Manga and Comic Reviews
When I opened up this volume to its first story page and saw one of its protagonists being smacked in the head by some rotten fruit, my first thought was, “Which one is she again?” Reading further in I was reminded that she was KJ, the paper girl who was sent to a different time […]
“Mother Panic” co-creator Gerard Way says in his afterword that the idea for this series was basically what would Bruce Wayne, and by extension Batman, be like if he grew up in today’s celebrity-obsessed environment. Way also states that the series started as a creator-owned title before he got the chance to bring its protagonist, […]
This second volume of Brubaker and Phillips’ vigilante contains two more issues than the first one. More does not always mean better, but in this case it does as it means we see more of its protagonist’s, Dylan’s, struggles as killing starts to get a lot more complicated for him. It starts when some cops […]
While I admire a lot of things about this series its best trait may be how economical its storytelling is. What I mean is that in comparison to other (very) long-running Shonen Jump titles, mangaka Yusei Matsui rarely feels the need to drag arcs of this series out over multiple volumes. For example: Last volume […]
Thanks to how I buy comics, when I buy comics, and the supply of where I buy comics from (more Cheap Graphic Novels than Amazon these days) I’ve wound up with a small backlog of “Star Wars” comics to write about. Given the generally good quality of the line from Marvel so far, there are […]
To his credit, it does appear with this volume that writer Jeff Lemire does have a story he wants to tell about the title character. Specifically involving the tortured (to put it mildly…) relationship he has with his son, Thane. You see, Thanos the Younger has assembled a group of people — Nebula, Starfox, and […]
Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s work together on the excellent and long-running “100 Bullets” cemented them as one of the best writer/artist teams in the industry. Their concurrent/subsequent work on “Batman” also bore this out even though Azzarello’s overwrough vernacular derailed their subsequent creator-owned collaboration “Spaceman.” The Prohibition-set “Moonshine” is their latest work and I […]
The bad news is that there’s not one moment in the art for this volume that gets me like it did in vol. 4. There are some striking moments, however. Gosho’s iron-willed determination to get out of a fiery situation late in the volume is impressively conveyed and followed up with the sequential art version […]
Looking at Marvel’s actions over the years, the publisher clearly thinks that any major event they have is worth overdoing. Which is why in addition to the renumbering of several of their ongoing titles to match their “Legacy” numbering, we’re getting several additional one-off revivals of cancelled series from yesteryear. Why? Most likely because Marvel […]
After hitting it big as the writer of “God Country” and “Redneck” for Image, Donny Cates has been busy transitioning his backlist over from Dark Horse to his current publisher. This includes a miniseries which had an unusual route to its collected editions. “The Ghost Fleet” was an eight-issue miniseries about a trucking company that […]