator Rob Guillory’s […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel Knights:  The World to Come HC The Black Panther, T’Challa, is dead, but who will succeed him as the King of Wakanda?  That the claim is made by his son Ketema seems reasonable enough, except for one thing:  Ketema is white!  How the hell did something like this happen?  I don’t doubt […]

The Jonado Trust was left a shambles after the events of the first volume, but its former EN.VOI, Joy and Hampton, the EN.VOI living in her head, are doing all right for themselves.  Joy’s family has had to decamp to the Peachtree Trust, but they’re making do even as its leader is secretly trying to […]

I may be warming up to writer Deniz Camp’s superhero work (slightly), but his creator-owned stuff is another matter.  His breakout miniseries at Image, “20th Century Men” with artist Stipan Moran, was a boring and disappointing take on Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan that wound up being the worst thing I read that year.  Still, the […]

Not only did they not fix the world at the end of vol. 1, but the Ultimates wound up needing a lot of fixing themselves – Iron Lad chief among them.  So after taking some time to get their heads back on straight, they’re back in the fight in all of its myriad forms.  From […]

Fifty-seven.  That’s how many victims the Murder-Hole Killer had before they disappeared.  It’s a state record, and one that’s in danger of being broken by two current serial killers.  There’s the Ladykiller, who has forty-one kills to his name, and the Home Invader, who’s at forty-two.  Which one gets there first is anybody’s guess; however, […]

Marshall Ward is now Radiant Black – full-time – in the wake of the “Catalyst War.”  What does that mean for him?  He’s now doing superheroing full time along with trying to find a new girlfriend and paying the bills as he hangs out with Eva, a.k.a. Radiant Pink, in the apartment they share.  The […]

Two years ago, magic became a thing again and Robin Grant, a scientist at the Institute for Magic, is doing her best to try and understand it.  For both the good of the world at large, and for her immediate family which includes her father-in-law, her two sons, and her impaired daughter, Tre.  It’s Tre […]