Manga and Comic Reviews
All those nice things I said about the cover of the first volume? Yeah, none of that applies here. Instead of something to set this apart from the crowd, we get some tawdry pseudo-bondage that thrusts the tits of the main female character into the reader’s face. You get the feeling that the first volume […]
At this point there’s very little to say about this series beyond the familiar refrain that it continues to provide a great example of the minimum standard of quality a superhero title needs to have in order to survive in this market. Waid and artist Chris Samnee (with guest artist Michael Allred in this volume) […]
This stands as one of the most gloriously stupid things I’ve ever read in my life! If you consider that a recommendation, then your next step should be clear. However, if you don’t then whatever I say next won’t likely change your mind in the slightest. So let me say that this series begins with […]
This may be a stand-alone graphic novel, but it’s an indispensable read for anyone who has been following the series so far. Two stories are being told in this volume: One involves Winston Taylor relating the genesis of the first “Tommy Taylor” novel through his journals. The other is the actual story of the book […]
Greg Rucka has been away from the creator-owned game for too long. While I’ve enjoyed his superhero work on titles like “Detective Comics,” “52,” “Wolverine,” and “The Punisher” (except for that last volume) it’s his work apart from that genre that has been the most memorable. If you’ve never read either volume of “Whiteout” or […]
While the pairing of writer Scott Snyder and artist Jock made “Batman: The Black Mirror” something that was certainly worth a look, the collection’s other artist was an unknown quality. I liked Jock well enough that the thought of having an unknown named Francesco Francavilla handle the in-between chapters didn’t sound all that appealing. My […]
More good news for the company: “The Walking Dead” #115, the tenth anniversary issue that kicks off the “All Out War” arc and comes with 15 interlocking covers, is the best selling issue of the year (so far, at least) with around 350K orders. New titles “Velvet,” by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting and “Pretty […]
How good is this series? So good that when it devotes the majority of a volume to its least interesting protagonist and storyline, the series still manages to be pretty compelling. I refer to aspiring wheelchair basketball ace Kiyoharu Togawa, who takes the spotlight again after several volumes in the background. Though he clearly has […]
After years of lawsuits, speculation, confusion, anticipation, and that one time when Todd McFarlane kinda sorta put him into the “Spawn” story in the Image 10th Anniversary Hardcover: “Miracleman” is returning to comics. At this point, the story of how Marvel’s legal team got all of the rights to the title and characters may make […]
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the soft reset. When we last left the disturbed, doomed romantic pair of Kasuga and Nakmura, they had made their way onto a float during the town’s Summer Festival. With a knife. Also calling out the entire town as, “Shitbugs.” That was a great cliffhanger and mangaka Shuzo Oshimi doesn’t […]