Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s the weekend of Comic Fest and Jacob Kurtz has a miserable task ahead of him. He’s been asked to watch over legendary comics artist Hal Crane. Just to make sure that the man gets to his panels and doesn’t get into too much trouble before he accepts his lifetime achievement award. That would be […]
Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca tackled the character as he worked his way out of disgrace in the wake of the Death Star’s destruction. Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli showed us the character as he was just starting out and unknown to the galaxy at large. Good “Darth Vader” stories like these have one thing […]
Vol. 1 ended somewhat incongruously with our happily married couple strung up over a tank filled with alligators. Rather than handwave it away as “The kind of thing that happens in superhero comics,” writer Kelly Thompson has it tie into the main story as Gambit and Rogue find themselves in the Mojoverse. The writer uses […]
The pun in the title of this Hope Nicholson-edited anthology from Dark Horse is that while “Pros” relates to the many professionals who contributed to it, it’s also full of prose as well. It’s basically a fifty-fifty split between essays and comics about the convention experience. So on one hand we’ve got shorts like “Only […]
The ideal review for this volume would be a .gif of me shaking it with the words “MAKE IT BETTER” flashing at regular intervals. Three volumes in and this series has managed to distinguish itself from mangaka Tsutomu Nihei’s previous work in that it’s the most conventional and straightforward thing he’s done to date. That […]
Man, what is it about these “Black Hammer” spinoffs? I like the main series well enough, but the miniseries that have been spun out of it, “Sherlock Frankenstein,” “Doctor Star,” and now this, have all been disappointingly conventional. This is even though they’ve all been written by series creator Jeff Lemire. I think the main […]
Jonathan Hickman’s “House of X” and “Powers of X” are halfway done and the response has been pretty good so far. Critical acclaim, good word of mouth, strong sales — it sounds both are going to be great reads when I pick up the edition collecting them both in December. However, out here in the […]
The title of this volume seems like good advice. After all, what good ever came to Marcus and the rest of his friends while they were at King’s Dominion? That’s exactly what winds up happening, however, and the results may not be what you were expecting. Unless you were expecting to see Marcus and Maria […]
This has been a penultimate-y year for volumes, it feels like. “Black Science,” “Paper Girls,” “The Wicked + The Divine,” “Curse Words,” “Prison School,” “East of West,” and “Happiness” are all series that have seen their next-to-last volume released this year. You can now add “I Am A Hero” to that list and it’s one […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation Undiscovered Country #1 What if The Wall got built? What if it wasn’t just between the U.S. and Mexico? What if it was built to encompass the entire United States? That’s the premise of this new series from co-writers Scott Snyder and Charles Soule, and co-artists Giuseppe Camuncoli and Daniele Orlandini. The fun […]