Manga and Comic Reviews
There’s no denying that Marvel has a lot of interesting creative teams lined up for their post-”Secret Wars” relaunch: Bendis/Marquez on “Invincible Iron Man,” Soule/Garney on “Daredevil,” Lemire/Ramos on “Extraordinary X-Men.” I could go on, but what gets me about this whole event is how many of these titles are simply relaunches of ones that […]
I was hoping that the assassination duel between Ms. Jelavitch and her teacher was going to have the end result of making her into a worthwhile character. I was wrong. If anyone comes out of this looking better, it’s Karasuma. Not only does he take down the senior assassin, his capitulation to his fellow teacher […]
Even if I’ve yet to be blown away by something that Charles Soule has written, I appreciate the fact that he keeps his comics going at a brisk pace and never stops throwing new things at the reader. While this approach can get ridiculous, as seen in his crazy-train creator-owned comic “Letter 44,” his work […]
Even though Bendis has been setting up a lot of things in his run so far — Mystique kidnapping and replacing Dazzler, the sentinel attacks from unknown sources, tension between Scott’s team and S.H.I.E.L.D. — I wasn’t sure if he was actually going to pay off on any of that or if things would have […]
Despite having died in his first storyline, original “Grendel” Hunter Rose has had quite a prolific publishing afterlife. Among the miniseries and anthologies chronicling his exploits, the character even found the time to take on Batman in a two-part story from original creator Matt Wagner. I mention “Batman/Grendel” because without that precedent, this miniseries pitting […]
With the final issue of Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s “Satellite Sam” due out any day now, the setting for the second series has already been announced. It’ll be jumping coasts to L.A. and instead of focusing on the making of a sci-fi TV show, the action will be centered around a western. I’m honestly […]
There’s been a major development for this series in the time since my last review. It was announced that “Ajin” will become an anime film trilogy in Japan sometime soon. While this is good news for creator Gamon Sakurai, I can only hope that whoever is making these films uses this as an opportunity to […]
For me, “Battle of the Atom” was the most underwhelming “X-Men” crossover in recent memory. Even though it had some interesting ideas, there weren’t enough to sustain what was basically a fourteen-issue fight scene. There was plenty of nice art, however. So the idea that Bendis is revisiting the characters he created for that arc […]
Who here remembers the good old days when “Civil War” was being serialized? Specifically, the delays between issues that caused corresponding tie-in issues to be delayed themselves in order to not spoil the events of the main series. Like the Punisher’s dramatic return to the Marvel Universe after spending some time away in MAX-land with […]
Getting a special above-the-board mention this month is B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth #135. Why? Because the solicitation text mentions that this is the start of the final “Hell on Earth” arc. This doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the series. Were I a betting man, I’d assume that the series will be getting a new […]