Manga and Comic Reviews
Why yes, part of my plan for burning through all those titles last week was so that I could talk up the latest volume of this excellent series some more. With the New York Times having divested itself of reporting bestseller lists for manga (and graphic novels in general), there’s no way to tell whether […]
While the title may be there to conjure the same kind of specific nostalgia as “X-Men: Gold,” this is basically the latest iteration of “All-New X-Men” featuring the time-displaced version of the team. Dennis Hopeless’ take on them may have been the most pleasant surprise of the last “X-Men” relaunch, but this new direction from […]
The last time we had an “X-Men” relaunch like this I wrote about how Jeff Lemire’s first volume of “Extraordinary” felt like the welcome kind of nostalgia. That remained somewhat true for the rest of his short tenure on that title before the whole “Inhumans vs. X-Men” business kinda drove it into the ground. Now […]
Launching what is effectively the latest iteration of “X-Force” — violent mutants employing violently morally dubious solutions to violent mutant problems — as a prelude to a crossover doesn’t strike me as the best way to go about things. So I was honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed the issues collected here as Old […]
After years of toiling in near-obscurity turning out quality series like “The Paybacks” writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw finally hit it big earlier this year with their miniseries “God Country.” Now having read it, it’s easy to see why this miniseries caught on the way it did. It’s a textbook example of how […]
I look at my “to review (maybe)” shelf and realize that there are a lot of “next volume in a manga series” taking up the front half of it. You’ve probably noticed there’s a certain trend to when I review manga on this site and it’d take me a solid month to get through some […]
Before I sat down to write this I was preparing to dance around the reveal of the main threat for this second (and sadly, final) arc of “Mercury Heat.” Never mind the fact that it’s spoiled on the back of the volume. Then I went and re-read my review of the first volume and saw […]
I’m convinced that writer Nick Spencer conceived this volume as a final test to weed out the readers who aren’t completely on board with his “Hydra Cap” storyline. How else to explain the “Civil War II: The Oath” one-shot where Cap demonstrates an almost demonic glee as he gloats to a comatose Tony Stark about […]
The Turtles and Usagi have had a long fruitful relationship dating back to the late 80’s when Kevin Eastman asked Stan Sakai if he wanted an Usagi action figure as part of the Turtles’ toy line. Since then Usagi and the Turtles have met up a few times in comics and Usagi even guest-starred on […]
I was hoping that the security measures taken by the community that Hideo and Hiromi joined in the previous volume were just a result of them being cautious in this post-collapse world. Unfortunately it becomes clear very early on that this community is one of those awful quasi-fascist groups run by a crazy person that […]