Manga and Comic Reviews
One night while walking home from a dinner date, Paul Dini was mugged and beaten within an inch of his life. Twenty-three years later, he decided to turn the story of the attack, his life at the time, and eventual recovery into a graphic novel with art from someone who is no stranger to Batman’s […]
Does Nagisa go a little crazy after the setup from the cliffhanger in the previous volume? Yup. Does he manage to rein himself in and deliver some satisfying comeuppance to the main antagonist from this arc? You better believe it. “Assassination Classroom” isn’t a series that will be remembered for its unpredictability, but rather its […]
(No, this isn’t the start of a new trend. This is what happens when I forgot to put the post I banked for Monday up on Saturday. Uh, in case anyone was wondering.) In his afterword, artist Scott Wegener describes this latest “Atomic Robo” miniseries as an answer to the question of “What would it […]
The previous volumes of this series have carried an albatross around their metaphorical necks. (It’s a reference, not a weird sex thing. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was turned into a weird sex thing given how this title rolls.) An albatross by the name of Myrtle “Kegelface” Spurge. It’s understandable that series called […]
I thought I knew who the antagonists were in this series going into this volume. You have Silver Mask, now revealed as Hilmes — son of the murdered King Osores, who was the secret power behind Lusitania’s invasion of Ecbatana and has a serious mad-on for its King Andragoras and (by extension) Arslan. Yet Andragoras […]
Garth Ennis won’t be able to write comics about all of the stories to be told in WWII. He continues to give it his best try in the two arcs in this volume that detail some drastically different experiences in the European and Pacific Theaters. “Our Wild Geese Go” has the writer showing us what […]
I’m taking a break from talking about manga on this Monday since it’s July 4th and I’ve had this in my “to review” pile for well over a month now. Brian Wood’s first creator-owned series for Dark Horse had its problems, but still managed to run for thirty issues. “Rebels” is his ground-level look at […]
When it comes to raising the stakes in superhero comics, Jonathan Hickman took things about as far as you can go with his runs on “Avengers” and “New Avengers.” The fate of the world wasn’t at stake in those titles, it was the fate of the entire multiverse. Whoever was going to follow in his […]
“The Wicked + The Divine” is pulling a fast one this month and is publishing a one-shot, “1831,” that won’t be included in vol. 4. Which is also featured in these solicitations. In the past, I’d have to see about picking up this issue at a convention or a trip to a comic shop. Now […]
Okay, I guess? There’s nothing to get me excited like I was for their announcement of “I Am A Hero” last year, but I’ll be buying two of the three titles they announced at their Anime Expo panel earlier today. The full list is: Hatsune Miku: Rin-chan Now!, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko-Piko […]