Manga and Comic Reviews
“Decompressed” is a funny title for this volume. That’s because writer/artist Matt Kindt does nothing but put pressure on his protagonist, Mia, and on the reader as well. Mia is still trying to figure out who killed her father, Hari, in the undersea base he was working at. Keep in mind that said base is […]
The first volume of this series worked because of the unique angle writer/artist Jeff Lemire found to address the long-standing shared grief the members of the Pike family felt over the death of their youngest member, Tommy. Except for oldest sibling and prodigal son Pat, each family member chose to remember Tommy in an idealized […]
What feels like the endgame for this series kicks off in this volume as Sato makes his move. What move is that you ask? Why negotiations with the Ministry of Welfare — the same organization that has been kidnapping and torturing demi-humans to see how they can benefit society. What’s that you say? Negotiating with […]
“Invincible” was a pretty great comic. So great that it might wind up having two concurrent adaptations to two different mediums. That Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg had snatched up the rights to a film version and were in the process of developing it broke last year. Now, Amazon has announced that they’ll be producing […]
While we’re still waiting to find out how the Batman/Catwoman wedding is going to go down, “X-Men: Gold” gave us a look at the kind of bait-and-switch that tends to go along with these kinds of events. The series has been building up to a Kitty Pryde/Colossus wedding for a while now and issue #30 […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: DC is embarking on another initiative to expand comics’ readership and is pissing off its retailers in the process. It was announced last week that DC will be selling a monthly line of 100-Page Giant anthology collections via Wal-Mart featuring “Batman,” “Superman,” and “Justice League.” While the majority […]
It was announced a year or so back that Netflix would be making a series out of the Dark Horse title “The Umbrella Academy.” While we’re still waiting for news about how that’s going, it looks like the relationship between the two companies goes both ways. I say this because Dark Horse will be publishing […]
Even though I did a podcast featuring both titles, I can’t say that I’ve got a definite plan of covering them together for the future. It just so happens that new volumes of “Kaguya-sama” and “Silver Spoon” come out at around the same time. So I’ll probably talk about them together for the forseeable future […]
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog regularly know that I’ve been waiting for this first volume for a while. “Sunshine & Roses” debuted back in February of 2015 and, contrary to just about every other published series on the market, waited until the series was over thirty issues in to issue its first […]
This latest “Groo” miniseries is a bit more on target than the last as it’s clear that Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier are making specific fun of something here. That would be Spain’s attempt to conquer, convert, and exploit the “new world” in the late 1400’s, early 1500’s. If you’re thinking that’s a remarkably… specific […]