Manga and Comic Reviews
The last time I talked about this series, I said that it hadn’t become the great Shonen Jump title that everyone else said it was. Since then, it has made some great strides in that direction. Thug turned basketball man Sakuragi Hanamichi will never stop being an idiot, but his self-proclaimed genius as an athlete […]
In case anyone was wondering whether or not my favorite comic from last year has lost a step, let me assure you that it hasn’t. Mangaka Naoki Urasawa (with Takahashi Nagasaki in tow) continues to spin an absolutely riveting tale as he slowly parcels out information about the conspiracy at its heart. Things kick off […]
Just when you think they’ve run out of “Hellboy” comics to collect, a new volume shows up featuring stuff you either forgot about or didn’t know existed. This isn’t a proper volume of the series, but a collection of the two crossover mini-series featuring Batman and Jack “Starman” Knight in one and Ghost in the […]
This series has been coasting on goodwill from me for quite some time. With this volume, said goodwill has finally run out. I mean, how am I supposed to get excited or interested in a story that involves one of the hoariest of plot devices — amnesia — and runs through it in exactly the […]
… and my assessment that it looked like “Grumpy Old Retired Ex-Government Killers” turned out to be pretty spot-on. Outside of the basic premise of having a former CIA “problem solver” be hunted down by the Agency, the filmmakers took nothing from Warren Ellis’ and Cully Hamner’s comic. I’m glad that they both got a […]
This volume wasn’t as entertaining as the previous ones for the simple reason that it spends too much time hammering home the idea that Conan “isn’t ready for prime time” as a leader of men. After the previous volume saw the man ingratiate himself into the court (and bedchamber) of Princess Yasmela of Khoraja, this […]
The latest Vertigo Crime graphic novel comes from a writer who is no stranger to Vertigo or crime. Denise Mina writes crime fiction based in her native Scotland, but she’s best known to me for her thirteen-issue run on “Hellblazer.” It was a good run, most notable for how John Constantine wound up saving the […]
Now this is more like it. God knows I haven’t liked much of what I’ve read from Mark Millar this year. “Kick-Ass” the movie has the (dubious?) honor of being the first feature film comic book adaptation of this generation to be markedly better than its source material. While “Old Man Logan” had all the […]
Over the past year, I’ve had a friend of mine turn me on to the ongoing saga of Matt Wagner’s “Grendel” series. I’ve been reading everything from its origins with criminal mastermind Hunter Rose to the exploits of his “granddaughter” Christine Spar and her boyfriend Brian Li Sung as well as the far-future exploits of […]
I really liked the style and energy that writer Rick Remender brought to the adventures of hard-living, harder-drinking sci-fi jack-of-all-trades Heath Huston in the first volume of this series. It also had a real light touch as Heath barrelled from certain death in one set of circumstances to even more certain death in a completely […]