Manga and Comic Reviews
New volumes of this series are an annual event and always one worth celebrating. Take this volume for instance, which covers over a decade of time yet doesn’t feel rushed at all. It also has an intriguing cliffhanger to pick up on. After reforming the shogunate and filling its coffers again, Yoshimune was riding high […]
The thought of this series taking another detour from the story of Jedi Dass Jennir and the crew of the Uhumele didn’t really strike me as a promising start for this story. Such detours haven’t worked out all that well for “B.P.R.D.” after all. Yet the more I read into this volume, the focus on […]
Otherwise known as, “The Series That’s Holding Up the Third Volume of ‘Phonogram.’” That being said, this is still a new work from one of comics’ most reliably entertaining and inventive teams, Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie. They knocked it out of the park on the first two volumes of “Phonogram,” the the issues of […]
Okay, after this one I’m thinking that they can give these “dated” flashback miniseries a rest. The two previous ones annoyed me (yes, even the one with art from Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon) because they felt like diversions that were keeping us from the more interesting main plot of the series. I was more […]
…off to a pretty good start. Last night’s premiere wasn’t mind-blowingly awesome, but it was suitably entertaining for a series that aims to give us a more grounded view of the Marvel Universe on a weekly basis. It’s not going to be all-superheroes all the time, as the pilot makes clear. The focus is on […]
If seeing junior high kids die after piloting the giant mecha Zearth has been enough drama to sustain this series over eight volumes, then showing us how their sole elementary school pilot accepts her fate should be even more dramatic. Right? That’s only partly true here. As we found out at the end of the […]
When we last left Garth Ennis’ MAX incarnation of Nick Fury he was fighting for French interests in the country everyone would later come to know as Vietnam and escaping Cuba after a botched attempt on Fidel Castro’s life. Not only is this the story of one man who lusts for combat and the means […]
I’ve written before about how great expectations can really affect my enjoyment of a given work. Brian Vaughan, Kaoru Mori, and Ed Brubaker have all found themselves on the receiving end of this sentiment at some point. “Tropic of the Sea,” is a special case. You see, this is the longest manga work from Satoshi […]
Consider this the beginning of the end for Hiroaki Samura’s epic. With Shira out of the way in spectacular fashion, the narrative now shifts back to Habaki Kagimura and his Rokki-dan’s efforts to wipe out the rest of the Itto-ryu and the maverick sword school’s work to counter that. That’s made clear as the bulk […]
So there was an article on Bleeding Cool last week talking about a new way for publisher marketshare to be measured that Marvel and Dark Horse have been pushing for. This new system would track retail share per item sold by Diamond. So rather than just a flat percent for “unit share” and “dollar share,” […]