Vol. 7 was a bit of a misfire for this series as the storytelling and the art didn’t click as well as they usually do.  “Threats & Menaces,” however, represents a return to form as writer Nick Spencer gets back to what he does best on this title:  Showing us familiar and weird bits of […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultramega #1 I wouldn’t say that the premise for this new series strikes me as being all that interesting:  A cosmic plague is turning people into giant monsters and the only ones who can fight them off are three individuals with extraordinary powers.  They’re collectively known as the Ultramega, of course.  It’s a […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Suicide Squad:  Bad Blood “DCeased:  Unkillables” was great fun, and it showed that writer Tom Taylor knew how to have fun when playing around with some of the DCU’s less scrupulous characters.  Now imagine him and artist Bruno Redondo, at the wheel of comics’ least reputable team.  I would think that this is […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars:  Legends of the Old Republic Omnibus vol. 1 You’d think that diminishing returns would start to set in when you’re doing a licensed spinoff comic based on another property within that same license.  “Star Wars:  Knights of the Old Republic,” however, is here to prove you wrong.  The series, written by […]

Back in 2004, writer Kurt Busiek teamed with artist Stuart Immonen for a story called “Superman:  Secret Identity.”  It had a dubious high-concept premise:  What if a kid named Clark Kent gained the powers of Superman, in a world where “Superman” was a fictional character like he is in ours.  The end result, however, was […]

With a resume that includes works like “Summer Blonde,” “Shortcomings,” and “Killing & Dying,” Adrian Tomine stands as one of the comics industry’s most respected cartoonists.  It’s not nothing, but “most respected” doesn’t translate into personal wealth, fame, or actual respect.  This is something that “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist” makes abundantly clear with […]

In an America where laws are literally fought for on stumps in public, Senator Jack Hammer was someone with his best days behind him.  Until he beat the crap out of Senator Sweet Smell over a bill to deregulate genetic engineering.  Not only is he now more popular with the general public, he’s got the […]

It took three years, and a Netflix movie, but we finally got a second volume of “The Old Guard.”  I really enjoyed the first volume and the self-contained story it told made it so that the wait for this volume wasn’t as taxing as it could’ve been.  Still, it was advertised as “vol. 1” so […]

Bendis wrote two teenage versions of Spider-Man very well for a very long time over at Marvel.  So when he pitched DC on writing two of its preeminent superteams that happen to be made up of teenagers, the company apparently went “Okay, sure.” and let him have at it.  Naturally I picked up the first […]