Manga and Comic Reviews
Working forward from last month, DC’s big “We’re moving to Burbank in March and April of next year and need something stockpiled to cover for it!” event is called “Convergence.” It’ll be spinning out of the ends of the finales for two of their weekly series “Earth 2: World’s End” and “Future’s End” with a […]
“Action-packed” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this series or manga from Kaoru Mori in general. Yet it’s a fitting description for this volume of “A Bride’s Story as armed conflict breaks out between the people of Amir’s city and her family’s tribe. After her brother, Azel, and his friends […]
So here we are with the latest relaunch of the Ultimate Universe. It’s most likely going to be the last if the “The End” teaser they’re running for it as part of the upcoming “Secret Wars” event turns out to be the real thing. Frankly, I’m hoping it is. While the imprint has resulted in […]
Alright, you’ve got a series that has won universal acclaim, a couple Eisners, and has even managed to defy (to a certain extent) the industry trend of declining sales with each issue. How do you follow something like that up? If you guessed “Have the series suffer through some unexplainable delays while additional artists come […]
After that encounter with the “Fables” crew, Tom Taylor takes the long way back to reality at the start of this volume. It involves him travelling through archetypal stories like “The Ugly Duckling” through “Alice in Wonderland” and even “The Chronicles of Narnia.” These scenes initially come off as confusing, leaving you to wonder just […]
Garth Ennis makes his annual return to the series he created with artist Jacen Burrows and then turned over to generally less capable hands. I don’t know why it seems that most other creators want to relish in the goriest parts of “Crossed’s” premise, but that’s usually how it turns out. Only Ennis, and Si […]
This volume of Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s sci-fi western features a lot of things going from bad to worse. Xiaolan seeks to stir things up at a meeting of the heads of nations, and two people wind up dead by treachery not of her own design. Meanwhile, her (ex?) husband Death takes it to […]
It’s the eye of the tiger/ It’s the thrill of the fight/ Rising up to the challenge of our rivals… Wait, where was I with this title? Ah yes, Musashi was still looking for the key to progress as a swordsman and is determined to find it while being a surrogate father to an orphaned […]
Well, it turns out that I was wrong and we did get a new volume of this series this year. It’s also a pleasant surprise to see that the stories collected here skew more towards comedy than drama. After all, where else are you going to see a zombie with dynamite stuffed inside, living department […]
After the first volume presented a whole lot to take in, this latest one finds the series settling into a fairly decent groove with its warts-and-all look at the early days of television. This is mainly because it does a better job of making the main plot as interesting as its many subplots. You’d think […]