Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
The big ticket item in this month’s solicitations is the first issue of Doomsday Clock, the twelve-issue maxiseries from Geoff Johns and Gary Frank that will further the integration of “Watchmen” into the DCU. This is problematic for a couple of reasons — aside from the fact that integrating “Watchmen” into the DCU is still […]
We’ve reached the end of the summer convention season and Dark Horse finally (FINALLY!) announced a new manga license. Well, it’s not a manga, actually. You could probably call it manga-adjacent, really, given that its subject is best known as an illustrator/character designer. The license in question is Yoshitaka Amano: Beyond the Fantasy — An […]
For a series that started off so very well attuned to my (trashier) sensibilities, “Murcielago” has been doing a lot to get me to not like it. After lesbian mass-murderer protagonist Kuroko Koumori enthusiastically came on to an underage girl and the rock-stupid antics of Hinako in the last volume, the series plows into some […]
This series gets further back on track with its fourth volume (never mind the renaming/renumbering) as Olive Silverlock and her friends dive deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Academy. Things start off fine with Olive and her friends investigating a cult of witches that has sprung up on campus and the introduction of her new […]
I’ve said before that there are two sides to writer Charles Soule. The one most commonly on display is the one with his ruthless competence that you see in the majority of his superhero work. His writing on those titles can be involving and even quite enjoyable, but genuine surprises and cleverness are usually few […]
The big news for this series in the post-”Clone Conspiracy” world is that Stuart Immonen is now its regular artist and — OH DEAR GOD WHAT DID THEY DO TO HIS ART!?!?!? If you’ve ever wondered how important good coloring is to art these days, you’re going to want to check out this volume. Immonen’s […]
Vol. 1 left off with an effective cliffhanger that had another Outsider grabbing little girl Shiva’s face as her guardian Outsider, Teacher, walked in. What follows is unusual for the series so far in that it’s a fight scene and a surprisingly violent one at that, delivering blood and dismemberment at one point. It’s also […]
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. Yet the constant flow of new Image collections into my library continues unabated. Sometimes, however, there’s not much more to say about them than “title is still good,” “title is still average,” or “Rick Remender is back to his old tricks again.” There’s also the […]