Manga and Comic Reviews
Lately, writing out these Previews Picks entries every month has felt more like a grind than a fun diversion from all the reviews I write around here. So this month I’m going to try something new. Below the link are my thoughts on the most notable solicitations from DC, Dark Horse, Image, and Marvel as […]
Aphra’s creator, Kieron Gillen, is credited as a co-writer on this arc, but the story here does feel more like the work of incoming co-writer Si Spurrier. That’s not a bad thing as Spurrier has done some great work at Marvel and other publishers in the past and here he seems to be focused on […]
What’s new in the land of “Kamuy?” Sugimo and Asirpa have just pulled the latest convict with a tattooed skin out of the sea at a fishing village. Unfortunately for them, they don’t know that he’s the man they want or that he’s a serial killer with a death wish. While he’ll kill a man […]
It was a fun idea while it lasted. I’m talking about the idea of Laura Kinney assuming the mantle of Wolverine during the run of this title. After this volume she’ll be back to being X-23 in a title of the same name from a different creative team. Honestly, that development is more than a […]
After the previous volume my biggest concern with this one was “How is the art going to turn out?” To my surprise, things are actually better this time around. It appears that artist Salvador Larroca and colorist GURU-eFX have decided to double-down on making the human characters (and those humans who were also in the […]
While I liked the first volume of this title well enough, the second one leaves me feeling that this storyline has a real big problem to it. It’s not in how Charles Soule handles his large ensemble. He gets the characters more or less right and divides up the action so that no one of […]
Enter Yu Ishigami! The student council’s elusive treasurer finally makes his appearance in Kaguya-Sama: Love is War vol. 3 and proves to be a worthy addition to the core cast. He’s a gloomy otaku with a gift for number crunching and an unfortunate knack for saying or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. […]
In the wake of the “Hydra Cap” storyline and “Secret Empire’s” uh… decidedly mixed reception, it’s safe to say that Marvel felt Captain America’s image could use a little rehabilitation. But what creative team could be trusted with the task of getting Cap back to his old heroic standard? That would turn out to be […]
Ok, so it turns out that the trans-dimensional crisis involving the monsters streaming from magical portals in the absence of Wakanda’s gods is genuine. Klaw showing up with a hard-light hologram machine at the end of the previous volume was just his way of trying to cash in on the current crisis to troll his […]
I was primed to enjoy the setup of “Portland Homicide Detective Who Is Also a Witch” as it was coming from the creative team of Greg Rucka and Nicole Scott. What I got with the first volume was something that ultimately felt a bit too conventional even with its supernatural trappings. It takes a while […]