"Sabretooth War" Part 1     I remember reading the first few issues of this series. Considering I stopped reading it, I'm guessing it wasn't very good. But #41 brings a new 10 part "Sabretooth War" storyline leading to #50. The cover also proclaims that it's "The Most Violent Wolverine Story Ever Told." Okay. I figured I'd check it out, since I've been pretty much oblivious to what's been going on in any of the X-Men books since I named House of X and Powers of X the best books of the year in 2019. Those books created a new island home base for the X-Men, Krakoa ..read more

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                                 I think back to the "glory" years of reading comics in my youth, back when the artists were king. All those great artists left Marvel to start Image Comics. McFarlane, Lee, Silvestri, Keown, Portacio, Larsen. Image Comics didn't exactly set the world on fire with the stories, but they sure looked dynamic and bigger than life. Are there just not any good artists left in the comic book world? It's just not lucrative enough? Going into adver ..read more

      Ed Brubaker only wrote two issues of Friday, the Night Fever hardcover, and the Where the Body Was hardcover. Maybe if he was a typical comic book writer churning out monthly books left and right his excellence would fade. That seems to be the case with a lot of good writers. Matthew Rosenberg's What's the Furthest Place From Here? is fantastic, but he writes a lot of forgettable books for Marvel and D.C. Probably my other favorite comic book writer, Brian K. Vaughan, only wrote six issues of Saga this year, and it's perhaps the best that book ha ..read more

      I was reading Where the Body Was, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' latest graphic novel, on my Ipad when the power went out a few weeks ago. Instead of getting up and checking on things or finding a light, I kept reading. I was so engrossed and entertained with the book that the power going out was a meaningless distraction. It was that good. Lately, Brubaker has dismissed putting out monthly comics. I suppose it's a financial decision (everyone these days seem to ominously foretell the death of the comic book store). While I miss his weekly books, the good thing is that w ..read more

      Tom King hasn't written an ongoing comic since he was fired from Batman in 2019. He's still all over the place at DC, though he's mostly only been doing mini-series with obscure, B-characters. They did let him finish his Batman run with a Batman/Catwoman mini-series and he also did two other Bat books: a one-shot and another mini-series with The Riddler and a few other characters. I kind of figured they should let him write an ongoing Superman title, or maybe one of the other big DC titles like The Flash. Nope. They've given him Wonder Woman. Maybe they're stil ..read more

      Knight Terrors is DC's big summer event this year. I don't think Marvel has a big event this year, which is strange. Marvel does do a lot of smaller event books, like the Sins of Sinister X-Men event they did earlier this year. That was only 11 issues, though. Last year they did A.X.E.: Judgment Day which was 35 issues. I vaguely remember either of those. Not that I'm clamoring for a missing Marvel event book this summer, as none of them are any good and ultimately meaningless. Knight Terrors is an odd one. Most of the regular titles just did tie ..read more

    Writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Tyler Boss made 4 Kids Walk into a Bank, my favorite comic of 2016, so it's not too much of a surprise that their follow up, What's the Furthest Place From Here?, from Image Comics, is fantastic. I was poised to name it the best comic of 2021, but since only the first two issues came out in 2021, I figured I should wait a bit to see if it continued it's excellence. It did. I should admit that the last two issues released in 2022 (#8 and #9) weren't that great, but I kind of blame the fact that artist Tyler Boss didn't draw them. Bos ..read more

    I'm a big fan of writer Si Spurrier, but even I didn't agree with his decision to write a book with no words except for a little bit of untranslated, alien dialogue.      What saved the book was the gorgeous art by artist Matteus Lopes and colorist Mattias Bergara. My God was this book gorgeous to look at.  ..read more