Manga and Comic Reviews
What we have here is an action-centric volume and thankfully a gimmick-free one this time around. After the Spartan crosses the border of the Nanyang Alliance’s territory combat breaks out between the two sides. While that sounds simple enough, there are two complicating factors at work here: One is the Alliance’s efforts to get onboard […]
The latest volume of the title character’s early years with the organization features a three-issue miniseries advancing its running plots bookended by two one-off issues, courtesy of regular writers Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson. “Secret Nature” comes first and features the slick art of “Thief of Thieves” Shawn Martinbrough who shows that he can handle […]
It’s the penultimate volume of Dan Slott’s run on “Amazing Spider-Man” and how does it start? With a bit of filler in “Annual #42” as Peter Parker helps Betty Brant investigate an old case that her deceased flame, Ned Leeds, was working on. It involves a statue in the middle of town memorializing a battle […]
Another year, another Comic-Con. While it’s still an insanely crowded experience where you have to line up incredibly early if you want to have a chance of getting into the biggest panels, there’s still plenty of fun to be had with the smaller panels on offer. Which were most of the ones that I wound […]
Apparently this series isn’t going to progress in a straight line, chronologically speaking. Vol. 3 takes us back to the time period of the first volume, and while I’m kinda disappointed that we’re not going to follow up with what Alita is up to in the present, we get some good backstory development here. Not […]
Even if vol. 3 didn’t quite end on a cliffhanger, it ended on a real downer note for the series. It was even more of a bummer for the fact that I was expecting it to be the final volume given that the sales of “Rumble” have never been all that great. So when it […]
The cold war between the organizations which watch over Earth and Space is starting to heat up. International Operations thinks that Skywatch is making a move on them because the tech used by Jacob Marlow’s Wild Covert Action Team is suspiciously like that group’s. Never mind the fact that Angela Spica, who is now with […]
One thing that never ceases to annoy me in comics is when we get an extended sequence where people are talking in a foreign (or even made-up) language without a translation. Yes, O great writer, we see that you’re proficient enough in this language to write in it for an extended period, but it doesn’t […]
No, this isn’t “Thanos vol. 3: Thanos Wins.” So successful were these six issues from new writer Cates, and his “God Country” collaborator Geoff Shaw, that this volume was rebranded (on the copyright pages at least) with his name. Deservedly so, if the sales of this arc were any indication. This latest “Thanos” series was […]
Now this is weird. The previous volume put the main plot on hold to focus entirely on a grown-up Yukiko Gosho as she tried to put the vampire-related trauma of her high school years behind her and live an ordinary life. It was an effective character study that ended in a way that promised a […]