Manga and Comic Reviews
On its own terms, this is probably the most entertaining “Mars Chronicle” has been so far. It starts off with a thrilling and creative fight between bounty hunters Dass and Gillum before segueing into the inevitably tragic end of Yoko’s mom/nanny Kyoko. There’s a bit there that chillingly illustrates how much of a psychopath Erica […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey #1 (of 8) I didn’t expect this: Matt Wagner is returning to his other signature creation to push it forward. After the prose/illustrated novel “Past Prime” took “Grendel” to its farthest point in the future, Wagner left it there for a decade. He spent that decade looking into the past […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sandman Universe Presents: Hellblazer #1 Oh, it’s a new series from DC featuring John Constantine… Wait, it’s under “The Sandman Universe Presents” banner. So that means it’s a Mature Readers book that’s going to take place in the same shared continuity as the long-running “Hellblazer” series! And it’s even going to be […]
Marvel’s “Endgame” victory lap and its unveiling of “Phase 4.” The future of “The Walking Dead” on TV and on film. The final “Game of Thrones” panel with the cast. I went to none of the panels that featured these things. As is the case with all of the Comic-Cons that I attend, my focus […]
You know, I think you’ve got to go all the way back to the reign of Yoshimune — maybe Ieshige if you’re being generous — to find a time when it felt like the good women and men of this series weren’t constantly behind the eightball. Since then it’s felt like things have steadily become […]
I wasn’t expecting to say that Gabriel Hardman, who helped give us the underwhelming “Star Wars: Legacy” sequel series, would give us a better “Aliens” series than James Stokoe, but here we are. “Dust to Dust” is a kid’s-eye view of a Xenomorph outbreak on a far-off colony planet. Young Maxon wakes up to chaos […]
I was somewhat lukewarm on the first volume of Aaron’s “Avengers.” It was the kind of “Go Big” story that started the series off at full tilt, leaving you unsure where the series could go from there. Fortunately this second volume shows that the writer does have a plan for where he wants this series […]
The Sangeryes used to be the greatest family of monster hunters out there. They were able to combat and cure the Jinoo, the name given to people whose souls were corrupted by hate, without breaking a sweat. That was until a falling-out between family members sent the gunslinging Ford to the Deep South, turned the […]
Apparently Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso decided not to take a mulligan with this series and returned for a second volume. I wasn’t really inclined to give it a shot after how the first volume turned out, but this one was on sale for 50% off so I figured I’d give it a shot. It […]
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 […]