Manga and Comic Reviews
This volume gives us five of the “Liberty” comics anthologies that the Comic Book Legal Defense fund has been publishing annually in a nice hardcover package. There’s a stunning array of talented creators involved with the stories inside this volume and I’m willing to bet that one of yours contributed something here. I got my […]
“Sandman” and “Preacher” are two of my all-time favorite comics and they both employ very different approaches to storytelling. The former is a literate foray into the supernatural and otherworldly that effectively creates its own world with constant experimental and genre-defying approaches to the stories it tells. As for the latter, it’s a far more […]
This volume collects one full arc, “Godkiller,” and the start of the title story. When I heard that this was how Marvel was going to package things, I found it a bit odd. After all, how compatible is a story that deals with the fallout from “Avengers vs. X-Men” going to be with one that […]
Now I know I expressed some concern about the upcoming finale of this series in my thoughts about the upcoming volume. After reading this one, I’m happy to report that they’ve been effectively dispelled. Things start off with an effective epilogue to Abayama’s battle in the previous volume as we find out about the time […]
(Now that I’m back from Fanime and no longer posting these through my phone, I’ve gone back and re-done the formatting for the previous four posts. For Comic-Con, I’ll just schedule these through the site itself — which is what I should’ve done here.) So it seems that Image’s success has bred competition. BOOM! Studios […]
There has been a lot of interesting information coming out of the Diamond Retailer Summit being held in Las Vegas this past week. Probably the most interesting bit (don’t worry about spoilers, they’re flagged at the bottom of the page) is the fact that Marvel is successfully teasing the fact that they might finally reboot […]
It seems that it’s time for one of DC’s periodic culls of its ongoing titles. With this latest batch of solicitations, the company announced that “All-Star Western,” “Superboy,” “Birds of Prey,” “Batwing,” “Trinity of Sin: Phantom Stranger,” and “Trinity of Sin: Pandora” will all be wrapping up in August. If you’re guessing by the fact […]
It’s the end of an era as the final “Star Wars” comics from the company are solicited here. Though I’ve already written plenty about this subject, the fact that they’re doing it now makes a good amount of sense. Not only are the actual issues solicited here, but the final trade paperbacks are being advance-solicited […]
I believe the title here is pretty self-explanatory. While there are a few titles I plan to give a full review of at some point, there were several things that I at least wanted to write something about. Also, with the solicitations coming out this week instead of the previous one, I needed to start […]
IT’S TIME TO BRING THE THUNDER — GOD! That’s right, we get a team-up with Thor in this volume as Banner and his lab rats make a trip to Jotunheim in search of a mythical liquid that’s said to only exist at subzero temperatures. Of course, this being Jotunheim that means the Frost Giants are […]