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Rocky and Bullwinkle 4 (June 2014)
Once again, Evanier seems to be running out of ideas–at least for what to do with his titular characters. Even the Dudley Do-Right story has Dudley reduced to a brief walk on appearance. Though the...
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Winterworld 1 (June 2014)
Winterworld is about some guy who has a teenage girl sidekick in a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland. Writer Chuck Dixon has a very strange approach to the plotting–every scene is a glimpse of a full...
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Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever 1 (June 2014)
I guess I didn’t realize–or care–how much Harlan Ellison’s original teleplay for the classic “Star Trek” episode The City on the Edge of Forever got changed. From the first couple pages, it certainly...
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Star Trek 35 (July 2014)
I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to talk about this issue of Star Trek. Not because the comic is all of a sudden doing well or good–and not because new artist Tony Shasteen is doing...
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The X-Files: Year Zero 1 (July 2014)
I’m not a big “X-Files” fan; I have not watched many episodes but I have seen the movies. And I do not recall atrocious banter being part of the formula. Karl Kesel writes inane dialogue for his...
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The Squidder 1 (July 2014)
Ben Templesmith has a fairly interesting setting for Squidder. Imagine Cthulhu does come to the world, what happens when people fight back through technology and modern (or futuristic) warfare. It’s...
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Ragnarök 1 (July 2014)
Someone, either at IDW or Walt Simonson himself, is doing everyone the great disservice of suggesting Ragnarök is some kind of Thor rip-off IDW is doing just because the character is a Norse god and...
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Star Trek: Flesh and Stone (July 2014)
Was someone out there desperate for a really bad team-up of all the doctors from “Star Trek” shows? The only regular medical officer the writers don’t include is the new continuity McCoy, which is...
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Transformers vs. G.I. Joe 0 (May 2014)
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe is not serious. It is not a realistic examination of an elite international military organization battling sentient robotic beings from another star. It is Tom Scioli...
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Transformers vs. G.I. Joe 1 (July 2014)
Scoli and Barber’s madness continues and amplifies. What I love is how they put in some sense of a narrative–there’s a subplot involving Snake Eyes and what he’s been doing since he left G.I. Joe, not...
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Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever 2 (July 2014)
Not only is Janice Rand back, she kicks butt. There are a few more big changes in this issue, with Kirk and company beaming up after time has changed to find themselves on a mercenary freighter or...
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Godzilla: Cataclysm 1 (August 2014)
I wanted Godzilla: Cataclysm to be good. Not before I started reading it, but as I read the first few pages where writer Cullen Bunn sets it all up. It’s got an intriguing ground situation–after the...
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Star Trek 36 (August 2014)
I love how static Shasteen draws all the faces. It looks like he's going through either publicity photos or maybe screen grabs and picking the ones he thinks are closest to the emotions the characters...
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Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland 1 (August 2014)
In Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, writer Eric Shanower includes something very strange, something Winsor McCay never bothered with. A narrative. This series's Nemo isn't just a kid who has...
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Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever 3 (August 2014)
The bottom falls out this issue. Given nothing compelling to illustrate–unless one counts the various odd jobs Kirk and Spock perform–Woodward is left with talking heads, where he seems to be painting...
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Transformers vs. G.I. Joe 2 (August 2014)
Even though I can remember having some of the toys–or wanting them–I can’t remember the name of the Transformers planet. But all the action takes place there, with Lady Jane leading an attack force of...
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Transformers vs. G.I. Joe 3 (September 2014)
Something very bad happens this issue of Transformers vs. G.I. Joe. It becomes inane. Writers Scioli and Barber don’t exactly stop giving characters arcs of their own, they just get rid of having the...
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Ragnarök 2 (September 2014)
Why do I even talk? Why do I ever say nice things like Ragnarök isn’t going to be some non-Marvel Thor knock-off? Because I then end up with egg on my face when Simonson does the big reveal this...
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Winterworld 3 (August 2014)
Even with the Guice art and some solid writing in places from Dixon, his approach to Winterworld and its revelations is getting too annoying. The protagonists have found a wonderful refuge from the...
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Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland 2 (October 2014)
Shanower is really dedicated to giving Little Nemo a narrative and it doesn’t help the comic at all. Jimmy (or Nemo) is an annoying kid who Shanower has throughout the entire issue–he’s not having a...
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