If you’ll recall, I was quite keen on catching up with this series after reading through vol. 3.  I’ve done just that after reading through vol. 4 and seeing the results of the Bowman family’s trip to Mexico.  “Ill-fated” doesn’t really begin to describe it as things kick off with patriarch JV murdering a human […]

…this is just two issues worth of story stretched into a six-issue miniseries. Much of Bendis’ decompressed comics work over at Marvel didn’t bother me the way that it did other fans.  Giving his characters’ dialogue time to breathe made things feel more natural and helped draw me in to their stories that much better.  […]

How does the better of Bendis’ two “Superman” titles follow up a pretty great first volume?  By putting almost everything it started there on the back burner in order to build hype for “Event Leviathan.”  It’s why this volume starts off with Jimmy Olsen infiltrating the Kobra cult only to become a firsthand witness to […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Lois Lane:  Enemy of the People You tell me that this maxiseries is about the title character uncovering a secret that could threaten her husband’s life and disrupt the balance of power in the DCU and I’d say that I’m interested.  Then you tell me that it’s coming from writer Greg Rucka and […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Scumbag #1 Rick Remender is at it again. With “Low,” his series with artist Greg Tocchini, wrapping up in these solicitations the writer is starting a new one with artist Lewis LaRosa.  As the title implies, the protagonist for this new series is a real piece of work.  Ernie Ray Clementine is […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Alien:  The Original Screenplay HC I’m mentioning this hardcover here less for my expectations of its overall quality than what it represents.  As with all collected editions solicited from Dark Horse, “Alien:  The Original Screenplay” is advance-solicited by two months.  Which means it will come out in December — an “under the wire” […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Warhammer 40,000:  Marneus Calgar #1 (of 5) I’ve heard of “Warhammer” over the years, of which “40,000” is its future sci-fi version, yet I’ve never really had a reason to really take an interest in it.  Until now, as you may have guessed.  That’s because in acquiring the “Warhammer” license from Games Workshop, […]

Volume one was no fluke and vol. 2 of “Hillbilly” brings more of the same “Backwoods Appalachian ‘Conan’” charm to its table.  This time wanderer Rondel and his Devil Cleaver mix it up with an actual legendary creature, the Tailypo, in a cautionary tale about the dangers of eating tail meat.  There are also stories […]

Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just come back to New York after spending several years in Nigeria.  Not that the choice was her own, as she had to get a potential victim of genocide out of the country.  A floral genocide, specifically.  If that sounds strange, then you should know that “Laguardia” takes place in the […]

Stokoe snagged five Eisner nominations this year:  Two for his artbook “Grunt” and three for this one-shot.  While I’m a big fan of his work, shelling out for the cover price and shipping of this single issue was still a big ask for me.  It wasn’t until it got these Eisner nominations that I figured […]