Manga and Comic Reviews
Our long national nightmare is over! No, not that one. I’m talking about how it’s been almost three years since we’ve had any new “Jojo’s” stories in print. The last volume of “Battle Tendency” came out in August 2016 and since then Viz has been dutifully reprinting the entirety of “Stardust Crusaders” in the now-standard […]
The last time we saw the good Doctor things had become real dark. Like, mindwiping her girlfriend to believe that she had killed her in order to escape Darth Vader dark. In the end, Aprha’s efforts only served to get her out of the frying pan when it was revealed that her new alien friend […]
Vol. 1 of Waid’s run left off on an incredible cliffhanger which suggested that the Strange we had been following wasn’t actually the real one. The writer wastes no time in resolving this setup for the first arc of this volume and it turns out I had it wrong. In fact, what’s really going on […]
Even if Slott doesn’t reinvent the wheel with these two volumes, there’s still fun to be had. Vol. 1, “Fourever,” does the dirty work of getting the family back together after years of corporate-mandated separation. Reed, Sue, Valeria, Franklin, and the Future Foundation’s efforts to rebuild the multiverse come to an abrupt, and needlessly harsh, […]
That’s right, we’re now living in a world where “All-Rounder Meguru” comes out at such a pace (quarterly) that I can wait to review two volumes at once. Of course, that approach presents its own problems as we progress deeper into the current tournament arc. Meguru has a shot at making it to the finals, […]
Two volumes in and there are certainly things I like about Scott Snyder (and James Tynion IV’s) run on “Justice League” so far. Chief among them is the fact that each volume is a smaller part of a much larger story that’s being told. We can see that in the opening issue which follows Luthor’s […]
Sadly, this isn’t the volume where we get to see Hulk punch Mephisto in the face. The “hell” that Hulk and the rest of the cast were pulled into at the end of the previous volume is a more desolate place which is filled with the talking shells of the dead people closest to them. […]
While I have yet to read the actual issue where Peter Parker revealed that he was Spider-Man to longtime antagonist J. Jonah Jameson, I have to admit that this development has worked out really well in the “Spider-Man” series I do read. Rather than broadcast this secret to the world, Jameson has since become the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Harleen #1 I was very tempted to pick something else for this spot, until I realized that I’d rather wait to read that in softcover. Even though I’ll be waiting to read this new Black Label miniseries when it’s collected I’ll be buying it when it comes out. Regardless of whether it’s in […]
In news I didn’t think I’d read anytime soon, Dark Horse announced at the Anime Expo panel today that they’ll be publishing new volumes of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.” The series, about a group of mostly unemployable college students who make ends meet by taking jobs from dead people, has been on hiatus since […]