Manga and Comic Reviews
A few weeks ago, Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool reported that Vertigo’s original graphic novel line was part of the “walking dead.” This is in the sense that no new OGNs were being scheduled and the only ones that will be seeing release are those too far along in the production cycle to be […]
Or, part one of the redemption of Matty Roth. It’s not called that because I imagine writer Brian Wood finds such sentimentality anathema to his style. The volume’s title comes from the dead soldiers Matty finds in a crashed helicopter while hiding out from pretty much everyone after the tragic events of the previous volume. […]
A few months back, I was really bitchy somewhat critical of the titles Kodansha announced after they assumed control of Del Rey’s line. It’s not that any of those titles sounded bad, just that there didn’t seem to be any targeted to me to a more mature readership. Flash forward to earlier this week and […]
If you’ve been hanging around comics news sites on the internet as long as I have, then you’ve probably heard a lot about this series. Specifically, how good it is, how it influenced a lot of other series, and how it has yet to be collected. Over a year ago I picked up the miniseries […]
This volume represents the longest story the series has told to date. In fact, it’s so long that I didn’t realize at first that it actually started in the previous volume. Go figure. Anyway, Misaki is still on vacation at a hot springs resort in Hakone, trying her best to escape from the pressures and […]
It’s a new Heroic Age in the Marvel Universe and Tony Stark enters into it flat broke and missing his memory of nearly everything that’s happened since he was upgraded with Extremis. So what’s a former billionaire playboy to do now? Apparently the answer is to take the technology that the Iron Man is built […]
Yes, it’s still incredibly awesome. I’m not going to bore you with the details since you’re all well aware that I drank the Kool-Aid for this series quite some time ago. Instead, some observations: If you told be back when I was reading, say, vol. 3 that twenty volumes later that the Itto-Ryu’s ambitions would […]
Brendon Connelly had a chance to speak to Warren Ellis in connection with the upcoming DVD release of “Red” over at Bleeding Cool. It’s a short interview, but interesting to read for Ellis’ perspective on the movie and its potential sequel. More interesting to me was what he said about his involvement with Marvel’s anime […]
Twin brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon are phenomenal artists. Anyone who has seen their work in “The Umbrella Academy,” “Sugarshock,” “Casanova,” and “B.P.R.D. 1947” should know that they excel in realizing the strangest of worlds while giving the characters that grounds them, and the reader, in the work. Before this, I had never read […]
You knew this was coming. With an inevitability matched only by death and taxes, the next step of any major A-list superhero who “dies” is their return. Though Bruce Wayne’s apparent demise was meant to be one of the climactic parts of writer Grant Morrison’s “Final Crisis,” I doubt that any fanboy who read that […]