Action Comics #959

The overstated significance which Lois ascribes to Doomsday’s ’90s debut echoes that era’s overinflated importance by DC themselves of late.

Ninjak #17

Valiant’s blend of Bond and Batman is their best book by far.

Justice League Rebirth

Unfortunately, in the real world, there seems to be as many such super-spouses like Lois as there are supermen like Clark.

Inside Recapitulates the Horrors of the Holocaust

Though grotesque, eerie, even eldritch imagery is scattered throughout the puzzle platformer, it is this juxtaposition of such a proximate setting with the very event which epitomizes evil in our cultural memory which imbibes in Inside such a haunting quality.

Game of Thrones Season Six

Far from repudiating Tolkien, Game of Thrones eclipses him: its darkness is so much darker, and yet, because of such, its light is likewise brighter.

X-O Manowar #47

Aric is a particularly compelling character, a man out of time, in constant tension with modernity; I can certainly relate.

The Ultimates #8

Even integrating so heavily into Civil War II, this tie-in issue feels like a perfectly natural extension of the direction this series has taken since the beginning.

Geralt’s Fairy Tale Ending in The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine

“It is the mark of a good fair-story, of the higher or more compete kind, that… however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the “’turn’ comes, a catch of breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art.”