Manga and Comic Reviews
We’re in the home stretch now. “Claymore” ended its magazine serialization back in October and the final, twenty-seventh, volume came out earlier this month in Japan. That’s actually quite reassuring as things have been steadily building towards a climax over the past few volumes, so it’s likely things will be going out on a high […]
I’m going to start things off on a down note: Based on sales of the single issues, it would appear that the forthcoming third volume of this title is going to be its last one. That’s a shame because writer Ian Edginton and artist Francisco Trifogli’s story about how creatures of fantasy and myth came […]
Back when I reviewed Kon’s “Tropic of the Sea,” I made the mistake of going into the manga expecting it to be the last great work of a genius who was taken from us too soon. (I was also mistaken about its length — this is his longest manga work.) As it turns out, my […]
Big things were promised for the issues contained within this volume, and Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley deliver on that promise in a way that I really didn’t expect. In fact, they do some stuff here that I’ve never seen done before in a superhero comic. Though a lot of it is played up for […]
I picked up this volume out of hope that the series would improve after the inauspicious start it presented in vol. 1. Guess what? Things did improve! Granted, the nature of the improvement doesn’t immediately turn this into a must-read title. In fact, the way things play out here make me wonder if mangaka Gamon […]
A man with a cut-out newspaper mask streams videos of his threats of violence on the internet before carrying them out. Now it’s up to the members of the Metropolitan Anti-Cyber Crimes Division to catch him and his helpers before he and his partners commit more crimes in the real world. However, public sentiment is […]
It’s close to the end of the year, so let’s revisit one of my ongoing concerns over the course of the year: Sales for “New Lone Wolf & Cub.” Not only is this a direct sequel to the best-selling Dark Horse manga of all time, but its success may determine what kind of manga we […]
I was planning on writing up my thoughts on “Prophecy,” a new manga from Vertical, but then I read this earlier today. After putting out five nice two-volumes-in-one hardcover editions of “Vinland Saga” in the space of a year, Kodansha U.S.A. has “temporarily” suspended publication of this excellent title. As announcements of this such go, […]
ONE MILLION COPIES! That’s how many the first issue of “Star Wars” is expected to sell when it debuts next month. I think you’d have to go back to the pre-crash days of the 90’s to find a comic that reached this level of sales. While I’m sure the A-list creative team of Jason Aaron, […]
A few months back, news broke that Brian Wood was going to be the new writer on Todd McFarlane’s long-running “Spawn” title. Through a combination of general apathy about “Spawn” and the dubious nature of McFarlane’s talent (as well as his trolling of Neil Gaiman over the rights to “Miracleman” over the years), I was […]