Sometimes, the staff at Graphic Policy read more comics than we’re able to get reviewed. When that happens you’ll see a weekly feature compiling reviews of the comics, or graphic novels, we just didn’t get a chance to write a full one for.

These are Graphic Policy’s Mini Reviews and Recommendations.

Logan

Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1 (Marvel) – Although it features expertly rendered art from Joe Quesada and warmly nostalgic coloring and letters from Richard Isanove and Richard Starkings, Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1 is a self-indulgent epilogue to Priest‘s iconic run on Black Panther. It’s both self-serious and parody with Priest’s narrator (Still Everett Ross!) poking fun at his non-linear storytelling. Priest goes back and forth in time without spending enough time to set up each era. Even the notes in the back feel like half-baked worldbuilding compared to other potential futures in the Marvel Universe, and some of Priest’s word and dialogue choices are cringeworthy. I feel like this comic might have been fun in 1998, but it feels like moldy leftovers in 2025. Joe Quesada deserved some better scripts for his return to interiors. (Thankfully, Marvel Knights #1 is less wordy than Kevin Smith’s Daredevil.) Overall: 5.3 Verdict: Pass

Imperial #1 (Marvel) – Jonathan Hickman, Iban Coello, and Federico Vicentini‘s Imperial is a little space opera, a little mystery, and a whole lot of fun. Heads of state across the cosmic side of the Marvel Universe are getting poisoned included Hulk’s estranged son Skaar, and a disparate cast of characters must find out who’s responsible before the universe breaks out into war. Imperial #1 is full of political intrigue, but what’s really compelling is the tension between father and son represented between Peter Quill and J’Son of Spartoi and the aforementioned Hulk and Skaar. Richard Rider’s Nova presence is welcome too, and Hickman, Coello, and Vicentini ably balance space action and passive aggressive backstabbing. Imperial #1 is an epic first salvo in a blockbuster summer event series that (as far as I know) doesn’t require reading 20 other books. Overall: 8.7 Verdict: Buy

Godzilla Heist #4 (IDW Publishing) – Van Jensen, Kelsey Ramsay, and Heather Breckel get the job done in this fast-paced penultimate issue of the heist/double crosses with giant monsters miniseries. Protagonist Jai comes face to face with a mad scientist and his mother’s invention Mechagodzilla all the while Godzilla is rampaging through London. Godzilla Heist #4 is light on the Godzilla and heavy on the heist with Jai spending the issue trying to get out of a very stressful situation punctuated by Breckel’s use of reds. There are also some flashbacks, a wee bit of character growth for Jai, and plenty of gun play and hand to hand action setting up a battle royale in the finale. Overall: 7.9 Verdict: Buy