Manga and Comic Reviews
As promised, and to wrap up the year, my thoughts on vol. 2 of “Hetalia:” If you liked the first one, you’ll like this too. Seriously. There’s really not much else to say about this. It doesn’t feel as unfocused as the first volume, but there’s still no real narrative tying everything together. So you […]
Another one of my favorite titles from last year is still very entertaining in its fifth volume. However, the reasons for that are turning out to be quite different from what I was expecting after reading the first two volumes. The first volume set up a fascinating alternate history of Japan where the Edo era […]
This volume collects the last four issues of the ongoing series, but as with “Incredible Hercules” there will be a follow-up mini-series to give proper closure to the story. That said, “Extremes” does an excellent job of cramming a lot of action into its pages. We start off with the evacuation of the planet Dac […]
Yes, the title is very long and silly, but also quite apt. This is a collection of shorts about a female mangaka named F-mi Y-naga who specializes in drawing yaoi manga and frequenting restaurants with good food. She is IN NO WAY a thinly-veiled self-portrait of the person who wrote and illustrated this volume, Fumi […]
With the mutant race now saved, growing (a little), and still fairly hated and feared writer Matt Fraction kicks off the post-”Second Coming” era by getting back to basics. This is in the sense that the main story in this collection is about doing two things that we haven’t seen in the X-titles for a […]
This is technically vol. 8 of the ongoing “Incredible Hercules” saga, but the first since the series was “cancelled.” That’s because while the series ended with the last volume, the story goes on in the two mini-series collected here. First we get the two-issue mini “Hercules: Fall of an Avenger,” where many notable heroes of […]
If you’ve been following my thoughts on this series from the podcasts, then you’ll know that the first two volumes of this series left me with deeply mixed feelings. While mangaka Felipe Smith is a very talented artist who also has a keen eye for satire, he also has an over-the-top approach to his work […]
Well, it’s nice to know that they, actually have plans. After months of silence, a cancelled panel at the NY Comic-Con and the announcement that they’d be taking over publishing most of Del Rey’s titles, we finally found out what they’ll be publishing next summer. It’s a combination of new titles, license rescues from other […]
In this volume, Yotsuba gets her very own teddy bear. She names him Juralumin. He can even “talk” by making “Mweeeeeeh” sounds when he’s held the right way. When he does this during dinner at a yakiniku restaurant, Jumbo asks her what he said. She translates his response as, “Later… I’ll make… Yanda cry.” Then […]
It is, quite frankly, impossible to hate a comic that begins with its main character, gun in hand, pointing out to his blood-splattered girlfriend that this was not exactly a conventional first date. Really, any comic that then goes on to incorporate a caveman fighting sabertooth tigers, the intrigue surrounding a prize fighting rooster, a […]