Manga and Comic Reviews
Yeah… this arrived much, much sooner than I was expecting. It was even part of a Kodansha “Digital First” sale at ComiXology so I was able to pick it up at a discount. As glad as I am that I was able to read vol. 4 of this series, it does cast some shade on […]
I must’ve missed this when it came out but one of the covers to “Dark Nights: Metal” #1 had this fittingly badass illustration of the Justice League posed together in a way that made it look like they were throwing the horns. It’s very metal and Greg Capullo deserves major props for having it come […]
Dark Horse had some notable media announcements during Comic-Con this year with three of its titles receiving TV adaptations. One of them, “Flutter” about a shapeshifting girl who turns into a boy to pursue a girl she likes, I haven’t read. Another, “Mind MGMT,” is one I’m very familiar with and kind of surprised to […]
Some people come back from Comic-Con with stories of the long lines they had to stand in so they could get into the panels they wanted to see. Not me, though. I stayed the hell away from Hall H and the other big media panel rooms and only went to comic-focused panels. So not only […]
True story: I started reading this volume the evening it arrived with the intent to find out how the cliffhanger from vol. 8 would be resolved and to finish up the rest of it tomorrow. A couple hours later, I had burned through the entire thing (and did it again before sitting down to write […]
By all rights this story should have been part of Jason Aaron’s current run on “The Mighty Thor.” I understand why that didn’t happen as it would’ve required the writer to put the ongoing adventures of Jane Foster on hold for five months while we caught up with the Odinson, who we find here to […]
Have you been waiting for current “Spider-Man” Miles Morales and “Spider-Gwen” Gwen Stacy to strike up some kind of inter-dimensional, quasi-romantic relationship? Then this is the crossover for you! If you’re like me and you haven’t been waiting for this, then the disjointed crossover that is “Sitting in a Tree” will likely only leave you […]
I was hoping for some kind of redemption regarding the “Abe Sapien” ongoing series with this volume. That title wound up being consistently mediocre with an ending that didn’t wrap up much of what had come before. Yet sprinkled throughout the ongoing title’s run were one-off stories featuring work from several different artists both known […]
Grant Morrison was a huge influence on My Chemical Romance frontman/”Umbrella Academy” writer Gerard Way. So it’s probably not too surprising that Way has decided to put his own spin on Morrison’s groundbreaking “Doom Patrol” run as the inaugural title for his Young Animal imprint. It also means there’s a lot of hero worship for […]
Are you ready for an adventure! How about the story about an “unkillable” former soldier and the native girl he teams up with in order to find a fortune in stolen gold where the map to it has been tattooed on the skin of prisoners? If that’s the case, then go out and buy a […]