Manga and Comic Reviews
We’re all familiar with some version of the story of “Snow White.” A young princess is sent away to be murdered at the behest of her wicked stepmother, only to escape her fate, hang out with some dwarves for a while, eat an apple poisoned by said stepmother, fall into a deep sleep as a […]
G. Willow Wilson got her start doing creator-owned work on titles like the “Cairo” OGN and “Air” at Vertigo before she jumped ship to Marvel and hit it big creating Kamala “Ms. Marvel” Khan. She’s now back at DC writing “Wonder Woman” and preparing to take over “The Dreaming,” but has still found time for […]
Yes, I did get a lot of “Star Wars” comics in my most recent order of comics. “Rebels & Rogues” is the last of them, and the best as well. Rather than spend its time telling one story, vol. 13 decides to tell three instead. As an onslaught of Imperial probe droids scan the galaxy […]
The craziest train in comics continues… I mean, it’d be easy to fill a couple paragraphs with all of the “What the hell did I just read?” moments from this latest omnibus edition. Instead, I’ll just fill one: Bando getting a bionic arm and saying nuts to the castration surgery to go fulfill his vendetta […]
I hate to dash anyone’s hopes but this is not a tie-in to or spinoff of the beloved “Tie Fighter” PC space combat sim from the 90’s. Instead, it’s a look at “Shadow Wing,” one of the Empire’s elite Tie Fighter squads. Its current members — 2nd Lt. Commander Teso Broosh, Sr. Lt. Jeela Brebtin, […]
With a new numbered “Star Wars” movie due out in a couple weeks, tradition dictates that we’re due another “Journey to” comic ahead of it. Where “Shattered Empire” showed us what things were like for everyone immediately after “Return of the Jedi” and “Captain Phasma” was a nice character portrait of and continuity fix for […]
A “Star Wars” story inspired by the new themed land of the same name at Disneyland? I was all but prepared to pass on this because such a premise sounded deeply skippable. Now that I’ve actually read through it, I can say that it’s a fair bit better than that and actually makes me want […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Weather Man vol. 2 There are the new Image titles that I buy with the expectation that they’ll be good (lookin’ in your direction “Die”) and those that I buy with the expectation that they might be good. The first volume of “The Weather Man” was firmly in the latter category when […]
The plot of this series does move forward in this volume, albeit incrementally. There’s some drama at the beginning as Mari and Yori’s relationship goes through another rough patch. It’s more the latter being angry at the former for trespassing against her boundaries, though we do learn a little more about Yori’s family life in […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: Creature of the Night HC Around 15 years ago, Kurt Busiek wrote, with Stuart Immonen providing the art, a “Superman” miniseries called “Secret Identity.” It was set in the real world and followed a young boy with the name of Clark Kent. Mind you, this was a world where “Superman” existed in […]