Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it is Exiles #4. Written by Saladin Ahmed (Black Bolt, Abbott) with art by Javier Rodriguez (Royals, Doctor Strange And The Sorcerers Supreme), inker Álvaro López (Royals, Doctor Strange And The Sorcerers Supreme) and…
Built on the idea of a team of superheroes from alternate realities traveling through different dimensions, Marvel’s Exiles is a title that allows creative teams to explore the full breadth of the Marvel Comics Multiverse. It’s basically Sliders for superheroes, and the series is in the midst of a big revival thanks…
The Inhumans are currently a laughing stock after the Inhumans “IMAX movie event” totally bombed with critics and audiences, but the property is experiencing a major creative upswing in comics right now. Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward’s Black Bolt is an introspective character study of the Inhuman king with stunning…
Marvel’s Doctor Strange And The Sorcerers Supreme has consistently experimented with visual storytelling, making it one of the most imaginative superhero comics of the past year. The main art team of penciler Javier Rodriguez, inker Álvaro López, and colorist Jordie Bellaire took advantage of the book’s magical…
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Black Bolt #3. Written by Saladin Ahmed (Throne Of The Crescent Moon) with art by Christian Ward (ODY-C, The Ultimates), this issue’s creative experimentation intensifies and informs its prison-break story. (This review…
Doctor Strange And The Sorcerers Supreme has been flying under the radar, but it’s a damn good superhero comic. Doctor Strange is one of those characters that has a really cool concept but isn’t easy to make compelling, and writer Robbie Thompson has successfully crafted an intriguing story around Stephen Strange by…
The first X-Men Prime was released in May of 1995, on the heels of possibly the best-received crossover in franchise history, the Age Of Apocalypse. That story was so well received that it became a problem for the books themselves, caught slightly off-guard by the runaway success of the alternate universe crossover.…
With Doctor Strange topping the box office two weeks in a row, interest in Marvel’s sorcerer superhero is at an all-time high. A new superhero movie means new comics spotlighting the central character, and while Marvel is taking it easy in terms of quantity, it’s not skimping on quality with the new Doctor Strange And…
Jessica “Spider-Woman” Drew delivered her son in extraordinary circumstances with an emergency C-section in a space hospital overrun by alien rebels, but now that she’s back on Earth and situating to the whole mom thing, she’s learning the harsh reality of what it means to be a single parent. Writer Dennis Hopeless…
Jessica “Spider-Woman” Drew never wanted kids, a sentiment she makes very clear on the first page of next week’s new Spider-Woman #1, but people change. When Marvel announced that writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Javier Rodriguez’s second volume of the series would feature a pregnant lead, fans of the character were…
Spider-Gwen and Silk may be getting most of the attention when it comes to spider-themed superheroines, but fans shouldn’t ignore the ongoing Spider-Woman title, which has experienced an upswing in quality after a major change in direction last month. It’s understandable why this series has flown under the radar. The…
