Manga and Comic Reviews
Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s series was the standout amongst Marvel’s initial round of “Star Wars” collections and this second volume shows that its quality wasn’t a fluke. Vader continues the rebuilding of his power base with an ambitious heist of a deceased crimelord’s fortune from the Empire. Though the act, masterminded by his associate […]
There’s a new volume of a certain manga being advance-solicited here! That’s right, after a year and a half of waiting, Dark Horse is finally releasing vol. 16 of “Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project.” Can you feel the excitement here! ARE YOU NOT YET ENTERTAINED!?!?!? …Ugh. Well, at least this means the […]
I actually had to go back and re-read Garth Ennis’ previous “Phantom Eagle” miniseries, surtitled “War Is Hell,” to refresh my knowledge of the main character. That’s because Karl Kaufmann comes off in this story as an arrogant, self-entitled little shit that deserves every indignity heaped upon him here. As opposed to the previous miniseries […]
The series comes to a satisfying end, even though I was expecting a bit more after the build-up from the previous volume. By all rights the highlight of vol. 12 should’ve been the cat-and-mouse duel between Amuro and Char given the way their paths have crossed over the course of the series and the sheer […]
When it was announced that this “Secret Wars: Warzones!” miniseries would focus on a married — with child — Spider-Man, I thought I knew what the story would be about. We’d get to see how Peter Parker would handle these things while interacting with other heroes and villains in some semblance of current Marvel continuity. […]
Here’s another one to file under the “Why did it take so long for this to get a collected edition?” category. For years, Garth Ennis’ run on “The Demon” stood as the only long-form comics work from the creator (in America, at least) that had yet to be collected. It’s kind of surprising considering that […]
How did a “Batman” comic co-written by Mike Mignola manage to go without a collected edition for nearly fifteen years? We may never know the exact answer, but it wasn’t because “The Doom That Came to Gotham” wasn’t a good “Elseworlds” series. This three-part miniseries, co-written by Richard Pace with art from Troy Nixey, takes […]
The previous volume left off on a dramatic cliffhanger as Elias, enraged by the wounding of Chise, began to lose his human form and revert to his natural one. What follows is a rousing sequence of action and drama as the two, and those in their immediate vicinity face off against Joseph, a.k.a. Cartaphilus, a.k.a. […]
Let me see if I can recap things correctly here: In the previous volume, little baby Starlina blew up her dad while on a sugar high while Admiral Tiger Eating a Cheesburger invaded the Earth and the Anti-Mugger was arrested for mugging! This is all followed by Starlina being abducted by the inhabitants of the […]
With his signature creation, “The Goon,” appearing to have gone off the rails in its most recent outing, I was wondering if creator Eric Powell’s best days were behind him. “Big Man Plans” proves that this isn’t the case. It’s the story of an unnamed dwarf who goes through life suffering every indignity and cruelty […]