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 […]

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, […]