Manga and Comic Reviews
Meanwhile, at the other end of the “Star Wars” comic quality spectrum we have the latest adventure of Doctor Aphra. After finding a way to safely reactivate the technopathic presence of ancient Jedi “Immortal” Rur in the wake of the “Screaming Citadel” crossover, Aphra does what comes naturally to her. She invites a host of […]
It’s a credit to how Marvel has handled the “Star Wars” license that they have yet to release a genuinely bad comic book featuring it. Some could be called boring and inessential, but this “Mace Windu” miniseries is notable for how it combines these two things. Don’t expect to learn anything about the title character […]
We’re technically on the third volume of this series, as I’m counting the “Weapons of Mutant Destruction” crossover, and pretty much all of it has been focused on the new Weapon X/Weapon H storylines. That’s a lot of time to devote to one subject in this day and age, but that’s not a bad thing […]
Cave Carson’s cybernetic eye may be part of this series’ title, but the last time we saw the explorer that titular eye was making a break for it. That leaves Cave in a very bad place as the first issue in this second volume begins with a flashback to the time that he met Superman. […]
It turns out that the previous volume was just a fluke and “Murcielago” isn’t done pushing buttons or the envelope just yet. In fact, I can see the subject matter in this volume causing even more people to give up on this series altogether. That’s because the mass murderer of choice here is one who […]
An otherwise great vol. 2 of this series was hamstrung by an ending that made me question how much progress the story had actually made. Vol. 3 doesn’t make that mistake because by the end of it we’ve finally caught up to and gone past the scene Dylan has been flashing back to since the […]
It’s the first crossover of the latest relaunch and the results are… decidedly meh. Wheeling out Mojo as the bad guy for this event certainly had potential as his evil-TV-producer-from-another-dimension schtick does give the creators a chance to cut loose and come up with some crazy scenarios. The problem here is that co-writers Marc Guggenheim […]
The next age of “Avengers” starts in a couple months with Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness’ new series. In the meantime, the “No Surrender” weekly event is winding down and we’ve got the trade collections for the last couple of “Avengers” titles that I still read. Those would be vanilla “Avengers” and “U.S.Avengers,” written by […]
A little over three and a half years ago we reached the end of mangaka Yukio Kishiro’s “Battle Angel Alita: Last Order” series. While the majority of the series focused on the title character and the consequences of the intergalactic martial arts tournament she found herself wrapped up in, its final two volumes gave us […]
After sticking it out through multiple titles featuring the “Inhumans” and the “IvX” crossover, it appears that Charles Soule’s reward is his own “X-Men” title. It’s a team book featuring Old Man Logan, Rogue, Psylocke, Bishop, Gambit, Fantomex, Angel, and… one more character featured on the cover but not properly introduced until the second issue. […]