Manga and Comic Reviews
Given how he’s such a pivotal character in the “Hellboy” mythos, you’d think that we’d have received a miniseries spotlighting Rasputin long before now. Well, despite what this volume says on the cover “The Voice of the Dragon” isn’t really a story about him. Rasputin’s in it, but co-writers Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson should’ve […]
If you were hoping that the lesbian psychodrama which provided the high point of the previous volume would continue in some way here, then you’re going to be disappointed. The good news is that the sexy shenanigans of this volume are some of the best this series has offered up in recent memory. It starts […]
Ever since the final pages of the first volume teased that we’d be getting a racially-charged gender-swapped revisionist take on the “one man cleans up a crooked town” storyline, I’ve been waiting for this series to make good on it. Volumes one and two did a good job laying the groundwork, but while the individual […]
Doctor Jonathan Shipwright has just survived a shipwreck. Nevermind the fact that when we first meet him he’s staring up at some birds from his back on a dusty road. We learn about his situation when he has a conversation at a broken-down diner with a yellow-coated inspector who gives the impression that he knows […]
Lately, writing out these Previews Picks entries every month has felt more like a grind than a fun diversion from all the reviews I write around here. So this month I’m going to try something new. Below the link are my thoughts on the most notable solicitations from DC, Dark Horse, Image, and Marvel as […]
Aphra’s creator, Kieron Gillen, is credited as a co-writer on this arc, but the story here does feel more like the work of incoming co-writer Si Spurrier. That’s not a bad thing as Spurrier has done some great work at Marvel and other publishers in the past and here he seems to be focused on […]
What’s new in the land of “Kamuy?” Sugimo and Asirpa have just pulled the latest convict with a tattooed skin out of the sea at a fishing village. Unfortunately for them, they don’t know that he’s the man they want or that he’s a serial killer with a death wish. While he’ll kill a man […]
It was a fun idea while it lasted. I’m talking about the idea of Laura Kinney assuming the mantle of Wolverine during the run of this title. After this volume she’ll be back to being X-23 in a title of the same name from a different creative team. Honestly, that development is more than a […]
After the previous volume my biggest concern with this one was “How is the art going to turn out?” To my surprise, things are actually better this time around. It appears that artist Salvador Larroca and colorist GURU-eFX have decided to double-down on making the human characters (and those humans who were also in the […]
While I liked the first volume of this title well enough, the second one leaves me feeling that this storyline has a real big problem to it. It’s not in how Charles Soule handles his large ensemble. He gets the characters more or less right and divides up the action so that no one of […]