Manga and Comic Reviews
It becomes clearer to me with each passing volume that there is nothing more to be done with the concept of sequential art as a medium after this. Yes, all writers can stop writing, artists can stop drawing, and all inkers, assistants, colorists, and letterers can lay down their tools in the face of the […]
Bond’s film status has seen better days recently, with the relative creative disappointment of “Spectre” and the ongoing drama of whether or not Daniel Craig will return to the role. (If Idris Elba doesn’t want to do it, then the oft-rumored Tom Hiddleston would be a good second choice.) Fortunately, Warren Ellis is on hand, […]
All good things must come to an end, and this represents the last of writer Tim Truman and artist Tomas Giorello’s work on “Conan.” This being comics, that could change in a couple years, but the way Truman thanks everyone he’s worked with on the character over the years in his afterword really makes it […]
It took them a while, but Marvel has finally gotten around to delivering a miniseries set in the prequel era. A lot of people think that mining the era of the much-derided “Prequel Trilogy” is a bad idea given how it automatically invokes (bad) memories of these films. I disagree. The very best “Star Wars” […]
Mikura Amelia is living the dream as she operates a one-plane delivery service that services the many small islands that fall under Tokyo’s jurisdiction. It’s on one such mission that she gets some tragic news: her grandfather, who taught her the ropes as a pilot, has passed away. While going through his things, Mikura finds […]
The Logan we knew and loved for years is still dead. I imagine he’ll stay that way for a few more years until people really start to miss him (and he’s burned off all that bad karma from killing all of his bastard children towards the end). In the meantime, Marvel doesn’t have just one […]
I know it’s getting old at this point, but there are a lot of Image titles that I follow. To the point where the trade paperbacks I get start to pile up in my review queue after a while. I have things that I want to say about them, but there’s always something newer or […]
I was originally going to write up “Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin” tonight because I wanted something easy. Then I was distracted by this second collection of Ennis & McCrea’s run on “The Demon.” I figured I’d read a little bit of it and then get down to work. Then I read a little more, […]
Hrm… When it was teased that Batman killed for the custom-human-trafficker known as “Mother” because he wanted a Robin more suited for the job than Dick Grayson, I knew it was all a fake-out. As should anyone else who has been reading “Batman,” and superhero comics in general, for a reasonable amount of time. My […]
Akiko Higashimura’s epic of female otaku, fashion, and jellyfish takes two conventional, but not unsatisfying, turns in its second volume. The first is that the standard shojo manga love triangle starts to become a bit more codified here. Dowdy jellyfish-lover Tsukimi really does have the hots for crossdresser Kurano’s handsome, responsible, and utterly inept in […]