Ride of the Valkyrie. Fear Itself takes flight with the notion of what happens when a chooser of the slain chooses herself as the one to be slain. The one heroine that Marvel rarely does justice to, perhaps because most… Read More
My top pick of a series for the year 2011 is Aspen Comic’s Lady Mechanika, a comic set within a time-space that melds both billowy Victorian-era dress with cog, gear, and crank structural elements of the industrial steampunk genre. Issue… Read More
The Strange Talent of Luthor Strode #2a continues the 6-comic story arc of Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore, and Felipe Sobreiro at Image Comics. The “talent” seems to be an array of talents from viewing possible outcomes of events (minor precognition),… Read More
There are comic books with great art and there are comic books with great stories. Rare is the comic with both. Of DC’s “New 52”, only Justice League had achieved this distinction thus far (but having done so with an… Read More
A claustrophobic undersea cavern where angels fear to tread is the basis for The Vault, a new trilogy by Image Comics. Beginning with a scene from the End of the World, the storyline is taut with adventure and intrepid exploration… Read More
Deception, treachery, intrigue. Journey Into Mystery #625 has it all as Loki’s manipulation of two of the underworld’s greatest leaders, Mephisto and Hela, begins to take form. Like trying to steer both a tornado on one side and a herd… Read More