Manga and Comic Reviews
Oh man. With one scene in this third volume, “Mushoku Tensei” effectively cements itself as something just for the fanboys. It was my hope that the story would focus more on the redemptive aspects of Rudy Greyrat’s journey from reincarnated NEET to first-class wizard in this fantasy realm with the fanservicey bits firmly in the […]
Everyone, I want to say that I’m very disappointed in you. I know I’m a little behind the curve on this, but the outrage that you have shown in reaction to the surprise twist at the end of the first issue of “Captain America: Steve Rogers” suggests that none of you have been reading comics […]
It looks like most of the “Rebirth” launches have gone down all right. I’ve been reading some good reviews for most of them and there don’t appear to be any obvious misfires in the bunch. More mixed appears to be the company’s Hanna-Barbara relaunch. “Scooby Apocalypse” and “Wacky Raceland” appear to not be quite what […]
Not much to say about the company this month. There was the press release about the true crime graphic novel they published a few years back, “Green River Killer,” that went out today. Turns out that the graphic novel, written by Jeff Jensen with art from Jonathan Case, is going to be made into a […]
Writer Alex De Campi and artist Carla Speed McNeil struck a near-perfect balance of awfulness and excitement in the first volume of this series. There was always the chance that something could go wrong and that balance would be upset, but vol. 2 shows that these creators really know what they’re doing with this story […]
This took over a year longer to arrive than I expected, but it doesn’t matter! The final volume of this series has made it to print after the long delay had me fearing that we’d never find out how this series ends. It picks up shortly after the bit of (what I found to be) […]
Jeff Lemire takes on the “X-Men” and Bendis’ run isn’t even in the ground or cold yet over here. (But that’s coming, sooner that I was expecting.) The bad news is that due to Marvel’s decision to give additional prominence to the Inhumans — and get their own “X-Men”-esque film/TV franchise that they can have […]
Comics in digital format are making up an increasingly large part of what I read. While having a physical edition of what I’m reading is great, there are times when it doesn’t make sense to buy a comic in that format for two reasons. One is that they’re on sale, and the other is that […]
Nick Spencer’s other “Captain America” title may be the one grabbing all of the headlines, but it’ll be a while until it gets its first collected edition. What? You were expecting something snappier as I transition into talking about Sam Wilson’s adventures as Cap? Well, that’s kind of a problem with this volume even though […]
I really liked the first volume of this series, especially at the price it was being offered at on Amazon. In the months since I wrote that first review, my affection for it has actually grown. Mangaka Izumi Tsubaki really nailed the essence of character-driven comedy with that first volume of this series about a […]