Manga and Comic Reviews
What do you do to follow up a phenomenon like “Scott Pilgrim?” If you’re creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, then the answer is you take several years off to get your bearings and decide what your next move is. Then you pour all of your energy into creating a 300+-page graphic novel about a chef/restaurant owner […]
In this volume, Cyclops’ team finishes out their forced sojourn to Limbo, deal with one of their own quitting the team, lock horns with S.H.I.E.L.D., and take down a new-model Sentinel at a pro-mutant rally. So there’s a lot going on here in the six issues collected here even if their quality is somewhat uneven. […]
I can’t say that there was a whole lot of comics news that grabbed my attention coming out of Comic-Con this year. However, we were told in advance that Marvel would be unleashing their plans for “Star Wars” at the convention and they did not disappoint. Their announcements regarding the titles and the creative teams […]
That’s one more Comic-Con down. Even though the con was insanely packed as usual, it still felt pretty manageable to me. Maybe that’s because I’ve made it a habit to stay away from the craziness of the Hall H and Ballroom 20 lines and focus more on panels geared towards comic creators. Of course, it […]
It turns out that the manga news from Dark Horse at Anime Expo was just too big for one panel to contain. In addition to the new volume of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” and the “Panty & Stocking” anthology, we’re also getting an “Evangelion” parody manga from Tony Takezaki. I realize that most people […]
As I write this, in the last few days we’ve been hit with announcements of an all-new female Thor, Sam Wilson stepping into the role of Captain America and the “Superior Iron Man.” All of these announcements were either made through a major media outlet or got some form of attention outside of the usual […]
By the time you read this, the third Image Expo will have come and gone at the Hilton Bayfront before Comic-Con’s Preview Night kicks off. If you thought that Comic-Con tickets were hard to get ahold of, just know that the tickets for this sold out a minute after they went on sale. More than […]
It’s not being advertised as such, but October is turning out to be a big month for new #1 issues from DC Comics. We’ve got the start of the weekly “Earth 2: World’s End” series spinning out of its parent title. Having not read “Earth 2” (yet), I can say that the most notable thing […]
Garth Ennis was a featured guest at Comic-Con three years ago and his directorial debut was spotlighted at two of the panels I saw him at. Called “Stitched,” it featured the survivors of a downed Black Hawk chopper trying to make their way through a desolate part of Afghanistan. Along the way they encounter some […]
There’s a great line in “Misato Katsuragi’s ‘The Shinji Ikari Raising Project’ Report” (from the “Evangelion Comic Tribute” that Dark Horse brought over last year) that pretty much sums up the title it’s mocking. The segment basically takes Shinji’s propensity for tripping, falling, and winding up on one or more of the female cast in […]