Manga and Comic Reviews
While the previous volume offered up some satisfyingly tense action, via a hallucinogenic fog that brought back a lot of familiar faces, it left the main story spinning its wheels. That’s less of a problem here as the men and women of the Expeditionary Corps settle in for a long winter after rebuilding their fort. […]
I’ve always admired Robert Kirkman’s efforts to try and deliver another successful creator-owned series after the successes of “The Walking Dead” and “Invincible.” That his efforts in that regard, with “The Astounding Wolf-Man” and “Outcast,” have generally been just “okay” hasn’t given me cause to give up hope yet. If this first volume is any […]
Yeah, I’m honestly surprised that this volume even exists. I remember hearing about how mangaka Kiyohiko Azuma had to be cajoled into finishing the last story in the previous volume after putting the series on hiatus for a year. After hearing that I figured he either had a terrible work ethic or was just plain […]
This volume kicks off with Gadhevi having his last supper with Rajendra, putting an end to the civil war in Sindhura. As well as an end to the filler arc nature of this storyline too, right? Not quite. As Arslan and company prepare to head back to Pars, Rajendra still has a trick or two […]
Three volumes in and Inio Asano’s latest is finally starting to make some worthwhile strides towards the level of quality I normally expect from his series. It’s really evident once we find out that one of Kadode and Ontan’s friends has died as a result of the latest human/alien skirmish. Seeing the way the girls […]
Tsutomu Nihei is a creator who has been moving ever closer to the mainstream over the course of his career. Looking at his multi-volume series, you get the feeling that after he was fully able to indulge his artistic impulses in “BLAME!” Nihei viewed creating a series with mass appeal as a real challenge to […]
This is easily one of the better volumes of the series. Why? Because it focuses almost exclusively on creator Gamon Sakurai’s greatest strength: His ability to create some kick-ass action scenes. So if you were expecting great things in that regard after Sato infiltrated the JSDF base in the previous volume then you’re going to […]
Grant Morrison and Dan Mora’s revisionist take on the “Santa Claus” mythos was one of the best comics I read back in 2016. This follow-up volume, which collects the two extra-sized one-shots the creators have released in its wake isn’t in the same league. That’s because both are the rare Morrison-written projects where he puts […]
“War Thor?” More like “Edgelord Thor” as he’s presented here. This new Thor, brought into existence after a certain person picked up the Mjolnir of the Ultimate Universe, is all about anger, rage, blood raining from the skies, and vengeance to be visited upon the Queen of Cinders for the deaths she’s caused in the […]
It should be immediately obvious to anyone reading this that without Stan Lee’s contributions to superhero comics this site and podcast would look markedly different. “X-Men,” “Avengers,” “Spider-Man,” “The Fantastic Four,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man,” “Daredevil,” and the list goes on. The characters Stan Lee co-created with artists like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby […]