Matt Murdock has taken on the new role of law professor at Empire State University, but it isn’t going to be a smooth transition since a new villain has entered the scene. The police are investigating a nasty murder on the subway and have found ties to similar killings, pointing to a sadistic new serial killer in the Big Apple. The first issue ended with a masked man sneaking up on Matt in his own apartment and warning him that Matt Murdock was going to die.

Inside the Muppet Theatre, the Muppets are worried about Kermit the Frog after he got conked on the head by a brick and has been out cold since. What they don’t know is that unconsciousness has transported Kermit to a black and white noir world where he is private detective Flip Minnow.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading of and research on Milestone Media’s revolutionary 1990s comics line. That, in turn, led me to remember one of my favorite almost-unknowns from that time, Nemesis Comics’ Frank. In terms of tone and approach, this modern take on Frankenstein actually would have fit in nicely with most of Milestone’s output.

A lot has happened in Foundation City. The Human League terrorist group set off a bomb that seemingly killed rookie Harbinger Team member Cici. In the aftermath, team leader Obadiah Archer started questioning Foundation City leader Peter Stancheck, who is also one of the most powerful psiots

In Battlestar Galactica #16, Captain Apollo faces off against an independent, high-functioning, different kind of Cylon, pretty much alone on a dangerous alien world. The story and art had a World War I, Red Barron kind of feel to it, and it stands out as one of the best of the 23-issue run.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 magic has returned, the Scoobies are back together, and vampires are more dangerous than ever before. With the reintroduction of magic, vampires have gained the ability to transform into animals and walk around in daylight. Curiously, this power does not extend to all vampires as Spike is still bound to the night.

hen the comics collected in this omnibus were running as individual issues, I wrote “Writer Daryl Gregory and artist Carlos Magno could put us on their payroll and we still couldn’t like this comic any more than we already do. Tightly plotted, relentlessly paced, brilliantly illustrated, accessible to new readers, and a balm for longtime POTA fans to the extent that while reading it one forgets there was ever a Tim Burton movie.

Writer Mark Evanier and Steve Rude bookended 1987 by teaming up twice. The first, cover-dated January of that year, was a Mister Miracle one-shot for DC Comics. Evanier, a longtime Jack Kirby associate, and Rude, channeled the King and produced a fantastic, Kirbyesque thrill ride. In December, they once again teamed up, this time for a Space Ghost one-shot at Comico.

The first volume contains Star Wars #1-23, plus stories from Pizzazz #1-16, and Star Wars Weekly #60. It opens with the six-issue movie adaptation then kicks off the series’ original stories consisting of one-offs and short arcs by Roy Thomas and Archie Goodwin, with art by Howard Chaykin and Carmine Infantino. The first original adventure, a Han Solo-Chewbacca story arrived in #7 (January 1978), introducing Jaxxon, the rabbit-like smuggler and pilot, and Don-Wan Kihotay, a delusional old librarian who fancied himself a Jedi.

No, the contrast came between the highly detailed figure of Aric in the X-O armor and the completely monochromatic background. Aric’s muscles and the armor’s metal were in parts indistinguishable, but there were also parts in which we saw distinct elements of man and machine. We saw defiance in his facial expression and power in his arms. This was a character not to be messed with.

no other writer has understood Magnus Robot Fighter the way that Valiant founder Jim Shooter did. In the pages of the “Steel Nation” arc that originally ran in Magnus Robot Fighter #1-4, Shooter and artist Art Nichols introduced Magnus to a whole new audience and reintroduced him to older fans.

Ninjak #7 starts at JFK International Airport where there are concerns about the safety of a United Nations ambassador. Ninjak has the inside scoop, particularly that an assassin named Ishak, aka Djinn, is targeting the ambassador. A pursuit through the airport gets even more complicated when Ninjak and his target board a plane. A plane full of innocent people.