Manga and Comic Reviews
Yeah, I’m not as impressed this time around. Most of the sex-themed humor has lost its appeal with a couple deeply misguided attempts to mine rape (implied and attempted) for humor early on. The narrative is also bogged down in countless circular arguments regarding whether or not what Maria is doing is good that come […]
Dark Horse announced some new manga licenses at their Anime Central panel over the weekend. They included “Giganto Maxia” by Kentaro Miura of “Berserk” fame, a license rescue of “RG Veda” by Clamp (previously published by Tokyopop), and a “Danganronpa” manga based on the anime which was based on the videogame. So far we’re well […]
Jason Aaron and Ron Garney have given us a lot of good stories together at Marvel over the years. Most of them involving Wolverine. For a writer and artist who like working together so much, it was only a matter of time before they decided to work on something creator-owned to show what they could […]
WonderCon? Yeah, it was over a month ago now and I’m still working on the last few volumes of “Appleseed” that I picked up there. This has been going on for about a week now. Long story short: My opinion of Masamune Shirow’s pre-”Ghost in the Shell” cyberpunk series hasn’t improved much over the years. […]
When does Remender’s penchant for breaking his protagonists down work best in a story? That would be when the protagonist in question is getting ready to be replaced. So even though Steve Rogers feels like a tired man out of time who is also one step behind the bad guys in his fight against the […]
It’s the crossover we never knew we needed! That’s what I’d like to be able to tell everyone about this long-awaited team up between the legendary barbarian and the cheese-dip wanderer. While it’s great to have more Groo comics — and see his creator, Sergio Aragones, back in action — after a lengthy hiatus, this […]
It’s a simple premise: Seki goofs off in elaborate ways in class while the girl who sits next to him, Yokoi, reacts to his actions. One would think that such a setup wouldn’t be enough to sustain an entire volume, but mangaka Takuma Morishige proved in the first volume that it had real legs in […]
This is the volume that made me miss the talking chainsaw. It was a minor detail from the initial volume, collecting the self-published issues of “The Goon” before creator Eric Powell brought it to Dark Horse. This was a thing that could be described as crazy, weird, and at odds with everything else in the […]
I may bitch about the abysmal shipping schedule for “Powers,” but it’s still a series which shows that Bendis and Oeming do great work together. It just takes them a lot longer to do it these days (and the link I provided being a rare exception to the rule). One of the reasons for that […]
It’s been a while since I started reading a new Shonen Jump title, but I’d forgotten about how most of them have a “getting acquainted” period for the first few volumes. As weekly titles, Jump series can take a while to hit their stride as they introduce their cast and flesh out their worlds. The […]