After relaunching the Man of Steel via the similarly titled miniseries in 1986, John Byrne and his fellow Superman collaborators had three ongoing comic series to adapt to the new status quo. Superman, Adventures of Superman, and Action Comics were all interconnected and starred the same Clark Kent, alongside his more marketable alter ego...
Deniz Camp’s Ultimates is one of the hardest mainstream superhero comic series I have sat down to review. A book steeped in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, with both an unconventional story structure and frequently shifting art style, readers are forced to accept that reading Ultimates is a distinct experience from the typical superhero comic...
I have mentioned before that I have never been the biggest Batman fan, in terms of comics. My entry into the medium was through Marvel, and from there, I have mostly looked for more independent and substantive voices rather than works from the big publishers. Nowadays, I am getting into Post-Crisis DC comics, and that, of course, comes with stories of the World’s Greatest Detective and Most Popular Superhero...
Alongside their tentpole Star Wars comic book series, Disney launched a variety of solo and side titles when it acquired the franchise in 2015. Princess Leia from the team of Mark Waid, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Joe Caramagna, and Joordie Bellaire was one of the new books set to prop up the burgeoning expanded universe...
We have reached the apparent end of an Ultimate Spider-Man book, once again. For twenty-four issues over two years, this version of the series dominated conversations about Marvel comics, and the associated Ultimate Universe was only bested by Absolute DC in terms of the wider industry’s discussions...
We are continuing our journey of the DC comic universe here at Comics for Y’all by circling back to the leading lady of the line, Wonder Woman. Picking up on issue seven and concluding with fourteen of George Pérez’s lauded and lengthy run, we see Diana reborn once again...
In 2025’s Beat It, Rufus, author-illustrator Noah Van Sciver opens a window into the eyes and world of Rufus, a wretched man who has nothing and seems to deserve less. Without ever compromising the harsh characterization of Rufus, Sciver wields nuanced satire to great success in his effort to tell a gripping, human story.
The stakes for the third volume of Jonathan Hickman’s Ultimate Spider-Man could not have been higher, personally, for me, in terms of reading comic books. As a casual fan of the web-slinger’s comics, the first two entries into the series were impressive and kept me on the hook. However, I saw much more profuse praise from across the comics landscape, and I was forced to reckon with the idea that Peter Parker and his associated world might not be a good fit for me...
One of modern pop culture’s largest icons, Superman is better known as a composite of his appearances than for any single specific depiction of the hero. Similar to his peers, Batman and Spider-Man, the typical fan may approach The Man of Steel from comics, movies, television, or basically any other artistic avenue, without any single one being integral over another...
The Star Wars universe owes much of its popularity to the expansive, varied nature of its science-fiction setting and its vast cast of characters. Across media, productions in a galaxy far, far away tend to lean on ensembles and often have the grander conflicts serve as the centerpiece rather than a singular character. If there is a main character of the series, especially in the first and second trilogies, it is Anakin Skywalker, later known as Darth Vader...
