(DC Comics, creative team: Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas, Wes Abbott) When the idea of "triple crosses" seem quaint and uncomplicated, you know you're in for a book with something special going on. A deception has been perpetrated against Lok, the angry new handler of Task Force X, and the legacy members (King Shark, […]
(DC Comics, creative team: NK Jemisin, Jamal Campbell, Deron Bennett) There's tea spilling everywhere as the truth comes out — for many people — about what's really going on deep in space. Newly minted Green Lantern Jo Muellein has this one-of-a-kind power ring that fixes one design flaw but introduces another. That's fun. As well, […]
(IDW Publishing, creative team: Livio Ramondelli, Tom B. Long) This issue is very effective in establishing the effects of this "flawless" society on four misfits, each of whom are stuck together in a joined death sentence that hope to teach empathy but doesn't care if it fails. The deep science fiction hook is well couched […]
(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Sunny Gho and Clayton Cowles) Chuck full of philosophical ponderings and ineffable questions, this issue is heavy on concept and light on actual happenings. Imagine, if you will, that you took a message board discussion of the morality and theories behind mutant resurrection, a core element […]
(DC Comics, creative team: Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Joshua Reed) Former fourth rate superhero Mark Shaw decided that he knew better than, well, everybody and created a means by which thousands of people would be killed and thousands more logistical processes would be thrown into disarray. That's all settled, it's not even a secret […]
Three X-books out last week: Deadpool #3, Marauders #8, and Wolverine #1. One of them, Wolverine, was double-sized and double-priced, fitting considering Wolverine is double-dicked. Luckily, this recap column is free. Let's find out what happened in last week's X-books… Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox […]
Three X-books out last week: Deadpool #3, Marauders #8, and Wolverine #1. One of them, Wolverine, was double-sized and double-priced, fitting considering Wolverine is double-dicked. Luckily, this recap column is free. Let's find out what happened in last week's X-books… Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox […]
Three X-books out last week: Deadpool #3, Marauders #8, and Wolverine #1. One of them, Wolverine, was double-sized and double-priced, fitting considering Wolverine is double-dicked. Luckily, this recap column is free. Let's find out what happened in last week's X-books… Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox […]
(DC Comics, creative team: Mark Russell, Stephen Byrne, Dave Sharpe) The phrase that fits most is "sticks the landing." Tying up virtually every loose end from the whole series with just enough context to make them clear, this gorgeously rendered virtuoso performance is absolutely wonderful. There's at least four solid laughs here, some great quotables, […]
(Valiant Comics, creative team: Tim Seeley, Mark Laming, Andrew Dalhouse, Dave Sharpe) This issue gives you everything you need to know about the title character, down to montages of his history (hey, Livewire!) to solid action scenes showcasing his nanite powered capacity for violence. Oddly enough, it also very closely mirrors the plot of an […]
(IDW Publishing, creative team: Jim McCann, Silvia Califano, Sebastian Cheng, Neil Uyetake) There is some fantastic character work here, giving Hikaru Sulu a deeply emotional, resonant experience. There are also some really impressive visual sequences here. Unfortunately, the Federation also technically ignited a planetary war and was ultimately like, "oops." Whaaaaaat? For such a cavalier […]
(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Rod Reis, Travis Lanham) The most important thing to note here is that Bobby DaCosta is superbly entertaining. Chocolate coated, freaking habit forming, his Sunstreaker-flavored bravado and Deadpool-styled recapping is a thing of beauty. The artwork shows him at his ridiculous best, an Afro-Latinx Barney Stinson in space. What's […]
(Marvel Comics, creative team: Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Fornes, Nolan Woodard, Clayton Cowles) This issue has one setting: "holy crap." A mobster's granddaughter has been kidnapped from Hell's Kitchen, an area where billionaires have forced the police to withdraw. Complicated? It gets deeper. The title character has hung up his horns but can't resist using his […]
(DC Comic, creative team: Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Sook. Mikel Janin, Wade von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire, Dave Sharpe) Welcome to the real first issue of the latest futuristic reboot, as Jon Kent, the son of Superman finally gets a chance to experience the orientation the team worked so hard to create for him. As a […]
(Dynamite Entertainment, creative team: Christopher J. Priest, Giovanni Tempano, Ergun Gunduz, Flavio Dispenza, Willie Schubert) Gorgeous and baffling, layered and shocking, the story told in these pages is not as interesting as whatever went into planning this visual acid trip, but it ain't bad. Three characters are bound by various antagonists, with varying degrees of […]
(Marvel Comics, creative team: Al Ewing, Juann Cabal, Federico Blee, Cory Petit) This issue is almost as good as its predecessor, choosing vagary and the periphery of the fight with resurrected, war-hangry Olympian gods instead of the glory and spectacle of the main struggle. This choice allowed a lot of good character time, gave a […]
Three X-books were published last week, and we're running out of time to recap them all! Damn you, Presidents Day! This week we recap X-Men #6, X-Force #7, and Excalibur #7. Were they any good? And which was best? Read on to find out! Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated […]
Three X-books were published last week, and we're running out of time to recap them all! Damn you, Presidents Day! This week we recap X-Men #6, X-Force #7, and Excalibur #7. Were they any good? And which was best? Read on to find out! Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated […]
Three X-books were published last week, and we're running out of time to recap them all! Damn you, Presidents Day! This week we recap X-Men #6, X-Force #7, and Excalibur #7. Were they any good? And which was best? Read on to find out! Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated […]
Three X-books were published last week, and we're running out of time to recap them all! Damn you, Presidents Day! This week we recap X-Men #6, X-Force #7, and Excalibur #7. Were they any good? And which was best? Read on to find out! Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated […]
