Manga and Comic Reviews
The first volume of “Bitch Planet” set up a rousing sports prision story in a future where women were systematically oppressed and the goal was to overthrow the patriarchy. Vol. 2 said nuts to that premise and set about starting the revolution now. Proper setup be damned! Now we have a third volume of this […]
Like a lot of long-running series, the volumes of “Saga” can be broadly generalized as being about one particular thing. You can call vol. 2 “The One About the In-Laws,” while vol. 4 is “The One With Relationship Troubles,” with vol. 5 being “The One Where That Dragon Sucks its Own Dick,” and vol. 7 […]
This latest volume can be neatly divided into three sections. What’s telling about the division is that even its weakest section, which would be the first, is still pretty engaging. That first section focuses on a manga editor and his assistant traveling to Taiwan to get some photo reference shots after just about everyone else […]
Vol. 1 ended with the arrival of Lucy Weber, daughter of Black Hammer, to the strange town that the heroes of Spiral City have been banished to. Her arrival also revealed that one of these heroes may have more to do with their banishment than they’re letting on by wiping Lucy’s memory of how she […]
What happens when you don’t have the resources to fight the good fight anymore? PFC Zula Hendricks, the android Davis, and their new ally Dr. Hollis are committed to making sure that Weyland-Yutani aren’t able to get their hands on a viable xenomorph sample. They’ve destroyed lots of company property and killed other Colonial Marines […]
Yeah, it’s been a while since we got one of these. So long, in fact, that the next volume has already been solicited for release this June. With a new volume due so (relatively) soon does “1954” deserve to be lost in the shuffle? I don’t think that any story featuring Hellboy deserves that fate, […]
The main story of Col. Kurtz’s efforts to gain control of Buer and Nene and Clarion’s very roundabout way of foiling him came to an end in vol. 8. It was a nice wrap-up for this series that has been an enjoyable bit of harmless fluff since the beginning. Yet, it wasn’t the end of […]
Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s “Darth Vader” series stands tall as the best “Star Wars” comic released by Marvel. Seriously, if you have any love for “Star Wars” and you haven’t read this series yet then you need to fix that! So when it was announced a few months after “Darth Vader” ended that there […]
Well, that didn’t take long. It turns out that Image will be the publisher of Mark Millar’s “Netflix Comics” imprint instead of Dark Horse. I read that the main concern with having Image act as a publisher for the imprint was that the work-for-hire nature of some of Millar’s projects would clash with the company’s […]
Who’s going to be the Next Big Thing over at Marvel? Right now, all signs point to it being Donny Cates. After generating a lot of heat with his creator-owned projects “God Country” and “Redneck” (at Image) and “Babyteeth” (at Aftershock) Marvel succeeded in getting him to work for them before DC could. Their investment […]