Manga and Comic Reviews
Well, I can’t call these “Previews Picks” anymore… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? I think Matt Fraction is a very uneven writer. His runs on “Invincible Iron Man,” “Uncanny X-Men,” and “Sex Criminals” were marked by parts that were really good, and parts that were really terrible. The one series […]
Yoshitoki Oima showed with “A Silent Voice” that she could mix serious social issues with heartfelt melodrama and interesting characters to tell an interesting story in the present day. Even if the first volume and its illustration of bullying was a full notch above the six that followed. Her follow-up series is miles away from […]
David Bowie was a one-of-a-kind artist with an unmistakable style. So it’s fitting that this biography of his life up through his time as Ziggy Stardust is illustrated and co-written by another one-of-a-kind artist with an unmistakable style: Mike Allred. I’ve made no secret of how much I love his work, and he really knocks […]
The Banks family has a long criminal history in the city of Chicago. From Clara and her husband Melvin in the 70’s & 80’s, to her daughter Cora in the 90’s and 00’s, and her daughter Celia in the present day, they’ve all made money by being smart about who they steal from and never […]
When I saw Robert Kirkman at his solo panel during Comic-Con last year, he talked about the very slight chance that he’d return to the world of “The Walking Dead.” He was quick to mention that it would be after everything else in his professional life had gone wrong, leaving him desperate for a comeback […]
Garth Ennis has been writing war comics for a couple decades now. Most of them are very good, with a few ranking right up there with “Preacher” and “Punisher MAX” as some of the best stuff that he’s ever written. Even with that being the case, there are certain tropes that creep into the majority […]
If there were two comics that I was looking forward to reading this year, they were the fifth and sixth omnibi of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.” I couldn’t believe it when Dark Horse announced that they were bringing this series back after it went on hiatus years ago. The fact that I’d effectively be […]
Justin Jordan is a writer that I typically associate with a “style over substance” approach. It can certainly be entertaining, as he showed with artist Tradd Moore in the “Luther Strode” series. Other times it can just be tiring: See “Dead Body Road” with Matteo Scalera. “Reaver,” when it was announced had a description that […]
I hear that James Stokoe managed to secure five nominations, the most of any creator, between his one-shot “Sobek” from Shortbox, and “Grunt” his book of art and unpublished comics from Dark Horse. Regular readers will know that I’m a big fan of Stokoe’s work, so I hope he secures at least one win from […]
News broke a week ago last Friday — because everyone was ready for the weekend and therefore not ready to vent some outrage — that DC would be ending its exclusive partnership with Diamond Comics Distributors. You know, the distributor that has had a virtual monopoly on serialized comics distribution in the U.S. since the […]