“The Boys” has become a big hit for Amazon’s Prime streaming service.  Longtime readers will recall that I was generally a fan of Garth Ennis’ effort to take his hatred of superheroes to the next level with Darick Robertson, Russ Braun, John McCrea, and friends along for the ride.  So when it was announced that […]

Faith left her old struggling artist life behind at the end of the first volume.  While the implication was that she may have lost her soul (figuratively and literally) in the process, vol. 2 doesn’t dwell on that a whole lot.  Now that Faith has thrown in her lot with Poppy, her uncle Louis, and […]

Here we have a story about a man who got out of Texas when he was young, escaped the cycle of violence and drugs that he and his brother were trapped in and made his way out to California.  This man is Randy Terrill and wouldn’t you know it, he just got word that his […]

The party has split as a result of Ash’s manipulations and she now finds herself as the Queen of Angria, with Isabelle as a mostly-willing partner in this and Sol still rotting as a Fallen in the dungeon.  They want to leave the world of Die, but they also want to do so in a […]

A literal first issue as a complete volume, “Fire Power” vol. 1introduced us to Owen Johnson and his quest to improve his martial arts skills and learn about his parents with the inhabitants of the Temple of the Flaming Fist.  After a full volume of training, fighting, and fireballs, we got a look at where […]

With all of the “Star Wars” titles transitioning over to the post-”Empire Strikes Back” period, it’s unsurprising that Marvel has decided to launch a new “Darth Vader” series to go along with them.  The movie may not offer as ideal a jumping off point for such a thing as “A New Hope” did, but writer […]

Max Wilding is a scientist who believes that interdimensional travel is possible.  He also believes it’s really dangerous, or else he wouldn’t be working in a lab with his fellow scientists on a robot that can travel between them.  The good news is that when they finish it and turn it on, all of reality […]

Coates’ previous volume of “Captain America” was something of a mess in terms of its plot and its art.  “All Die Young” turns things around a bit as it delivers some straightforwardly satisfying superheroics.  Most of these focus on Cap and co.’s efforts to take down one of the Lukins’ inner circle:  Mutant soul-sucker Selene, […]

Paul O’Brien over at “The X-Axis” has made it clear that while he likes the overall direction of Jonathan Hickman’s “X-Men,” it stumbles along the way when telling individual stories on a month-to-month basis.  I feel that the series is in better shape than that, but when I read this volume of Aaron’s “Avengers,” I […]

I don’t want to say that the existence of this series is proof that we’re living in the worst timeline.  It’s just that if we were in a better timeline then I’d be writing about the fourth volume of writer John Layman and Afu Chan’s “Outer Darkness” instead of mourning its demise in this one.  […]