Manga and Comic Reviews
The quality has been going back and forth on the two “X-Men” flagship titles. While I thought the first volume of “Gold” offered some welcome nostalgia to the ho-hum drama of “Blue,” things quickly reversed themselves. “Blue” found its groove in its subsequent two volumes while the nostalgic fun of “Gold” grew more rickety in […]
Now that they’re no longer on the trail of the Hulkverine, what’s a random assemblage of morally flexible and violent mutants to do? How about head south of the border to Santo Marco where the government is violently suppressing mutants through use of a suborned Nuke platoon. Warpath is all for it and takes point […]
I’ve mentioned before how this series has felt hamstrung by its inability to really get out there and explore the state of the “Star Wars” universe prior to “The Force Awakens.” Now imagine a comic that has to limit itself further by placing itself within the confines of the “Poe Dameron” series itself. That’s the […]
How can you tell when a creator is firing on all cylinders regarding their current series? When they ditch their main cast and setting to focus on an all-new group of people in a completely different situation. That’s what mangaka Kengo Hanazawa does in this latest omnibus as we continue to focus on former shut-in […]
Cates is the new hotness at Marvel thanks to his work on “Thanos,” “Venom,” and to a lesser extent his brief run on this title. I say this because in all likelihood “God of Magic” came about because Marvel wanted to keep “Doctor Strange” going through their “Legacy” initiative but needed someone to kill some […]
“Decompressed” is a funny title for this volume. That’s because writer/artist Matt Kindt does nothing but put pressure on his protagonist, Mia, and on the reader as well. Mia is still trying to figure out who killed her father, Hari, in the undersea base he was working at. Keep in mind that said base is […]
The first volume of this series worked because of the unique angle writer/artist Jeff Lemire found to address the long-standing shared grief the members of the Pike family felt over the death of their youngest member, Tommy. Except for oldest sibling and prodigal son Pat, each family member chose to remember Tommy in an idealized […]
What feels like the endgame for this series kicks off in this volume as Sato makes his move. What move is that you ask? Why negotiations with the Ministry of Welfare — the same organization that has been kidnapping and torturing demi-humans to see how they can benefit society. What’s that you say? Negotiating with […]
“Invincible” was a pretty great comic. So great that it might wind up having two concurrent adaptations to two different mediums. That Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg had snatched up the rights to a film version and were in the process of developing it broke last year. Now, Amazon has announced that they’ll be producing […]
While we’re still waiting to find out how the Batman/Catwoman wedding is going to go down, “X-Men: Gold” gave us a look at the kind of bait-and-switch that tends to go along with these kinds of events. The series has been building up to a Kitty Pryde/Colossus wedding for a while now and issue #30 […]