Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s the end of an era in these solicitations as a long-running manga series reaches its final volume. That’s right true believers, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project vol. 18 will finally arrive on our shores this August (remember, Dark Horse collections are always advance-solicited by two months). While there’s still no definitive […]
Officially, Chip Zdarsky has signed an exclusive deal with Marvel Comics. He wrote the most recent “Howard the Duck” series for them and is currently writing “Spectacular Spider-Man” and “Marvel Two-in-One,” the latter of which has an annual illustrated by “Injection’s” Declan Shalvey solicited this month. While I’m very familiar with his art in “Sex […]
To my surprise, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Kill or be Killed wraps up with its twentieth issue in these solicitations. Its first two volumes established it as one of their better series, a trend which continues with the third one. I’ll have a review of that up in the next week or two. Those […]
We are officially in the home stretch here with only two volumes left in the series and the plot reaches its climax here. After some early bits of drama in vol. 19 to introduce the mercenary bad guys of this volume, and comedy, as Koro-sensei helps his students put together a class yearbook, the anti-sensei […]
There’s a new imprint on the DC block: Black Label. If you’ve been wanting to read some out-of-continuity tales featuring the company’s most popular superheroes by some of its biggest creators then this is what you’ve been waiting for! Me? Well, I won’t say no to reading more “Batman” stories from Scott Snyder and Greg […]
Something occurred to me after I read this volume. Laura “Wolverine” Kinney hasn’t killed anyone over the course of “All-New Wolverine.” Stabbed and knocked out a bunch of people, yes, but she hasn’t been directly responsible for any of the actual deaths that have happened in this run. A Wolverine series where the title character […]
With this volume, longtime Spider-writer Dan Slott has finally put Peter Parker back in a familiar status quo: Working for the Daily Bugle. Not as a photographer getting sweet shots of Spider-Man, mind you, but as the new editor of its science section. Before that happens, he has to throw down with the new physically […]
It seems like mangaka Yasuo Ohtagaki finally got around to watching “Memento” before he sat down to create this volume-length story. I say this because the first half of vol. 6 has the same gimmick as that classic film: a story told in reverse. Things start out with Bianca, one of the veteran mobile suit […]
If it seems like we’ve been here before recently, that’s because we have. Garth Ennis and Russ Braun are together again with the story of an ersatz James Bond coming face-to-face with his thoughtlessly cavalier lifestyle. Jimmy Regent is the “Not Bond” in question and we’re introduced to him as he’s saving London from a […]
“Spy Seal” is a character creator Rich Tommaso came up with as a kid and decided to make a comic out of. While the idea of an anthropomorphic seal who is also a secret agent may seem a little strange to some, the fact that it’s drawing on two notable series as influences makes it […]