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DC Solicitation Sneaks: April 2026

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Wonder Woman by Tom King vol. 4:  The Island of Mice and Men Diana may have defeated The Sovereign, the secret King of America, in vol. 3, but that just means she can get back to dealing with Amazon business.  Like finding out what happened to the missing Amazon who went on a […]

Marvel Penguin Picks: April 2026

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman vol. 4:  One Last Day As if I could put anything else here after giving the top spot to this title in my Best of 2025 podcast.  It’s not just that I’m looking forward to seeing how Hickman wraps up his Spider-saga, or the fact that I’m expecting […]

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time

Professor Nathaniel Peaslee had it all.  A respected teaching position at Miskatonic University, a happy marriage with children, until a fateful Thursday in 1908 when he had a seizure and became… someone else.  It wasn’t until 1913 when he became himself again and started to reckon with the time that he had lost, as well […]

The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt

Shauna Wickle is on vacation!  She’s borrowed her Uncle Jim’s houseboat and is sailing downriver in search of some good memories.  However, after she’s distracted by charming bad-boy Bryn, Shauna winds up damaging the boat and now needs to get a job to pay for repairs.  Fortunately for her, Bryn’s mom owns a fabric store […]

Redcoat vol. 2

Before I get into the review of “Redcoat” vol. 2 proper, let me tell you a bit about “Revenger.”  This was an anime series that Steve and I watched a few years back that has generally been forgotten by anime fandom.  It was about a group of bishounen in a port town in feudal Japan […]

Geiger vol. 4

Tariq Geiger, Nate the Nuclear Knight, Barney the two-headed dog, and Zigzag the three-eyed zebra have been on a mission for a while now.  They’ve been looking for Lewiston:  the home of Ash Arden, a glowing person like Geiger who was reportedly cured of their nuclear powers.  They finally arrive there, after picking up an […]

Oshi no Ko vol. 12

Aqua Hoshino has a plan to get revenge upon his dad who caused the death of his mother, Ai.  It’s a movie about her life called “The 15 Year Lie” and it has a script, as well as a good director attached to it.  What it doesn’t have is a distributor, and even if they […]

Absolute Martian Manhunter vol. 1: Martian Vision

DC’s Absolute Universe thunders on with the release of the next wave of titles: “Absolute Green Lantern,” “Absolute Flash,” and this one written by Deniz Camp and illustrated by Javier Rodriguez.  I won’t be talking about “Absolute Flash” in the near future because its writer, Jeff Lemire, has exhausted my patience regarding his superhero work.  […]

Animal Pound

This is an updating of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” for the modern era from writer Tom King and artist Peter Gross.  It features some truly lovely art from Gross, not just rich in detail, but in expressiveness.  His characters may be animals, but they emote as convincingly as any human with the bravery, humor, cowardice, […]

Universal Monsters: The Mummy

Helen Grovsenor may be the only daughter of a wealthy archaeologist, but she has her own struggles all the same.  As a mixed-race daughter of an Egyptian woman and an English man she’s always struggled to fit in, with those around her appreciating her connections more than anything else.  That all changes one day in […]