Ghost Rider #13 (Marvel – Way / Saltares) – My review for this issue could be simply “Yadda yadda yadda… pointless.” Actually it could just be “Pointless,” but I was trying to stretch the review so it would take as long to read as this issue. Why did they bother? It reads super fast, has [...]

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Annihilation Conquest: Wraith #1 (Marvel – Gilo-Marxuach / Hotz) – So, you guys remember last month when I said that I was really impresed with the Annihilation: Conquest story line? I still am, but these two tie-ins really didn’t grab me. Wraith by Javier Gilo-Marxuach (writer) and Kyle Hotz (Artist) of a Kree warrior who [...]

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Brit #1 (Image – Brown / Rathburn / Kirkman)- This relaunch from Image comics is a must for both old fans of the Brit and folks who might not have heard of Image’s spy comic. The series takes place inside the continuity of Image’s Universe and the title character is an aged old school “Doc [...]

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Gamma Corps # 1 (Marvel – Tieri / Ferreira) -  Here we go with another WWH tie-in that seems like a dig at our $$.  The Gamma corps are soldiers with the D.N.A. of Gamma-mutated heroes and villains inside them. It is unclear at this point whether or not they are clones or humans who [...]

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The Initiative #4 (Marvel – Slott / Caselli) – Most of the time, the Marvel tie-ins have very little to do with the main story. Case in point, Ghost Rider. Good story, but you could skip it and not miss a thing of World War Hulk. This is not the case with the Initiative #4. [...]

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The Best of the Brave and the Bold #5 (DC – Waid / Perez / Wiacek) – DC’s relaunch of one of the best team up books ever keeps coming at you hard! I would have thought the adrenaline would have given up the ghost a few issues into it, but no! The power storytelling [...]

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Hollywood’s gearing up to make its annual trek down to San Diego’s Comic-Con to court the geeks with its wares– but count Fox out. Just one week before the confab kicks off Thursday, the studio has decided to cancel its presentation at the show, saying that footage it wanted to show for several of its [...]

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WIZARD WORLD RETURNS TO CHICAGO AUGUST 9-12 Special Guest Tricia Helfer From Battlestar Galactica Michael Madsen From Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill & Sin City Congers, NY (July 19, 2007) – Wizard World returns to the Windy City August 9-12 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont where over 60,000 fans are expected to [...]

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Another Fine Mess! Here’s the Lowdown… Piper and Trickster break their fall with a little help from Trickster’s levitating boots… they each have one They literally fall into Gotham and go to get help from the Penguin (also in the DC spoiler poster) Jimmy Olsen has created a costume for himself (a big A on [...]

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World War Hulk #2 Wow…It’s the Hulk vs. just about everyone. Here’s what we get: Dr. Strange has a plan She-Hulk tries to talk Hulk down…dosen’t work Hulk and the Warbound take out the New Avengers Reed has a plan Hulk shows up early and the FF along with Storm and Black Panther try to [...]

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HERO BY NIGHT (Platinum – Coffman / Embury) – Here is the 2006 Comic Book Challenge winner Hero By Night. The 4-part mini-series is created, written, illustrated, and lettered by D.J Coffman with colors done by Jason Embury. Ho-boy, did this book hit it out of the park! Sure, these for issues are just the [...]

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check these out… almost nine months away   Click to see it all blown up! Now the folks over at DC, namely Dan Didio have told the fans that these teaser posters have endless details of hidden clues in them to tell us what is going to happen… Kingdom Come Superman? Martian Manhunter and Joker? [...]

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