THE UNBELIEVABLE GWENPOOL / DEPT. H / BLACK ROAD [Reviews]: Surprise!

After being deprived of all the Gwenpool in last December's Marvel Holiday special, I've been looking forward to The Unbelievable Gwenpool for a few months now. It's Marvel Comics so I get that Spider-Gwen--and Gwen in general--were big in 2015, and Deadpool is always a big deal, so of course Gwenpool had to be a …

HARLEY QUINN / STAR WARS / POWER MAN & IRON FIST / AVENGERS STANDOFF / SNOWFALL [Reviews]: Harley Organa.

What happens when a guy who’s never read a Harley Quinn comic is assigned to review the newest one? He makes it through a page or two and then hands it to his wife, who has read everything Amanda Connor (Power Girl) and Jimmy Palmiotti (Jonah Hex) have created -- fine with me, since I …

THE WALKING DEAD / STRAYER / GHOSTBUSTERS / CRY HAVOC [Reviews]: Monster Mash.

This is it: the 150th issue of The Walking Dead has finally arrived (or at least did two weeks ago!), The little zombie train that could.. has. Indeed, if you are going into this expecting shockers like a season finale cliffhanger -- or a repeat of Issue #100 -- you will be either disappointed or elated that no one …

PAPER GIRLS / UNCANNY X-MEN / MIRROR / FOUR EYES [Reviews]: Hearts of Fire.

Saga scribe Brian K. Vaughan’s Goonies-meets-Super 8 adventure continues its breakneck ride into awesome weirdness in the latest issue of Paper Girls. After three books chock-full of plenty “WTF” moments, some answers finally come to our favorite newspaper delivery girls of Stony Stream. Thanks to a couple of translation devices we’re given a little bit …

BEST ‘INDIE’ COMICS of 2015 [Clergywide Top 5]: Sunshine & Bullets.

We continue our Best Comics of the Year coverage with Part Deux, this time covering all of the funnybooks not published under DC or Marvel. So, yeah man-- that means Dark Horse, IDW, Valiant, BOOM!, Oni Press, Vertigo, Archie, Black Mask, and, of course, the King of Independent Publishing, Image Comics. Sure, one would argue …