CABLE / SAGA / RAPTURE / I AM GROOT / TEEN TITANS / THE SOVEREIGNS / VENOM [Reviews]: Back II The Future.

With Marvel Comics reverting the X-titles to the “fun” of the 90s (i.e. big action villains with subtle messages of progressivism), former Cable scribe James Robinson returns to the time-jumping mutant title with artist Carlos Pacheco (Uncanny X-Men). Robinson’s return to Cable is almost what you want in a first issue; it has suspense, mystery, …

THE FLASH / GENERATION X / STAR WARS / LUKE CAGE / ALL-STAR BATMAN / SECRET WARRIORS [Reviews]: Lightning Round.

Another week, and yet another series of titles to look forward to, fellow geeks and geekettes! We're halfway through the month, and nearly through the year by this point, but that doesn't mean that the best things aren't yet on their way! We've got some books from DC, Marvel, and one set in a familiar …

ROCKET / TITANS / REGRESSION / BUG! / ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE [Reviews]: You People Have Issues.

Exploding off the big screen into his own solo – comic, is Rocket Raccoon in Rocket! We meet with Rocket in bar where “hives of scum and villainy” consort; drinking as he’s taking some needed PTO from guarding the galaxy. As he tells the bartender his sad, sack of a story we meet trouble in …

SECRET EMPIRE / BRITANNIA / NICK FURY / REDNECK / CAPTAIN AMERICA – STEVE ROGERS [Reviews]: Waiting to Ex-Hail…

Secret Empire #0 begins wrapping up the extensive storyline that had critics and fanboys getting up in arms before the second issue of this arc even wrapped (whatever happened to letting a story pan out and actually end before waiting to get upset by it?). And if you haven’t warmed up to Captain America: Steve …

ALL-NEW WOLVERINE / BLACK CLOUD / HAWKEYE / THE IMMORTAL BROTHERS / FAITH / GODSHAPER / ROYALS [Reviews]: How, Valiant.

All New Wolverine #19 kicks off with Laura and her younger sister Gabby stealthily infiltrating the yacht of a human trafficker, it’s running along smoothly until a great big ball of fire illuminates the night exposing them to armed guards who open fire. This being a Wolverine story, the claws come out and appendages are removed. …

GREEN LANTERN/SPACE GHOST // SUICIDE SQUAD/BANANA SPLITS // BOOSTER GOLD/FLINTSTONES // ADAM STRANGE/FUTURE QUEST [Reviews]: The Con of Wonder!

A DC/Hanna Barbera mash-up yields lustrous spacerock to pack yer cosmic pipe with. James Tynion IV (Batman Eternal) and Christopher Sebela (Injustice: Ground Zero) tag-team it to bring the interplanetary lore, as Ariel Olivetti (Cable, X-Men) drops astral waves of multi-dimensional imagery. Two legendary galaxy drifters eventually collide when they answer the same distress call, …