Manga and Comic Reviews
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: DC is embarking on another initiative to expand comics’ readership and is pissing off its retailers in the process. It was announced last week that DC will be selling a monthly line of 100-Page Giant anthology collections via Wal-Mart featuring “Batman,” “Superman,” and “Justice League.” While the majority […]
It was announced a year or so back that Netflix would be making a series out of the Dark Horse title “The Umbrella Academy.” While we’re still waiting for news about how that’s going, it looks like the relationship between the two companies goes both ways. I say this because Dark Horse will be publishing […]
Even though I did a podcast featuring both titles, I can’t say that I’ve got a definite plan of covering them together for the future. It just so happens that new volumes of “Kaguya-sama” and “Silver Spoon” come out at around the same time. So I’ll probably talk about them together for the forseeable future […]
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog regularly know that I’ve been waiting for this first volume for a while. “Sunshine & Roses” debuted back in February of 2015 and, contrary to just about every other published series on the market, waited until the series was over thirty issues in to issue its first […]
This latest “Groo” miniseries is a bit more on target than the last as it’s clear that Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier are making specific fun of something here. That would be Spain’s attempt to conquer, convert, and exploit the “new world” in the late 1400’s, early 1500’s. If you’re thinking that’s a remarkably… specific […]
This volume is, for better and for worse, essentially what I was expecting after reading through the first one. That means you can expect to see more fantastic art from creator Daniel Warren Johnson as Thea and Rollo, cast out of the Roto by their father Jerome, have to find their way to safety in […]
“Angelic” is just your average coming-of-age story set on an Earth where humanity disappeared a few hundred years back and left the world to their genetically-engineered creations. Chief among them are a race of winged monkeys who are watching over what their makers have left behind though equal parts devotion and religious dogma. Most of […]
The dragon was slain, Falin was rescued, and everyone got a great meal out of the ordeal. All that’s left is for our party to head back to the surface and call it a day, right? NOPE! It turns out that the party’s dragon-slaying attracted the attention of none other than the Lunatic Magician who […]
Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker do their best to give some substance to all the style they demonstrated in the first volume of the series. Much of that comes from the plot thread involving NYPD Detective Theo Dumas and economics professor Dr. Tyler Gaddis. The doctor has found himself in a position to have the […]
The Bendis finale train at Marvel continues on with this volume of “Jessica Jones.” She’s arguably the most important character the writer has created during his time at the company. Not just because of the pretty good Netflix series that was based on her, but mainly because Jessica’s original series did something that’s still relatively […]