Manga and Comic Reviews
Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s “Darth Vader” series stands tall as the best “Star Wars” comic released by Marvel. Seriously, if you have any love for “Star Wars” and you haven’t read this series yet then you need to fix that! So when it was announced a few months after “Darth Vader” ended that there […]
Well, that didn’t take long. It turns out that Image will be the publisher of Mark Millar’s “Netflix Comics” imprint instead of Dark Horse. I read that the main concern with having Image act as a publisher for the imprint was that the work-for-hire nature of some of Millar’s projects would clash with the company’s […]
Who’s going to be the Next Big Thing over at Marvel? Right now, all signs point to it being Donny Cates. After generating a lot of heat with his creator-owned projects “God Country” and “Redneck” (at Image) and “Babyteeth” (at Aftershock) Marvel succeeded in getting him to work for them before DC could. Their investment […]
So it looks like I might have to change the name of this column when it comes to talking about the monthly solicitations from Previews for DC, and Marvel. Both companies have announced that they’re leaving the Previews catalogue and will be publishing their own monthly preview magazines. They’re both large enough that they can […]
This rambling and energetically chaotic volume finally catches us up to the Japanese release after a couple years of waiting. Now we get to wait some more as mangaka Kohta Hirano has never been known for having the strictest work ethic. He’s not in the same league as “Berserk’s” Kentaro Miura, but this volume shipped […]
While there’s still no word on how the Disney/Fox merger is going to affect the comics based on Fox properties that Dark Horse publishes, it’s good to see the company taking steps to shore things up before that issue is resolved. Interestingly, one of these new licenses is coming from Disney itself: “Frozen.” Dark Horse […]
The first volume of Jeff Lemire’s run on “Thanos” was an unexpected surprise. Mainly because it gave the impression that he did have a story to tell about the Mad Titan and it involved the tortured relationship he had with his son. Now that we have the second volume, and conclusion to the story, I’m […]
I was worried for a while after starting this volume that the series had reached the point where it was losing its volume-to-volume appeal and a full re-read was going to be necessary in order to appreciate everything that was going on. The basics of the plot are easy enough to grab as the cast […]
This is starting to drift into “Why am I still reading it?” territory. It looked for a while that the series was going to become more than a wacky rom-sit-com as Tsukimi, Kuranosuke, and the rest of the otaku AMARS gang branched out into making their own fashion startup. That completely fell through and now […]
Creators Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr (co-writer, co-writer/layout artist, and artist, respectively) managed to spark a mini-revolution at DC with their run on “Batgirl.” Their “Batgirl of Burnside” brought a real sense of style and fun to the “New 52” and enough buzz to get DC to follow their lead. It didn’t last, […]