Manga and Comic Reviews
You should all know by now that I didn’t think Brian Wood’s last creator-owned series, “The Massive,” lived up to its potential. “Misguided” is the word I’d use to describe its mix of character-driven eco-political conflicts with a sci-fi/fantasy concept bolted onto the side of it. The concept for “Starve” is a lot more straightforward […]
There’s a new teaser from Marvel going around with the words “Dead No More” and a background that indicates it’s “Spider-Man” related. So who’s it going to be? I honestly wouldn’t put it past Marvel to do something crazy like bring back Uncle Ben. I’d bet money on that being the case if Dan Slott […]
Vol. 5 was where this series finally started living up to its potential, leaving me actually looking forward to the next volume for the first time ever. The good news is that vol. 6 keeps the excitement high as it starts off with an accounting of where everyone in Wausau is — both physically and […]
I had no idea this existed before I saw it for sale at a Book-Off in La Jolla a few weeks back. A graphic novel about the fall of the Templar order published by First Second and by “Prince of Persia” creator Jordan Mechner — how did this fly completely under my radar? Regardless of […]
Is this it? Kodansha Comics has already gone on record as saying that this will be the last volume of “Vinland Saga” published in the U.S. unless sales pick up. So if you like this series and haven’t already picked up all seven volumes, you’d better go do it now! If you haven’t, then vol. […]
I doubt we’ll ever see the original artist of “The Walking Dead,” Tony Moore, ever come back to that series for anything besides a variant cover. Meanwhile, over at “Invincible,” original artist Corey Walker just can’t seem to stop making return trips to that title after all these years. He usually shows up to pinch-hit […]
“Rebirth.” That’s the buzzword from DC publisher Dan Didio on Twitter, leading most everyone to think that the company is planning ANOTHER relaunch later this year. Rich Johnston seems to think that this will involve another round of new #1 issues and a tighter focus between the company’s TV and film projects. This year will […]
Not only is this a volume all about the organization’s ectoplasmic medium Johann, it’s also the concluding chapter to the story of Pvt. Patrick Redding that was started in “Sledgehammer ‘44.” Things start off on a down note as Johann finds himself to be at odds with the members of his current team after a […]
Hiroaki Samura has done a couple series since wrapping up his epic masterpiece “Blade of the Immortal.” This one is just the first to reach our shores. Expecting something on the same level of brilliance as his signature series would just be an exercise in setting myself up for disappointment. Yet this is likely to […]
One of these days I’ll eventually migrate to reading comics digitally instead of in print. Not yet, though. Not when titles like this, originally published online in a “pay what you want” metric can still find their way into being a physical product. (Particularly when the way involves a handshake deal between Brian K. Vaughan […]