Uncanny X-Men 206-209, Nightcrawler 1-4, Longshot 1-6, New Mutants Annual 2, Marvel Fanfare 33

While the remaining issues of Uncanny X-Men are excellent, the rest of the omnibus is less so. The Nightcrawler mini is an OK diversion, but the Longshot mini didn’t work for me at all. The story didn’t draw me in, nor did I…Read more

Set after Hush, this is more or less a chase story of the leads pursuing the stolen lasso of truth, as it goes from Catwoman to Harley Quinn to Joker. The story’s OK but it’s a book bought far more for Cheung’s art which is superb. There’s some great moments along the way too, like Wonder Woman holding Catwoman by the…Read more

Uncanny X-Men 194-205, New Mutants Special Edition 1 and Uncanny X-Men Annual 9

Absurd as it sounds, this was published 2019. The first omnibus was 2006. 13 years to get these five omnibuses!

Unfortunately, while this set of issues was overall good, it’s the first time where I felt some weaknesses crept in. At the same…Read more

The bulk of the series is on what happens when the Empire comes to town, which I think it did well but if that’s of no interest then it’ll be boring.

From the writer of The Gold, a pair of series with a focus on what happens after a gold bullion robbery, this new Netflix series shifts to 1990 and the dying months of the Thatcher government amid a heroin flood. In response Customs mounts an undercover operation to nail the drug trade.

There’s a wry cynicism running through the story,…Read more

Wolverine and Kitty Pryde 1-6, Uncanny X-Men 189-193, Uncanny X-Men Annual 8, X-Men and Alpha Flight 1-2, Marvel Fanfare 40

For 40 plus year old comics, the Uncanny X-men issues in this part of the omnibus have a very sharp edge, as hatred towards mutants rises and the dark future of Days of Future Past remains far from…Read more

This is a fun sequel that again uses the era and its recent history to spin an intriguing tale. This time Batman is up against Scarecrow and Executioner, with some unexpected aid from Superman. Perkins art is again excellent, especially in the square format.

While Jurgens does a good Superman, especially in the…Read more

Another part of the problem is conservatives still in this burn down the status quo when they’ve had so much power for so long that they are the status quo. But much of pre-Thatcher UK conservatives really were about keeping the…Read more

Yeah, they are that easily fooled.

Apparently three series was always the plan, which is odd given how this series ended. Unless you view the set as a modern noir tale, as then it works better.  In more than a few ways it’s a darker UK riff on Person of Interest, sans any reassurance.

Wow, what a series. Though, if they hadn’t confirmed the second season ahead of time, that ending would be immensely irritating. But with it? A perfect set-up.

It’s also worth noting the sheer epic that LFL have built across Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch and this. An epic that will be passed…Read more

This is another excellent demonstration of the Black Label line, but the story itself? Much harder to say. It is very much to the reader’s interpretation of its ambiguity, of which there is a lot.

The story could be read as a dying fever dream, the anti-lufe equation running rampant beyond anyone’s control, of a couple…Read more

Rarely have such a bunch of deserving bastards been so screwed over.

Of course, the terrifying aspect that looms over all of it is the technology is scarily plausible.

This is a perfect illustration of the Black Label idea, to do stories that could never be done in the ongoing superhero books. As such it has a neat sense of completeness and finality to it.

The story starts off simple: Rann was invaded by the Pykkts, led by Adam Strange, a good old American boy, they were fought off, and who…Read more

The entire fraternity / sorority concept really needs to be burnt to the ground, staked, it ashes bombed for good measure and then nuked from orbit. Just to be sure. But the black comedy potential in it? Infinite. And it is that which Zchut and Leilz go to town on, while also sticking friendship under the…Read more

It’ll be nothing short of tragic if Robinson and Hester are unable to continue this story, as this opening series is a delight to read. Excellently paced, with a good cast of characters set amid the turn of the 19th century in 1901, all depicted with superb, flowing art.

And if all that doesn’t sell it, how…Read more

Would superhero comics be better if Tom King had had more therapy in lieu of writing superheroes? Hard to say. I find King’s work variable. Sometimes it’s excellent. Other times terrible, sometimes interesting. His Batman run pings between all three. This one? Falls into the interesting.

It also does a couple of other things. One…Read more

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This series feels like it is for Mignola what Ragnarok is for Simonson, a series where he spin stories, write and draw them and have a whole lot of fun doing it. Unlike the first volume which was a collection of short stories, this is instead a single narrative, told over seven chapters.

The story…Read more

Wow, this lived up to its reputation for being excellent and then some.

Set early in Batman’s life, the series is a set of four short stories, each three parts. They also, unlike other stories, focus more on the detective aspect of Batman. The stories use the more glamourous aspects, the gadgets, the cape, even the…Read more

While it’s presented as a big event story, which to be fair it is, but is still more of a midway finale, with Adams and Hampton using it to conclude some plots for now and continue others, plus add in some new ones. Not a new trick but when done well it can be very effective and they are very good at…Read more

Our enemy will only engage us in battle when they are technologically adept enough to do so, but where we retain technological advantage.

Cue an Iranian F5 bombing the crap out of a US base in Kuwait, using old bombs Patriots do not seem to recognise.

People are aware weaponry doesn’t become inert over time,…Read more

It might be titled differently but this is pretty much DC KO: Prelude, even the cover says as much. It’s also a grab bag of issues and artists. Does that make it bad? No, but it’s fair to say the book’s identity suffers for it.  The story here also renders the lack of DC All-In special not being…Read more

For all that he’s been busy on Fantastic Four, I haven’t got around to checking out North’s work there or elsewhere. This was a good introduction and yes, he’s very good, as shown by this delightful tale.

Covering how Krypto left Krypton, arrived on Earth and what happened to him before he found Clark, it’s a great…Read more

This is a good, hmm, epilogue, aftermath, prologue, opening act? Pretty much all of those things as we get a sense of what has changed in the wider world, while the book mostly adopts a smaller, more personal focus.

Sigurd beating the hell out of far right bastards, all of whom are invoking Thor as their right to be a…Read more

It’s fair to say this arc has one hell of a reputation and, for the most part, lives up to it.

The opening two-parter with Freeze and Matin was wonderfully creepy. Freeze using icebourne pathogens is clever, though for who? He wasn’t doing it for himself. Batman taking a mini-torch to Fries was a great touch…Read more

Revealed in full earlier and out in July.

I’m not sure we were expecting a remake from Resynced, I was thinking far more remaster.

Things that sound great:

The influence Shadows has had on the game, especially with regard to following / eavesdropping missions, which killed the original’s story for…Read more

Well, as expected, it finally went full Genshin Impact. After an incredibly badly designed, very confusing and boring campaign quest, it then does a rubbish boss. Difficulty through the roof, compromised controls, maybe 1 in 3 attacks landing due to the boss size and how close I have to get. Damage done? Miniscule.

And, as far…Read more

The actual perp? Washington. 1777.

Original gone psycho Beast

Back-up Beast, not psycho

AoA Dark Beast, very psycho

So just like the comics.

I do wonder if an interest in Greek mythology aids Wonder Woman stories. It does this one, as Thompson, Sherman and Bergere continue to serve up an intriguing re-imagining of both superheroes and gods.

The main arc sees Diana enter into and, in her own fashion, exit an ancient labyrinth…Read more