Manga and Comic Reviews
After three volumes, and many hard-fought battles the crew of White Base finally makes it to the Federation’s South American base. There’s plenty more hardship to be had as key members of the supporting cast find their moment to shine… before being snuffed out. “Gundam” has been an engaging read up to now as it’s […]
Now this is more like it! The first volume of Makoto Yukimura’s viking epic contained over a hundred thrilling pages that set the stage for the story in dramatic fashion. They were then followed by a few hundred more of a flashback to earlier days in the lives of our protagonist and one of the […]
The second ImageCon, held earlier this month had some fantastic announcements coming out of it. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips signing a five-year exclusivity deal along with a new title “The Fade-Out,” Rick Remender and Scott Snyder launching a new title each while Nick Spencer launches three, Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham re-teaming for a […]
“Vaughan was last seen working on a revival of Swamp Thing over at Vertigo, which is tantamount to wearing a sign around your neck saying ‘I am not Alan Moore, please kick me’.” — Paul O’Brien, The X-Axis It’s been years since I first read that quote, but it sums up the general state of […]
Lots of changes this month in the solicitations. There are a couple prominent series like “Nightwing” and “Teen Titans” ending, low-selling ones like “Stormwatch” getting the axe, and new high-profile debuts like “Batman Eternal” and “Sinestro.” Save for “Batman,” there’s not a whole lot that interests me in the latest bout of culling and churning […]
At least, that’s what the title is on the cover depending on your interpretation of the layout. The copyright info inside calls this “The Complete Multiple Warheads.” So this may be all we’re getting of organ-smuggler Sexica and her double-dicked werewolf boyfriend Nikolai and the crazy world they live in. Or it might not. Creator […]
Unfortunately the biggest news about the company in the last month is still the revelation that “Star Wars” will be headed to Marvel next year. I’d like to think that Publisher Mike Richardson and the rest of his team have been preparing for this inevitability and have found ways to shore up revenue or are […]
Remember what I said last week about the possibility of a $4.99 monthly price point for Marvel or DC comics? Also how the only way they could pull off such a thing would be by offering a corresponding increase in value (read: page count)? Well, there’s a lot of that going around in the comics […]
I’ve mentioned once or twice that some comics I read were bad enough to be sold to BookOff, the Japanese used book/DVD/Blu-ray/videogame chain that also has branches in the U.S. Because that’s the worst fate I can imagine for a series that either offends me so, or I can’t remember why I cared about them […]
This title is still in a rebuilding phase after the dramatic events that kicked off the previous volume. Even so, vol. 8 still has plenty of scenes that provide deliciously painful entertainment from seeing the polite veneer of Japanese society pulled back to see what lurks underneath. The title’s “stock in trade,” in other words. […]