The new year ahead

Happy New Year everyone!

This year I'll be continuing to look at a wide variety of Essential volumes but this time with a little more structure as I go. There'll be a number of months where all the regular reviews will have a unifying theme. It could be a single series, a family of titles, the remaining series whose first volumes haven't yet been covered, an era or so forth. Not every month will have a dedicated focus but several will, especially with certain movies on the horizon. (And just because a particular character or group may not have an available Essential of their own doesn't mean they can't be marked in some way.) And there will also be the occasional post about other collected editions or individual issues.

To kick off, this month I'll be looking at the next volume of several series where the reviews so far have had the highest number of views. Some were incredibly popular immediately after I posted then, others have been steady over time.