Manga and Comic Reviews
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Dark Horse’s manga launch of the year! Not only does it hail from the creator/writer of “One-Punch Man,” but it has also spawned an anime series successful enough to get a second season (the first episode of which will be premiering in American theaters). With that kind of pedigree it’s […]
What does this second volume of “filler-arc ‘Gantz’ spinoff” have to convince us that it’s not just a tired cash-in? How about drama between teenage girls! It’s actually more appealing that I’m making it sound as the dynamics between the five girls who survived the first volume distinguish it a little from its parent series. […]
Listeners with long memories might recall that I mentioned the first four-issue “The Paybacks” miniseries when I talked about the stuff I was reading on my Kindle that one time. It’s idea of a superhero repo squad that targeted other superheroes who couldn’t afford the payments on their flashy tech was a fun one with […]
The first volume of this series was hamstrung by the fact that it felt like setup for the stories that Grant Morrison really wanted to tell with the character. With that out of the way, vol. 2 should be a fantastic read. Right? Well it certainly has its charms with the inventive art of Yanick […]
Okay, so this title’s momentum kind of stalled out in the previous volume. I’d like to say that “Happiness” gets its groove back here, but that’ll probably depend on how eager you were to learn about Sakurane’s backstory. While we knew that he was a killer before he met Gosho and went away with Yuuki […]
Since its inception Dark Horse Comics has been owned by one person: Co-founder Mike Richardson. As of last October that’s no longer the case. Dark Horse received a large investment from Vanguard Visionary Associates, a Hong Kong-based firm. The stated intent behind this investment is to allow Dark Horse to fund the production of films […]
We were promised answers in this volume. Along with a sequence that nearly broke creators Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie by the former’s own admission. The good news is that both of these things are delivered in vol. 7! No, we don’t get ALL the answers. Anyone expecting Gillen to explain everything in this series […]
While the previous volume offered up some satisfyingly tense action, via a hallucinogenic fog that brought back a lot of familiar faces, it left the main story spinning its wheels. That’s less of a problem here as the men and women of the Expeditionary Corps settle in for a long winter after rebuilding their fort. […]
I’ve always admired Robert Kirkman’s efforts to try and deliver another successful creator-owned series after the successes of “The Walking Dead” and “Invincible.” That his efforts in that regard, with “The Astounding Wolf-Man” and “Outcast,” have generally been just “okay” hasn’t given me cause to give up hope yet. If this first volume is any […]
Yeah, I’m honestly surprised that this volume even exists. I remember hearing about how mangaka Kiyohiko Azuma had to be cajoled into finishing the last story in the previous volume after putting the series on hiatus for a year. After hearing that I figured he either had a terrible work ethic or was just plain […]