Manga and Comic Reviews
Inio Asano has had enough works translated into English that his tics have become readily apparent at this point. The characters who speak with arch know-it-all sensibilities, his love of magical realism or outright surrealism, and stories that mix everyday whimsy with crushing despair. It’s to the point where I’d imagine that you’re either onboard […]
I really want to say that this is one more reason that collecting comics in the hope that they’ll become valuable one day is for suckers, but… The story goes that after “The Walking Dead” launched back in 2004 a “Museum Edition” (read: oversized hardcover) of the first issue was created as part of a […]
The company may have lost the “Star Wars” and “Conan” licenses to Marvel, but they’ve been getting plenty of Disney licenses to help balance things out. Last month’s solicitations had the debut of an “Incredibles” miniseries while this month has the first issue of Frozen: Breaking Boundaries which is described as the first multi-issue comics […]
Who’s representing Marvel at the Eisners this year? They’ve got “Hawkeye” for Best Ongoing Series, “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” and “X-Men: Grand Design” for Best Limited Series, “Black Bolt” for Best New Series, Brian Stelfreeze and Julian Totino Tedesco as Best Cover Artists for “Black Panther” and “Hawkeye” (respectively), and Ed Piskor for Best […]
There’s an easy way to tell when a DC event means business. It’s when they use “Crisis” in its title. The original “Crisis on Infinite Earths” set the standard for being the crossover that really changed everything as it streamlined DC’s continuity in significant fashion. Subsequent events, such as “Zero Hour: Crisis in Time,” “Infinite […]
Huh. It turns out this is the final volume. I’m not sure how I failed to see this coming or how I convinced myself in the first place that this was going to be a 22-volume series. Oh well, that just means I’ve reached the end of this really good series a little earlier than […]
A couple days ago I wrote about how “The Negative Zone War” over in “X-Men: Gold” didn’t really live up to its title. Among its many problems was the fact that the war in its title didn’t really amount to a skirmish or two before the statue of a god came to life and started […]
Have you ever wondered what it would look like when Rick Remender writes a story that puts his protagonists so far in the red that it doesn’t make sense for them to come out all right in the end, yet they manage to do it anyway? Well wonder no more as “Extinction is the Rule” […]
Yes, those “X-Men” books do keep multiplying and piling up for me to read. The ones that I’m actually interested in following at any rate. So it happens that I picked up three new titles in my last big order of comics. While that includes the latest volumes of flagship titles X-Men: Gold and X-Men: […]
There were times last year where I was worried that I wouldn’t have a manga title to review in a given week. Flash forward to today and now my “to review” pile is positively choked with manga. Which is a good thing as there have been times in the past where, as some series concluded, […]