Manga and Comic Reviews
“Plot development? In MY The Shinji Ikari Raising Project?” Is part of what’s said on the back of this latest volume in the series which I’ve referred to in the past as my guiltiest comic book reading pleasure. The problem is that there actually has to be some kind of plot first before there can […]
I’ve written regularly about my issues with Dark Horse manga over the years, yet I’ve come to realize something over this past year. Consider all of the series that I’ve been reading this year that have ended: “20th Century Boys,” “Tenjo Tenge,” “Bakuman,” “Saturn Apartments,” and “Slam Dunk.” They’re all titles published by Viz. For […]
Two volumes in and I think I’ve realized why this series isn’t clicking for me yet. In the wake of “DMZ,” this was the title I was most looking forward to from Brian Wood in the wake of his profile-boosting work on “X-Men,” “Conan,” and “Star Wars.” After all, the common wisdom in the industry […]
For a while, I was afraid that we’d have to wait until sometime in 2014 for another volume of this series. Then the solicitations informed me that vol. 8 would be arriving just in time for the holidays. “Empowered” has been a consistently entertaining series, in spite of its excesses, and that continues here as […]
If anything, the biggest problem I have with Dan Slott’s Dr. Octopus-as-Spider-Man uber-storyline is that I keep hearing Doc Ock’s voice in my head instead of Peter Parker’s. I don’t just mean his internal monologues, but his regular speaking voice as well. Everyone in the story remarks about how the character sounds the same, yet […]
So the upcoming issue #27 of “Detective Comics” is a Really Big Deal for DC. I realize this must be common knowledge for a lot of people who read this blog, but in case you’re not aware of this bit of comics history, Batman’s first appearance was in the first issue #27 of “Detective Comics” […]
While I like the idea of an X-Men team made up of the most prominent members of their female cast, and written by Wood as well, there’s still the matter of what distinguishes it from the other titles. “Uncanny” is about Cyclops’ rogue team, “Wolverine and the” focuses on the school, and “All New” is […]
In the previous volume for this series… Actually, that was the first one I didn’t talk about here. It wasn’t that it was bad or even disappointing, just that it continued on from what had come before in fairly seamless fashion. Yes, we got the start of an extended arc about the Gauna sending an […]
What the normal transcript of Image solicitations for this March didn’t tell you was that there were three “classified” entries — one of them priced at $60. It has since been revealed that all of these entries involve David Lapham’s classic indie series “Stray Bullets.” Lapham published forty issues of the series himself before finding […]
It’s not that I thought the first volume of Humphries’ take on this title was bad, just that it lacked a clear identity to differentiate itself from the other books in the line. Back in the old days (read: the 90’s) his story about Psylocke, Storm, Puck, and Bishop’s struggle against the revenants would’ve fit […]