Manga and Comic Reviews
The legend of King Conan lives on in this two-volume adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s only “Conan” novel! As part of recording the chronicle of his life, the beyond-grizzled, ultra-cantankerous Old King Conan relates the story of how he was deposed as King of Aquilonia through the sorcerous machinations of its former rulers who have […]
Spoiler Warning: These “Sacred Places” aren’t really all that interesting. Much like the previous volume, the majority of the stories here lack a clear direction to tell us why we should care about the title character’s ongoing journey. After freeing a captured woman, Grace, in the opening story, she follows Abe as he gets mixed […]
Only one volume left in Si Spurrier’s run on this incarnation of “X-Force.” Sadly, sales on this title managed to crater even faster than the previous run so it would appear that there really isn’t room in the market for an irreverent, quirky take on the most militant and proactive of mutant teams. I’m disappointed […]
I have yet to watch the finale of “Agent Carter” as I sit down to write this. Given the “never quite as good as it should be” quality of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” this event series has been more consistently entertaining and utilized its Marvel Universe setting in a far more satisfying way. While the whole […]
Two volumes in and it still feels like I know exactly where this series is going to go. This is mainly because it’s striking to see how movie-like “Prophecy’s” pacing is here. Volumes one and two really do read like the first two acts of a feature film. In the first volume we had the […]
This is one of those months where the company launches a lot of new titles. Which… doesn’t make it too different from most of the past ones I guess. Anyway, Ellis and Shalvey’s “Injection” debuts here along with a few other titles that sound like they have potential. There are a few that don’t, but […]
If you like reading about the exploits of military personnel who are really good at what they do, and subscribe to certain political views, then you’ll likely be entirely satisfied by this third (and final?) volume of “The Activity.” After a flashback to Fallujah during the second Iraq War, things return to the present as […]
I was prepared to talk about the new titles arriving post-”Convergence” in June, but then I read that “Lucifer” was getting a pilot order from Fox today. Now I really like the Mike Carey-written “Sandman” spinoff that effectively hails from the land of “far better than it has any right to be.” The problem here […]
There’s been some advance word on a couple of titles that bear looking out for from this company later this year: After being announced at last year’s Anime Expo, the first omnibus edition of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” arrives in August. (So, two solicitations from now.) Easily one of the best manga still being […]
Does mangaka Gamon Sakura really know what he’s doing with this series? That’s the question his characterization of Kei, the title’s protagonist, posed in the previous volume and things only get worse in that regard here. Granted, all of the stuff regarding the plans that Sato (A.K.A. “Hat”) has in store for the demi-humans of […]