Another Befuddling Mess In Service of Easy Satire — Reviewing ‘X-Factor’ #7
The cover is the best thing about X-Factor #7. Though, in true comic book cover fashion, it is more a
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Review: ‘Star Wars: Jedi Knights’ #1 Is Another Win For ‘Star Wars’ Comics
The Prequel Era of Star Wars storytelling in an interesting place. Once the butt of jokes amongst fans, the aging
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Review: ‘The Tin Can Society’ #6 Continues Off The Premise
The premise that co-plotter Rick Remender and co-plotter/writer Peter Warren are using continues to have interesting developments occur because of
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Review: ‘Gunsmith Cats Omnibus’ Book 1 Is Kind Of Creepy
This is the first in a multi-volume series of omnibuses and it collects a lot of Gunsmith Cats. However, this
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Advance Review: ‘The Seasons’ #2 Continue To Build Their World
Writer Rick Remender continues what might be one of the best homages to cartoonist Winsor McCay’s style of storytelling. There
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Advance Review: ‘The Patchwork Girl Of Oz’ #2 Shows Artistic Love
Writer/artist/colorist/letterer Otis Frampton and color flattener Kate Frampton continue adapting author Lyman Frank Baum’s novel The Patchwork Girl Of Oz
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Advance Review– `Assorted Crisis Events’ #1 Makes Post-Apocalyptic Life Interesting
The comic book universe is no stranger to the occasional crisis. Every decade or so, DC rolls out a crisis
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Comic Couples We Love: Rogue & Gambit Are ‘Mr. & Mrs X’
I’ve never been the biggest fan of the Rogue/Gambit relationship. Sure, when it was running hot in the early 1990s
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Advance Review: ‘Defiant’ #1 Tries To Tell A Story Too Big For The Page
Imagine being able to write the last chapter of your own story – to create that one last tale and
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Review — ‘Wolverine’ #5 Spins Its Wheels
The cliffhanger ending to the previous issue suggested some notable developments in the Adamantine subplot. In practice, Wolverine #5 stands
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Review: ‘The Seasons’ #1 Brings The Creep And Beauty
Writer Rick Remender conceives a mostly great script. The only obvious disagreement one may have with it is on the
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Review — ‘Howl’ #1 Succeeds By Backgrounding Its Alien Invasion
There is a trope, to the point of becoming a cliché, if it’s not already. In stories set in the
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Soft Magic And Massive Swords — Reviewing ‘Absolute Wonder Woman’ #4
When facing down an ancient evil attacking humanity, an empathetic can-do attitude will get a person pretty darn far. Weapons,
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Review — ‘Space Ghost’ #9 Is An Effective “Part 2 Of 2” For Better And Worse
If last issue read like the penultimate episode of a TV season finale, then Space Ghost #9 continues the trend,
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‘Bereavement’ Successfully Explores Grief Through The Lens Of Sci-Fi — And An Adorable Robot
Can a robot grieve? That’s the Pixar-ish question at the heart of Bereavement, a new sci-fi murder mystery comic launching
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Review: ‘Iron Man’ #3 Proves The Pen And The Sword Are Equally Mighty
After forging magik-based armor and wielding a honking-big sword over the previous two issues, Iron Man #3 is the issue
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‘Lucky Devils’ #1 Is An Exposition-Laden Start To An Intriguing New Series
The follow-up to writer Charles Soule and artist Ryan Browne‘s acclaimed Eight Billion Genies, Lucky Devils is a cracked-mirror version
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Review — Factional Divides Make ‘Transformers’ #16 A Success
One of the things this latest iteration of Transformers has done consistently to set it apart from previous incarnations —
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TV Review: ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Episode 6 Deconstructs The Crew With Aplomb
If Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s fourth episode was its Neel (Robert Timothy Smith)-centric outing, then “Zero Friends Again” is KB’s
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Review — ‘Space Ghost’ #8 Feels Like The Beginning Of The End, But Is Better For It
As far as anyone knows, this series is not ending anytime soon. Yet despite that, Space Ghost #8 feels very
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‘Timeslide’ #1 Does Too Little With Too Much To Do
For the last few years, Marvel has closed out their publishing year with a time travel-related one-shot intended to tease
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TV Review — ‘Secret Level’ Episode 1: “The Queen’s Cradle”
Welcome to the table, Secret Level has been the focus of a lot of anticipation for me since it
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Review: The 2024 ‘Gargoyles Winter Special’ Is Simple
Plotter Greg Weisman and plot/writer/editor/packager Nate Cosby create a traditional Gargoyles winter tale. Die-hard fans of the franchise will probably love it
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Review: ‘The Tin Can Society’ #4 Twists Their Mystery
Writer/plotter Peter Warren and plotter Rick Remender are still doing fine creating a realistic plot. Arguably, the story itself is
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More Than A ‘Very Special’ Comic: Reviewing ‘Ripple Effects: The Deluxe Edition’
For the last several years, I have podcasted about “Very Special” episodes of TV, those times when the regular plots
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Review: ‘Gargoyles Quest’ #5 Retreads Old Ground
Writer Greg Weisman finishes up this last issue with a script that is at best decent. Unfortunately, the script is
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Review — ‘Star Wars The Battle of Jakku: Republic Under Siege’ #1 Is More Of the Same
This issue of Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku comes with two numbers on its cover. However, it quickly becomes
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Review: ‘Wolverine’ #3 Improves By Promising Something Different
In a couple of key ways, Wolverine #3 is an improvement on the previous two issues of the series. It
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Advance Review: ‘The Tin Can Society’ #3 Keeps The Mystery
Writer/co-plotter Peter Warren and co-plotter Rick Remender continue to create an interesting murder mystery. There is a still full suspect
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Advance Review: ‘Mugshots’ #4 Does Not Develop Perfectly
Writer Jordan Thomas brings most of the plot threads to a conclusion. Fortunately, or unfortunately, there is an epilogue that
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‘X-Force’ #5 Builds To A Frustrating And Regressive Conclusion — Review
Throughout much of X-Force #5, there are signs of the series growing into its own, and improving as a result.
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