Damn Rucka really hardly makes bad books, and when he has full control? Oh yeah here we go.

Rowan Black is a badass detective who, in the opening pages, is confronted with a man holding up people in a restaurant. She reluctantly goes inside to meet this man and he seems to know ALL about her. She hasn't a clue who the hell this loser is. Then he goes to burn her and Rowan here uses her Black Magic to turn the lighter on himself, burning the SOB to death. This is just the start and it only gets better from here.

Greg Rucka is known to create very strong female characters and he does wonderful here. Rowan comes off as strong, badass, and yet she is extremely likable from the start. The deeper you get into the story with her partner, the witch clan she is with, and the people that are after her the better it gets.

Let's talk about Nicola Scott. My god, this is a thing of beauty. Wonderful action scenes, emotion pouring through each page, and a great feel of gloom and doom throughout. She kills it with the art here.

Overall, this was fantastic. I want more now. Ordering volume 2.

Amazing art and mirrored with a fun story that shows Storm being a badass. Cool to see all the giant x-men issues come together to help this one.

Hellions continues to be a goddamn blast. This issue basically sums up the entire first arc for Hellions. With everyone getting their share of amazing moments, a goodbye to the Goblin Queen for now, and a dark ending with Sinister being...well a piece of shit as always. Give me more. A 5 out of 5.

Damn this was a fine collection of stories. This is better than Batman 80 anniversary IMO.

Let's get it out of the way. There's only two stories that didn't do much for me. It was Wolfman and Snyder's. Weird enough I love Snyder's regular Batman from New 52 but didn't love his newer batman stuff and this is kind of just a okay story about the symbol of the Bat. Wolfman story is corny and not very fun.

Then there's a few stories that were good but not great. But Tomasi was just a gallery rundown, and Kelly Sue DeConnick's story was fun Bruce story but been done a few too many times, and Jurgan's story was setup but it did get me intrigued enough to check out the future they have plan for Batman.

The rest of the stories are great or amazing. Bendis tells a fun story of the Bat Family. I enjoyed Mariko's story of the Joker war and how it's effecting everyone, including Batman. James's story is pretty great about the past and it stars Batman and Robin together. King's is pretty powerful ending to our cape crusader and one I enjoyed. Fraction tells a sick and twisted adventure of Joker and Batman's birthdays together. And Rucka tells a damn fine cop tale that shows what batman means to people.

Overall, if you're a Batman fan I can't see you disliking too many stories here. There's something for everyone. I enjoyed a large majority of it! A 4 out of 5.

Mostly a build up for the new crossover starting this week. With the Summoner explaining what had happen to his people and Apocalypse being the "savior" for the future, we have some big epic event coming up. This is heavy exposition but atleast it is interesting enough I wasn't bored though I think Hickman could have presented it better. The art remains super solid though and while it didn't blow me away it's still good. A 3 out of 5.

A decent tie in. Some cool moments of Magick fucking shit up makes it worth reading alone. We also have the return of the old ladies from Hickman's early issues of X-men. They're just as batshit insane and make for some comedic moments.

The ending is actually well done but the middle feels long. We had to pad it out to give some cool fight scenes and such but nothing interesting happens too much. The start and ending are the best part but not as good as the actual Empyre event.

A 3 out of 5.

I still have to finish reading my original read of Ron Marz Witchblade, which I was enjoying, but figured I'd give this new series a whirl. Well..it's different, interesting, but don't think it comes together perfectly.

We have a new witchblade user. Alex is a reporter and after getting killed returns to life with the witchblade now apart of her. While she's on a haunt to save someone another person in her life enters to teach her the ways of the witchblade. Will she accept it or fight against it?

The thing with this is it feels more set in reality. Sure big demons come through and such but it doesn't feel over the top of as zanny as the originals. Which could work in its favor but it feels a little cliche and very YA at times. Now the thing is the art is strong, the dialogue is fine for the most part, the plotting is well constructed, and it works but nothing blew me away. I felt kind of eh finishing it. I may check out volume 2 but this didn't blow me away.

Overall this was decent. A 2.5 out of 5, I'll round it to a 3.

Ha, this wasn't half bad.

I was expecting to go into this fully hating it. Everything about Ric so far has been pure garbage. I mean it's one of the WORST evolution of a character I've ever seen. Didn't help Lobdell was writing and he's trash 95% of the time. So with the awful stank of the last 10+ issues I wasn't much looking forward to this but I said fuck it and downloaded it from Hoopla.

This is moving the storyline forward for Nightwing returning to being the hero we all know or love. It actually opens with a great annual of Dick losing his memory and kind of recapping the events as it happened. This time though we get the insight into right after the events and how Bruce reacted. We also get to see Damien at Dick's bedside in the hospital and it's these moments that really lifted the volume for me.

The rest of the volume goes more into cliche area but not horrible atleast. Nightwing's band of Nightwingers is slowly getting picked off because Talon has had enough of these 'Fake" Nightwings. He knows who Dick is and he won't let him rest till he becomes just like him, a owl for the court of owls.

This storyline is basically a fairly typical superhero tale. We know what will happen, no surprises, but written well enough and pacing decent enough to make it readable. Biggest plus is knowing Dick gaining his memories back slowly and the next event, Joker war, where he will no doubt gain all his memories again (Thank god).

Not great but far better than the last 3 or 4 volumes. A 3 out of 5.

While I think Winick does a great job of letting me enjoy Kyle and his growth and relationships this plotting here is just okay.

So we begin with Jon being a badass green Lantern again. That's the first part of the whole story and he's basically kicking ass and taking names. Then we slip back to Kyle with Jade and all their adventures into space. Kyle is trying to find peace with himself and what happened in the last volume but instead we get a zanny space adventure with the return of a certain Planet Lantern.

Like I said, the characters and dialogue are top notch fun. I love the dialogue between Kyle and Jade and really all the characters. Feels well crafted and well...real. But the actual plot of the bad guys here is silly, everything wraps up quickly, and the ending kind of leaves you like "okay what's next?"But sadly this is the last graphic novel of Winick's run until Johns comes on with his Hal Jordan reboot.

This was a middle of the road adventure but it was pretty fun regardless. A 3 out of 5.