Manga and Comic Reviews
I didn’t expect the first volume of this series to grow on me as much as it did while I was reading it. The end result was that I wound up looking forward to reading the next volume more than I thought I would. Creator/co-writer Robert Kirkman and artist Shawn Martinbrough are still onboard, but […]
Do I have anything to say about Image right now? Not a damn thing at the moment. Of course, I am coming down from the high of attending Fanime in San Jose since Thursday. Even though I went with John for an extra day this year, the con didn’t seem to last any longer because […]
So I did get out to see “Iron Man 3” a couple weeks back and was thoroughly impressed by what I saw. Though it didn’t quite capture the “shock of the new” that the first film had, it was still a big step up from the previous one in that it gave us an actual […]
Going back to “The Beat” again, there was an article from last week that asked the question, “Is Dark Horse Entering a Golden Age?” Writer Hannah Means-Shannon, who also did the article about the “Essential DC Graphic Novels” cites the company’s long reliance on (quality) licensed titles like “Star Wars” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” […]
The Beat posted a breakdown of the “DC Entertainment Essential Graphic Novels” promotional magazine that came out recently. It contains 25 titles in the list and is full of titles that deserve the “essential” tag (“Sandman” vol. 1, “The Dark Knight Returns,” “Saga of the Swamp Thing” vol. 1), some that are just good (“American […]
I said over a year ago that the finale of Grant Morrison’s “Batman” run was shaping up to be nothing less than awesome, and this latest/new/unrebooted volume of “Batman, Incorporated” goes a long way towards proving that. With the mastermind behind the globe-spanning criminal organization known as Leviathan revealed to be Talia Al’Ghul, the true […]
Reading this volume makes me wish that Nick Spencer would take some time and read through all of Naoki Urasawa’s “20th Century Boys.” Though both of their series are very different in style and tone, at their cores they deal with mysteries that slowly unfold over a long period of time. What gives Urasawa’s series […]
Everyone who has read my reviews of this series so far should know by know that while I enjoy it a great deal, there’s always been one thing holding it back. The “romance” between Moritaka and his “girlfriend” Miho; or rather, the complete lack thereof due to their idiot promise at the start of the […]
Grant Morrison got the chance to rebuild Superman from the ground up in the first volume to entertaining, if not spectacular, results. In the second, he digs deeper into the Man of Steel’s status quo and we get a story that takes a look at what happens when he feels that Clark Kent’s identity is […]
When we last left our protagonists, THEY WERE PRETTY MUCH FUCKED! Thrust into Italy along with several other Gantz teams right into a mission gone horribly, horribly wrong with the aliens in question slaughtering everyone. That continues straight into this volume as Kei, Kato, and the rest of the crew try to handle the chaos […]