DARTH VADER / SPIDER-VERSE / HARLEY QUINN V-DAY SPECIAL [Reviews]: A Stash of Cupids, Siths, and Spiders!

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Valentine's Day was this past Saturday; and this is the Sunday Stash, finished on a Monday, that most of you will read on a Tuesday. My arrow-riddled, black heart bleeds for ya, ya Cupid fux! Now, go and getcha box of half-eaten VD chocolates, and hunker down for some straight up smack-talking …

UNCANNY AVENGERS / CASANOVA / BATMAN / THE DYING & THE DEAD [Reviews]: It’s the ‘Super’hero Bowl Sunday Stash!

For all of you Stupor Bowl fans, still sober enough to read this right now; after gorging yourself on processed grease and watered-down domestic lager-swill, let me drop a brilliant passage to you from the seminal novel, 1984, from a dead genius named, George Orwell: "So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and …

ANT-MAN / OPERATION: S.I.N. / WOLVERINES / LADY KILLER [Reviews]: No Picnic…

With Marvel's onslaught of new titles [including a new AGENT CARTER comic!]; Hal Jordan settling down from the Godhead to deal with, uh, Girlgrief; dweebs Star Trekking into Monkey territory; and more impressive risers from the indies, 2015 is already starting to look like a banner year for great new comics. So, read on and …

COMIKAZE ’14 [Rectory Round-Up]: The Man Giveth; The Man Taketh Away..

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. - A mid-20th century industrial mecca, whose influence still resonates deeply within our red American blood today. Motor City, home of the former Big Three (GM, Ford, Chrysler). Hockeytown, U.S.A.: The Detroit Red Wings. Berry Gordy and the MoTown Sound. Iggy Pop and the Stooges. Birthplace of my former mentor: L.A.-based Fine Art …

NIGHTCRAWLER [Review]: Don’t let this one BAMF! away.

The present day/night Los Angeles depicted in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler (2014), directly mirrors the sinister, melting plastic pot it can often seem to be: A shallow reflecting pool brimming with all flavors of ultra-violence; pressed against our faces; forcing our nostrils to run red until we taste the copper in the back of our throats. Shot …