Manga and Comic Reviews
T’Challa is having a really good year so far. After Chadwick Boseman made a striking debut as the Black Panther in “Captain America: Civil War,” the character’s latest ongoing series debuted to over 300k in sales. It’s not the biggest debut of the year, but I don’t think that anyone was expecting a new “Black […]
I mentioned Joe Keatinge and Leila Del Luca’s “Shutter” for possibly the first time in these solicitations a few months back. That’s because the final arc for their series was being hyped by advertising that the collection of the final issues wouldn’t be arriving for quite some time afterward. No word on if that has […]
If nothing else, at least mangaka Hiroya Oku finishes off the low-rent crime/revenge story he started off in the previous volume quickly here. Just one chapter and it’s behind us. What follows is certainly an improvement as we get back to having the story be about the different approaches the aged Inuyashiki and the teen […]
With DC dominating its distinguished competition in terms of marketshare for August, was there any good news for the company’s comic sales last month? Actually, yes. Even though Marvel lost considerable marketshare here, its sales were still 40% more than they were in August of last year when “Secret Wars” was still in full swing. […]
To say that DC had a good August would be understating things by quite a bit. The fact that they utterly trounced Marvel in overall marketshare for dollars and comics sold is impressive in itself. What’s really shocking is that the company managed this feat by shipping a third less books than its main competitor. […]
Strig Feleedus is a genetic engineer who is working on a big project for Muroid Inc. It’s a super gene-splicer formula that could have a huge impact on the world as we know it. The bad news is that his boss, Dr. Muroid, is actually a half-rat shapeshifter who wants to use the formula to […]
What, no reviews of the three volumes in the series between this and the first one? Nope. “The Ice Reaper” never really rose above the level of fantasy comfort food in its exploration of the backstory of Kurasame and his companions, collectively known as the Four Heroes of Rubrum. Our protagonist gains greater power as […]
Unless you count the build-up for The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts (featured in these solicitations) then there hasn’t been a lot of Dark Horse-centric news this past month. So I’m giving a special above-the board mention to the debut of a new manga title in these solicitations: Hatsune Miku: Rin-Chan Now! Vol. 1. […]
“Vader Down” notwithstanding, I’ve generally enjoyed Jason Aaron’s work on “Star Wars” so far. The second volume even indicated that we could expect stronger work from him when he’s not bent on bringing in big-gun guest stars like Darth Vader and Boba Fett. With “Rebel Jail” he has an even bigger opportunity to add something […]
In *ahem* researching Joe Kelly’s “Deadpool” run for the podcast, I found that while it had its moments it wasn’t as entertaining as you’d expect from a defining run on a character. I was more entertained by the recent Duggan/Posehn run that managed to mix action, comedy, and drama in a more satisfying fashion. Now […]