Manga and Comic Reviews
After his latest face-off against Dr. Dinosaur (who didn’t actually have a savage sword) EVERYTHING CHANGED for Robo and his buddies at Tesladyne as they were hassled by Majestic 12. How do you follow up on something like that? By telling a story that stops the series’ momentum cold. While it was clear for the […]
In case the title of this post wasn’t expository enough for you, Anime News Network has reported that the crown jewel of Tokyopop’s manga line will be coming back into print. Mind you, that’s “crown jewel” as I see things. Over the course of five volumes in the U.S., Makoto Yukimura’s sci-fi series managed the […]
The saga of the Avengers’ horrible, no-good, very bad day comes to a close here as Nick Spencer wraps up his run in a tidy fashion with this volume. Looking back on things, it becomes clear that even though the book was pitched as the “global” Avengers book that picked up on some of Hickman’s […]
Unlike the last volume, “Indestructible Hulk vol. 4: Humanity Bomb” actually tells a coherent story. More remarkable is the fact that Mark Waid manages to tell an interesting story in spite of the deeply uninteresting “Inhumanity” setup he’s saddled with. With the terrigen mists transforming transforming random people throughout the country into Inhumans, Bruce Banner […]
While we’re on the subject of series that are marching towards their end, “Claymore” has reached its penultimate volume. Regrettably, as has been the case with the last couple of volumes, there’s more bland action than exciting plot revelations here. This series has always been “Berserk Lite,” but it nevertheless managed to conjure up an […]
I’m going to miss this series when it’s gone. That time is coming up soon as we’re now three-quarters of the way through its planned 60-issue run — the panel of Older Applebee telling Older Chu how much he hates him in the final issue is starting to feel tangible at this point. It’s because […]
500K+ orders for the first issue of “Secret Wars” in the direct market alone. It’s no “Star Wars,” but those are “Amazing Spider-Man #1” numbers from last year, and that had the benefit of whatever momentum the film brought to that launch. So it would appear that the Marvel Hype Machine has pulled off an […]
The reason you don’t see much shoujo manga featured on this site is mainly because I’m a guy. Shocking, I know. I do have a friend who was a fiend for the stuff and I could browse through her library and check out all the stuff that looked interesting. I wouldn’t have read titles like […]
Here is a miniseries that very much wants to be like one of those movies with a sprawling cast of characters whose lives start to interconnect over the course of its running time. It’s the death of a woman that gets the plot in motion after she falls to her death from a building onto […]
In the pantheon of late comics, “Nonplayer” is a special case. There have been many series where there was a big fuss about the first issue, and then disappeared completely after delays destroyed its moment and/or people realized that what they had bought was total crap. (This happened most often with a lot of Image […]