Manga and Comic Reviews
While the main goal of Sugimoto and co. right now is to get to Asirpa’s father in Abashiri prison, this volume shows that the series is in no hurry to get there as it splits itself into two halves. The first is about our group of protagonists and how they make their way to Sapporo […]
At the end of most Marvel events is a series of epilogues setting up the next big event. DC got into doing that kind of thing with “Metal” which set the stage for this miniseries, which in turn set up the three current “Justice League” titles. While I understand the need to keep the momentum […]
I’ve written before about the long and mutually beneficial series of crossovers between “Usagi Yojimbo” and the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” In fact, you should go back and read my review of their last crossover since my thoughts on it haven’t changed in the intervening year. Though the story wasn’t all that great, it did […]
Ah, it’s a new creator-owned series from Rick Remender. Will it be the kind that relentlessly grinds down its protagonists to the point where it starts being fun (“Deadly Class”), to where you start sympathizing with the antagonist (“Seven to Eternity”), or just plain grinds them down (“Black Science”). If nothing else the answer is […]
Aaron has been working within the Marvel Universe for long enough that seeing him finally get the chance to write the “Avengers” feels right. The good news is that his willingness to embrace the casual craziness of this particular universe serves this opening story well. What does it involve? Nothing less than the extermination of […]
The cover to this volume is best appreciated by looking at the version of it on the color insert on the first page. That’s because the contrast that glossy version affords allows you to see how creepy it really is. Not that Teacher means any ill will towards Shiva in this volume. Not intentionally, as […]
“Deadpool” miniseries have been so prolific over the past few years that you could probably walk into a comic shop and hit one simply by swinging a dead dog around. Now would be the perfect place for me to ask a rhetorical question like, “How do you know what one to read?” except that the […]
An original graphic novella from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips? Yes, please take my money! This is a thing that I absolutely want to read. I’ve said it time and time again (quite recently, in fact) that these two are one of the best creative teams in comics and it’s honestly a relief that between […]