Manga and Comic Reviews
After vol. 17 spent its last couple of chapters setting things up for Nagisa and Karma to pull a heist on the International Space Station, I was expecting some slam-bang action to be in the offing. That’s… not what happens here. The two middle-school-kids get the drop on the astronauts and after some posturing and […]
I’m not sure if we’ll ever get an official statement from Bendis as to why he decided to leave Marvel or DC. There are plausible-sounding rumors as to why, though. He had pretty much accomplished everything he wanted at the company, from writing all of his favorite characters to creating several new ones. At this […]
Is there anything we can learn from Berganza-gate over at DC? Based on what has happened it would appear that the only way sexual harassers can be dealt with at a comic book company is if their notoriety reaches the mainstream. Superman group editor Eddie Berganza’s behavior was well-known within the industry but he wound […]
Another month without any manga solicitations, and no the Zelda Encyclopedia doesn’t count. We do have word of some manga-adjacent announcements from the company in the past month, however. “Berserk”-related ones, even. The “Berserk Official Guidebook” will be published next March and will set you back $15 for 200 pages about the world of the […]
Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” is home to lots of random bits of weirdness. The series was designed accommodate this, but there’s one bit that has always felt more out of place than others. That would be the alien spirit Hellboy met back in vol. 5, “Conqueror Worm.” It’s one thing to have the character encounter all […]
Does this volume lead “anywhere interesting?” Well, it starts off by introducing us to Kei’s mother. She’s a ruthlessly blunt and pragmatic person who has some choice words for her son in regards to the situation he has found himself in. For a series that usually winds up going down the most conventional path I […]
Huh. Looking back on my review of the first volume of this series I was surprised to see how negative I was towards it. There’s no denying that much of it fell in line with the depressing grind I’ve come to expect from Rick Remender’s creator-owned works. Yet, when vol. 2 came up on the […]
I’ve mentioned before that writer Dennis Hopeless’ run on “All-New X-Men” was the most pleasant surprise of the previous round of “X-Men” relaunches. It’s why I decided to pick up his latest series the “Jean Grey” solo title. Now, I don’t think the comics-reading world was really clamoring for a solo series about the time-displaced […]
While Mike Mignola is best known for the supernatural action and strangeness he has delivered to great effect in his many Mignolaverse titles and other projects, he’s not a stranger to humor. Hellboy has been known to punctuate just about all of his fights with a good deadpan quip and some of the short stories […]
It’s taken a few volumes but we’re finally back to this title’s expected level of quality. The focus is, however, still almost exclusively on Pariya and her rocky road to engagement with Umar. Pariya’s all for it, except that she finds herself at a loss when it comes to talking casually with the boy. What’s […]