Manga and Comic Reviews
For those of you still wondering, “Wolverine Goes to Hell” remains my choice for the best comic book title of 2011. Not being content with that very minor accolade, Marvel has also served up what I consider to be the worst title of the year with the latest “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man” collection. Where “Wolverine’s” title […]
In any postapocalyptic situation, things eventually have to stop being about mere survival for those involved. There will come a time when people have to start considering the long-term approach to not just securing a place for themselves to live, but also how they’re going to want to rebuild society. If you are among the […]
… but actually it did. I’m saying this because Naoki Ursawa’s “20th Century Boys” is now a #1 New York Times bestseller. This is probably a one-week thing, but it’s still something I never thought I’d see even after the chart craziness of the past few months, let alone when it first came out. So […]
These two get put together because it would be a very short column for one or the other in any given month. Also of note is the fact that all trade paperbacks from Dark Horse are always advance-solicited, so all the trades mentioned here will be coming out in May. With that in mind… Dark […]
It’ll have been more than half a year since the “New 52” relaunch when March rolls around, and that means it’s time to start seeing some trades! Naturally the majority of these collections will be in hardcover first, but the decision to pick them up is always easier when it comes to DC. Mainly because […]
Don’t ask why it took three-and-a-half years for this to occur to me. It probably won’t surprise anyone that I regularly peruse the solicitations from the “big four” as they’re published each month over at Comic Book Resources. Naturally I’m looking to see what collections are being released, along with what format they’re in, their […]
Savor this one people, because it’s the last you’ll see of this series for a good year or more. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have been the most consistently excellent writer/artist team since the heyday of Ennis/Dillon, and I think it’s fantastic that they’ve continued to explore new territory in the crime/noir genres over the […]
I didn’t buy this one. My dad is a big fan of the TV series “Castle” and when he saw this graphic novel featured prominently in an episode earlier this season, he decided to pick it up himself. After he was done, I gave it a read to see what it was like. Overall, it […]
Osamu Tezuka’s proto-shoujo epic wraps up much as it began. In this second volume, the mangaka continues to churn through story concepts — Franz finding out Sapphire’s identity, Prince Plastic getting Sapphire’s boy heart, Sapphire on the brink of death with Captain Blood questing to a foreign land to save — at a shocking pace. […]
Remember when I said that the first volume of this series did a good job of conveying the “inner sadness” of its poor little rich boy protagonist’s life? Well, this second volume proceeds to do just about everything it can to undermine any sympathy I had for the character of Yozo Oba. After the events […]