Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: King in Black/Venom by Donny Cates vol. 6 When I started reading Cates’ run on “Venom” I was just expecting it to be good. What I was not expecting was a retcon of the character’s history that tied it to an Old God of the Marvel Universe, who was now awake and coming […]
Mika and Cujo’s face-off against Sahaquiel makes for an invigorating start to vol. 6. The former even manages to inspire fear in the latter with his reckless dragon-slaying technique. Unfortunately, things fall into an all-too-familiar groove for the rest of the volume as Cujo convinces Mika to help him take out the dragon that took […]
How did I wind up with two volumes of this series in my “To Review” pile? Well, vol. 7 spent most of last year either out of stock, or not on sale for a significant discount at my preferred retailers. Then, a little over a month after I finally picked it up, vol. 8 came […]
New writer! New artist! New time period! Yes, there’s a lot that’s new about “Doctor Aphra” as her adventures move to the post-”Empire Strikes Back” era. One thing that hasn’t changed is her propensity for getting into trouble. I mean, this volume starts off with her double-crossing some Imperials, and then being double-crossed by one […]
I don’t know who at DC decided to put the “Green Lantern: Blackstars” miniseries that wraps up the first season of Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s run on the title, but I owe them a drink if I ever meet them. “Blackstars” tells us what happened after Hal Jordan wished for a universe without the […]
Mika and Cujo’s face-off against Sahaquiel makes for an invigorating start to vol. 6. The former even manages to inspire fear in the latter with his reckless dragon-slaying technique. Unfortunately, things fall into an all-too-familiar groove for the rest of the volume as Cujo convinces Mika to help him take out the dragon that took […]
This isn’t quite the end of Tom King’s “Batman” run. It is for his tenure on the ongoing monthly “Batman” title, with James Tynion IV having succeeded him and restored the title to its former sales glory, but the writer still has something to say about the character. He’ll just be doing it in the […]
The smart thing to do after reading the first “Snowpiercer” prequel volume would’ve been to cut my losses. I didn’t think Jean-Marc Rochette and Matz’s additions to the series added a whole lot, which left the story feeling like an unnecessary addition to the original trilogy. Yet because I didn’t hate the first volume, and […]
Call it “Wonder Woman Beyond Thunderdome.” Call it “Last Amazon on Earth.” However you want to look at it, the idea of Wonder Woman waking up into a post-apocalyptic world filled with monstrous creatures and fighting for the sake of the surviving humans is a powerful one. Put into the hands of creator Daniel Warren […]
Fans of this series can take heart that we’re getting this third volume much quicker than we got the second volume of writer Greg Rucka’s other ongoing creator-owned series, “The Old Guard.” By that I mean we only had to wait a little more than two years for this volume as opposed to three for […]