Manga and Comic Reviews
No one writes “Punisher” better than Garth Ennis. His initial run with Steve Dillon brought the character back to basics and showed that he could work in dark comedy situations just as well as straight up action scenarios. Then the MAX run followed and the shift to a mature readers format allowed Ennis to take […]
Well, that was quick. The first volume of Alita’s latest series had me expecting that it’d be a while before we caught up to her present-day post-”Last Order” exploits. Vol. 2 of “Mars Chronicle” starts out by immediately going “nope” to my expectations and starts off with Alita and Erica meeting at the site of […]
With this, Scott Snyder’s “Batman” victory lap comes to a close. The first two volumes were pretty enjoyable even if they weren’t swinging for the fences in the way that the writer’s work with Greg Capullo on the main series did. For this third volume, Snyder teams with his “American Vampire” partner Rafael Albuquerque for […]
If you’ve been following this series in trade paperback form like I have then there’s no denying that “Uber” has returned to a time where its subject matter does it no favors. Kieron Gillen and confirmed regular artist Daniel Gete’s story of how the Nazis discovered the technology to make supermen and turned the tide […]
There’s always going to be tech problems at any con. Between mechanical and human errors it’s always a matter of “when” things are going to go wrong rather than “if.” For the first couple of days at this year’s Fanime it seemed like every panel that involved a laptop was hamstrung by some kind of […]
Inio Asano has had enough works translated into English that his tics have become readily apparent at this point. The characters who speak with arch know-it-all sensibilities, his love of magical realism or outright surrealism, and stories that mix everyday whimsy with crushing despair. It’s to the point where I’d imagine that you’re either onboard […]
I really want to say that this is one more reason that collecting comics in the hope that they’ll become valuable one day is for suckers, but… The story goes that after “The Walking Dead” launched back in 2004 a “Museum Edition” (read: oversized hardcover) of the first issue was created as part of a […]
The company may have lost the “Star Wars” and “Conan” licenses to Marvel, but they’ve been getting plenty of Disney licenses to help balance things out. Last month’s solicitations had the debut of an “Incredibles” miniseries while this month has the first issue of Frozen: Breaking Boundaries which is described as the first multi-issue comics […]
Who’s representing Marvel at the Eisners this year? They’ve got “Hawkeye” for Best Ongoing Series, “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” and “X-Men: Grand Design” for Best Limited Series, “Black Bolt” for Best New Series, Brian Stelfreeze and Julian Totino Tedesco as Best Cover Artists for “Black Panther” and “Hawkeye” (respectively), and Ed Piskor for Best […]
There’s an easy way to tell when a DC event means business. It’s when they use “Crisis” in its title. The original “Crisis on Infinite Earths” set the standard for being the crossover that really changed everything as it streamlined DC’s continuity in significant fashion. Subsequent events, such as “Zero Hour: Crisis in Time,” “Infinite […]