What better way to ring in the Easter holiday than to discuss the completion of the modern reinvention of America’s favorite non-religious messianic figure? What started 8 months ago as a fresh look at Superman’s roots has turned into one of the most thorough reconstructions of the character and his surrounding myths to appear in […]
Swamp Thing excited a lot of people when it started seven months ago. Part of it was the creative team – Scott Snyder is extremely buzzy at the moment, and Yanick Paquette just seemed like a perfect choice to draw Earth’s elemental. A lot of that excitement has worn off, though, at least around Ground […]
In my review of Star Trek: Fleet Captains, I claimed that it was the best Star Trek game I had ever played. That is still true. No game captures the feel of the Trek universe better, or more comprehensively, than Fleet Captains. That game is a masterpiece of marrying a license to innovative gameplay mechanics, […]
Anyone who’s been within earshot of me over the past four or five months knows what a stringent supporter I’ve been of DC’s ongoing, tremendously successful New 52 initiative. And, of course, anyone who was reading comics prior to August 31, 2011, knows that the story that explained how we got from a universe with […]
Captains Log, Stardate 5236…7…2…how do these things work, anyway? I know, I know. I promise, the next game review will be a non-Star Trek-themed game (even though the also-excellent Star Trek Deck Building Game from Bandai has just been released as of this review). Who’d have thought that in the space of just 4 months, […]
“Sick thing is, it takes a situation like this to make us look death in the face. Really look at it. And that’s the only way you know what life is worth.” – Wolverine, Endangered Species Endangered Species is, if you listen to what Marvel puts on their trade dress, the prequel to the wildly […]
Alright, so technically this is three graphic novels. However, this is the only format they’re currently available in, so I’ll just be talking about all the stories contained within. Luckily, for this first volume, each of the stories follows the last, forming a complete epic. Also, since this is the first time I’ve talked about […]
Star Trek comics have been floating around for more than 30 years, and it is only occasionally that they are done to the satisfaction of Trek fans. The most consistant run was done by DC in the 80’s. Wildstorm has the license now, and their results, while occasionally mixed, has generally been good. Here, however, […]
It was only natural that Howard Chaykin would eventually do a Vertigo book. In the days when there was no such thing as an adult oriented title, he was pushing the boundaries on the kind of material that could be presented in four color format. When the independent revolution began, he was there with Cody […]