Manga and Comic Reviews
Greg Rucka’s consistently entertaining, consistently overpriced shaggy-dog P.I. reaches its fourth volume. This time around, Dexedrine Parios’ life takes a turn for the absurd but not ridiculous. She’s hired by Mr. Weeks, a rich coffee enthusiast and maker, to deliver the first pound of his inaugural batch of Wild Thai Civet coffee to him after […]
Honestly, I was worried that the direction of this new arc meant that this title’s best days were behind it. Flipping the premise to put the Shadow Student Council in prison and the boys on the outside felt too obvious a way to mix things up for “Prison School” going forward. The good news is […]
I’ve mentioned before that the best thing Rob Liefeld has done as a comic creator is to let other talented individuals like Brandon Graham and Alan Moore play around with the characters he’s made. However, he’s also responsible for giving a lot of creators and industry people their big break when he co-founded Image back […]
So… Marvel has had kind of a terrible month in terms of PR, haven’t they? From the contents of David Gabriel’s summit with retailers, to the Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian messages hidden in “X-Men Gold” #1, to the ongoing controversies surrounding “Secret Empire,” the comics side of the company is currently going through one of those phases […]
The “Dark Days” prelude continues with “The Casting” in this month’s solicitations, though the main event will kick off next month with “Dark Nights: Metal” courtesy of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. That expectations for this are sky-high after the success of their “Batman” run, but they managed to thrive on going bigger with each […]
We’re going outside Dark Horse’s solicitations for the above-board talk this month. That’s because IDW will be publishing (co-publishing?) a crossover between the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Usagi Yojimbo.” If that team-up sounds like such a natural fit that you’re wondering why they haven’t done this before, then you’re either not old enough or […]
“Blade of the Immortal” certainly had plenty of irreverent moments strewn throughout its thirty-one volumes. In reading mangaka Hiroaki Samura’s other works it becomes clear that’s his default mindset and he was doing his best to suppress it while working on his magnum opus. While such irreverence can get a little wearying at times and […]
James Tynion IV has been working on assorted Bat-titles over the past few years and either co-writing or doing various fill-in issues during Scott Snyder’s run on “Batman.” Now he’s being given his shot at the brass ring as the new writer for “Detective Comics” and has come up with a novel approach for the […]
What do you do when your title has a three-issue tie-in with the latest big comic event and is heading for a relaunch shortly thereafter? If you’re Mark Waid then your answer comes in three parts: Tell a story setting up a future story, tell a story setting up a new series (with its co-writer), […]
Here’s another series where if I had known this was going to be the last volume of it, I’d have saved doing the podcast on it until now. Anyhow, writer Matz and artist Luc Jacamon’s long-running series about a professional killer reaches an ambiguous end despite the global ambitions portended at the end of the […]