Manga and Comic Reviews
This French graphic novel came to my attention after the film that was based on it won the Palme D’Or at Cannes last year. It tells the story of a high school girl, Clementine, who is living a normal life until she meets the blue-haired Emma first in passing and then again in a bar. […]
Make no mistake: The first volume of this series was one of the funniest things I’ve read all year! It’s a special thing to see creators run through the tropes inspired by “Aliens” and countless other sci-fi works without the slightest bit of self-awareness and utterly convinced that what they’re doing is special and worth […]
When you’re trying to describe something that is a hybrid of a couple different influences and/or genres, there’s always the risk of coming off as too clever and disappearing up your ass in the process. After all, what the hell does “Louis C.K. meets Robert E. Howard in a David Fincher universe” even mean? On […]
Everyone who reads this blog is probably aware that not only does this event have the same name as the subtitle for the “Avengers” sequel, but that the movie has nothing to do with the storyline of the comic. So anyone who picks this up after seeing the movie next year is going to be […]
Being a dedicated fan of Jonathan Hickman, I’ll buy pretty much anything with his name on it these days. Including this, a series he created for Avatar and co-wrote the first six issues with Mike Costa. I can only imagine that the company’s Editor In Chief, William Christensen, offered Hickman the chance to come up […]
It seemed like I was in the minority when it came to appreciating Sam Humphries’ take on “Uncanny X-Force.” No, it didn’t have a stated purpose and just had the adventures of an eclectic group of mutants as its focus, but he took the cast in some interesting directions and had a few well-played surprises […]
In this latest volume, Spider-Man’s *ahem* superior foes face off against one of the necessary evils of the comics industry. The Fill-In Issue(s)! Tossing out an issue by creators other than the people who regularly work on a title to keep it on a monthly schedule has become an increasingly rare sight in the industry […]
While these solicitations cover what we’ll get from the company at the end of the year, a couple titles that will be coming out in 2015 (or further) have also got my attention this week. Image will be publishing an English version of the French series “Red Skin” (to be retitled “Red One”) with art […]
My experience in reading the previous volume of this title left me concerned for its future. What had once been a dense, thoughtful, sci-fi martial-arts extravaganza had apparently turned into a fairly simple sci-fi adventure story. Then it was announced that mangaka Yukito Kishiro was ending the series and I thought that “Last Order” had […]
It turns out that the finale of “Time Runs Out” and whatever DC is planning for the month of their move to the West Coast are happening at the same time. Based on that and some interesting coincidences in the comics that shipped this week, some are speculating that this could lead to the first […]