I sit and write this introduction on a February morning where it is in the mid 40s and going up to the low 50s today, but it’s still winter, and so we were thinking about the snow and cold when coming up with episodes, and when you think of cold and Gotham, who else do…
Wanna feel ancient? Tom King and Gabriel Walta’s The Vision is 10 years old. The 12-issue series in which the android Avenger builds himself a family and they slowly erode in a malaise of existential funk – just like humans! – was launched Nov. 4, 2015. Kind of makes me want to sit here and…
The hunt for Han Solo begins in War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha written by Charles Soule, art by Steve McNiven, colors by Laura Martin and letters by Travis Lanham. At the conclusion of The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo has been frozen in carbonite and handed over to the Mandalorian armored bounty hunter Boba…
Have you heard the sad, sad story of Madelyne Pryor? A mother, a pilot, a clone, and a Goblin Queen, Madelyne Pryor has lived many lives in her short time as a mainstay of the X-Men franchise. First appearing in Chris Claremont and Paul Smith’s Uncanny X-Men #168, Madelyne’s mystery and tragedy would come to…
Marvel teased next year’s big Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X event miniseries this week with covers of each’s issue #3, on sale in March. While the Fall #3 cover shows Logan about to pop a claw right in Dr. Stasis’ forehead clover, the cover to Rise #3…
Jessica Harrow finds herself trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead, something no other reaper has ever experienced. Just what makes her so special? Can she make her way back to the afterlife, and what exactly is going to happen now that she can walk among the living? Find out in Grim…
This week sees the release of a new Giant-Size X-Men #1, which will set Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, on a time-travel adventure through key points in X-Men history, starting with the dawn of the All-New, All-Different X-Men of 1975. Time travel is a Tuesday for some X-Men. And so we consulted Battle of the Atom’s…
Obi-Wan and Leia may have escaped their first run-in with the Empire’s forces, but the chase is far from over. The pair make their way to the planet Mapuzo, where they see first hand just how deeply the Empire’s sunk its claws into the galaxy — and Obi Wan is forced to confront a past…
Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant…
Looks like we oopsed up and called it too early before, but this time it’s really the last issue of the new volume of Legends of the Dark Knight. This issue features two shorts: “The Ghost and the Knight,” written by Che Grayson, drawn by Belen Ortega, colored by Alejandro Sanchez and lettered by Aditya…
It’s all about the kids, really. On Warworld, we see the origin of the Orphan, and his strange connection to Genesis that’s been fuelling Mongul’s new plans, in Action Comics #1044, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Riccardo Federici and Will Conrad, colored by Lee Loughridge, and lettered by Dave Sharpe, with a back-up…
Jason Todd is probably the unluckiest Robin (with apologies to Stephanie Brown): seemingly orphaned, lived on the streets, taken in by Batman only to be killed by the Joker only to be resurrected as a homicidal vigilante. But for decades, it was Jason’s death, not his life, that defined him as a character and added…
It’s another Patreon request, as Abigale Heartbalm returns. She wanted to talk about the original Venom story, and after we realized she meant the Legends of the Dark Knight arc about the super steroid and not a DC/Marvel crossover we didn’t remember, it was decided that this week’s theme would be Batman and drugs. Venom…
America Chavez has a secret sister, who has taken her brother hostage: what do they want? What do any of us want? Are her moms really dead, or just comics-dead, or merely interdimensional? America Chavez: Made in the USA #5, written by Kalinda Vazquez, drawn by Carlos Gómez, colors by Jesus Aburtov, lettering by VC’s…
The skies have gone dark, the sun hiding its face from the carnage to come. The children of the night, the vampires, have risen from the dark and hidden places of the world as one to drown the Marvel Universe in blood. Earth’s final night has fallen. Can even the heroes of this doomed world…