This issue sees Jim Zub, who has already carved his name into the list of highly influential Conan writers with his two-year run on Titan’s Conan The Barbarian color comic, teamed with artist Doug Braithwaite. The results are spectacular.

Hell on Earth, alternately known as DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel #1. Published in 1985, it’s based on Psycho author Robert Bloch’s short story of the same name, which originally appeared in the May 1942 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. It was adapted by writer-artist Keith Giffen (Ambush Bug) and writer Robert Loren Fleming (Thriller).

Criminal: The Knives is the first new Criminal story from writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips in five years, and it will make fans of the series forget about the time away as it dives back into the worlds of characters we’ve met previously: cartoonist Jacob Kurtz, Angie from the Undertow bar, and Tracy Lawless, home from the special forces.

With accomplices John Paul Leon and Doug Braithwaite, Alex Ross (covers and story) and Jim Krueger (story and script) unleashed the Earth X version of the Marvel universe in a three incredible miniseries beginning with 1999’s Earth X, continuing into Universe X and concluding with Paradise X. The three longform stories have stood the test of time and are available in two omnibus editions.

The incredible storytelling present in Geiger since the beginning (even in the pre-Ghost Machine issues) continues in this issue with guest artist Eduardo Pansica and inker Norm Rapmund filling in, at least on the first 18 pages, for artist and co-creator Gary Frank, who rejoins the series in this issue’s epilogue

It was, after all, three beautiful drawn and nattily attired dinosaurs with guns. Actually, two dinosaurs...

When Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti came down from New York and talked to those of us on the Overstreet staff at the time about what they had planned for their Marvel Knights imprint, The Inhumans was the one that I didn’t see how it could work.

In describing comic books, it’s almost as much of a cliché to call a work “trailblazing” as it is to call its creator “legendary,” but sometimes a creation lives up to the hyperbole. Mike Grell’s Jon Sable, Freelance was and is one of those works.

Mike Zeck’s cover for Master of Kung-Fu #83 might be my personal prototype for a cover that did its job

Beginning with Captain Britain #1, cover dated October 13, 1976, Marvel Comics did something it had never...