The deadly cat and mouse game between the Titan and the Shrike continues in the nebula, while Raffi and Worf uncover a conspiracy that could destroy the Federation. Picard learns how much one’s life could change in a mere “Seventeen Seconds”; Picard Season 3 episode 3 written by Jane Maggs & Cindy Appel, directed by…
Writer Jeff Lemire, artist Gabriel Walta, colorist Jordie Bellaire and letterer Steve Wands head out on the back roads and find only horror in Phantom Road #1, published by Image Comics. I grew up on trucks. My dad owned a small trucking company, and I frequently would ride along when I wasn’t in school. As…
Christopher Chance has spent his life in defiance of death, and those who would be afraid of it. Now, death has come for him at last, and it’s time for the Human Target to finally find out if people were right to be afraid all along. The Human Target #12 is written by Tom King,…
Charles Xavier’s original five X-Men have a long history of advocating for, or executing, a genocide. We’re talking sentient races here. Jean and the D’Bari obviously, Cyclops and the Skrulls, Archangel and the whole human race at one point. Honestly it makes Beast’s unpleasantness on Terra Verde seem almost quaint. Not wanting to be left…
The inept spy is a Cold War classic celebrated in media from Get Smart to Austin Powers. Who doesn’t love the idea that total nuclear annihilation could be prevented by some clueless schmo in a suit and his hypercompetent Gal Friday? Writer-artist Matt Kindt explores this dynamic in Spy Superb, a three-issue Dark Horse series,…
As a boy born in 1991, my first, most vivid exposure to yearning was, of course, the relationship between Rogue & Gambit. It was nearly Evanglical in a way my parents would approve. These two are so dang horny for one another but to touch would destroy everything. Just like the youth pastor said… Anyway,…
The mysterious Captain Vadic gives Picard and the crew of the Titan an ultimatum: turn over Jack Crusher or die. Meanwhile, Raffi can’t “Disengage” from her obsessions in Picard Season 3 episode 2, written by Christopher Monfette & Sean Tretta and directed by Doug Aarniokoski. Will Nevin: Hey, Mark, lemme ask you this: Let’s say…
Danny Ortega’s one-man war on the GCPD continues as Renee Montoya is given an offer in GCPD: The Blue Wall #5, written by John Ridley, drawn by Stefano Raffaele, colored by Brad Anderson and lettered by Ariana Maher. Basil Karlo went to Hollywood to reinvent himself. But when you’re a shapeshifting clay monster, it’s hard…
I don’t watch anime. It’s nothing against it but I wasn’t a Toonami kid when I was growing up and now there’s just too many hours in the day. I am aware of a new (?) popular (?) anime called Attack On Titan where I think dudes fight skinless Goya looking monsters. Anyway that’s what…
Hollywood is historically rife with White Savior narratives. Hollywood is also rife with spoofs. A new comic by the team of Scott Burman, Eric Nguyen, Iwan Joko Triyono and Micah Myers hopes to combine both in comics form. Published by Dark Horse comics, two issues have been published so far of the four-issue mini-series. CXF…
The broken and the broken-hearted — Jack and Jen’s romance is doomed after a scuffle with mad scientists left Jack’s powers wildly on the fritz again, and a danger to She-Hulk. But life doesn’t stop when things break down, be they hearts or superpowers, leaving only the question: Where do we go from here? Jen…
Punk rock is a subgenre of rock music that usually brings to mind white music artists such as Patti Smith and The Sex Pistols. Yet punk rock and rock music in general wouldn’t be where it is without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Poly Styrene, Death, and other Black artists that have been there from the start….
Having just conquered the world, Sinister is in a predicament: Someone has stolen his secret lab, and his toys have stopped obeying him. This simply will not do. Immoral X-Men #1 is written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Paco Medina, inked by Walden Wong and Victor Olazaba, colored by Jay David Ramos and Chris Sotomayor,…
It’s all led to this, an all-out battle between the Iron Star, President Goode and the inhuman monster known as 6Bill. Can Azra save her people, or will they become more collateral damage in this war of super powers? 20th Century Men #6 is written by Deniz Camp, drawn by Stipan Morian and lettered by Aditya…
Some people come face-to-face with themselves, other people get ripped in half, and a new generation of outsiders searches for hope and better leaders in a revelation-packed Sabretooth and the Exiles #4, written by Victor LaValle, drawn by Leonard Kirk, colored by Rain Beredo, and lettered by Cory Petit. Anna Peppard: I have a specific…