Manga and Comic Reviews
This series finally started delivering on the disturbing things it had been trying to illustrate in previous volumes with the fifth one. The good news is that things get even worse for our protagonists here! In the wake of the fire on the riverbank, Takao gets a visit from some policemen, grounded, a visit from […]
I was fully expecting the upward trend which started with the second volume to continue here, but that doesn’t quite happen. Rather, we get a flattening of the quality curve here as Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips take some time to tell side-stories of the “Fatale” universe and show us that Josephine’s “condition” has not […]
This has been a looooooong time coming. They were joking at the “Best and Worst of Manga” panel at Comic-Con last year that 2013 may be the year this collection finally ships. Well it has and the results are going to be most appealing to those who prefer art over story. “Panorama Island” is the […]
(This originally started off as the lead-in text to the next round of “DC Previews Picks.” Then I got going for a little bit and it wound up too large for that. So, here you are!) So I skipped out on offering my thoughts on “Man of Steel” after I saw it after being deluged […]
It’s a striking cover image, to be sure. The sight of a knight in full plate armor charging towards the reader on a horse with his spear outstretched with German text and a design sense that screams “middle ages” lets you know that this isn’t like your usual manga. However, on the back cover there’s […]
After years of not going to North America’s largest anime convention, I dropped by for a day yesterday after some friends said they were going and wanted to know if I’d be interested. I figured that regardless of how the day went, it’d be worth it to hang out with them regardless of how my […]
If you’re wondering who this Garma person is and why he’s so important that this volume bears his name, you can rest assured that your questions will be answered by the end of the volume. As head of the Principality of Zeon’s North American forces, it has become his job to capture White Base and […]
In July of 1986 freelance photographer Didier Lefevre left France to document a Doctors Without Borders operation in Afghanistan. This was during the time of the Soviet invasion, which not only complicated their journey but also ensured that they’d have their work cut out for them upon arriving in country. Lefevre took four thousand photos […]
As far as I’m concerned, it’s an ingenious “Why didn’t I think of this?” premise. Take a doctor whose skills are matched only by his arrogance (like “House, M.D.”) and make his specialty dealing with all manner of supernatural ailments, parasites, and beasts (of the kind that we saw on “The X-Files”). Right there you […]