Manga and Comic Reviews
Brubaker and Phillips are at it again. One of comics’ most reliable writer/artist teams, to the point where even their lesser projects turn out to be pretty readable, is back with a brand new title which tackles an all-new subject for them. This time around it’s the concept of vigilantism and what makes an average […]
Image’s 25th Anniversary celebration rolls on with these solicitations. So what can we look forward to along those lines in May? Well, the issue of “Saga” which kicks off its next arc will only set you back 25 cents. For those of you who are nostalgic for the time when Todd McFarlane actually drew “Spawn,” […]
Last year brought a big revamp for DC’s licensed Hanna-Barbera comics and characters and now the Looney Tunes characters are getting the same treatment. Coming out of ComicsPro is word of four “Vs.” titles that will see familiar DC characters pitted against specific Looney Tunes. One of them is genuinely inspired: Lobo vs. the Road […]
The school restaurant fair showdown between Classes E & A turns out not to be the main story for this volume. It’s dealt with pretty early on as the resourcefulness of Class E shows that they can at least go the distance against Class A even when the odds are so thoroughly stacked against them. […]
There has been a not-insignificant talent exodus within Marvel over the past few years. After the likes of Jonathan Hickman, Rick Remender, Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and more have told the stories they wanted and achieved a certain amount of fame for doing so, they’ve departed for Image to pursue creator-owned work. I believe […]
Last time in “Star Wars” Jason Aaron introduced a promising idea — that of a jail run by the Rebellion — only to drown it under conventional, predictable storytelling and see it written out of the series by the end of the arc. It would be hard for him to do worse after that and […]
Karen Berger is back! The big news coming out of the ComicsPro conference for Dark Horse is that the company will be publishing a new line of comics from the legendary editor. For those of you who might not know who she is, Berger rose to fame at DC in the late 80’s where she […]
Longtime readers have probably picked up on the fact that I’ve got a kind of weakness for manga that tackle foreign places and time periods. So it probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that I picked up the first volume of mangaka Kazuhiro Fujita’s “The Black Museum.” This is actually the second arc in the series, but […]
Save for a short story in the pages of “Thor: God of Thunder,” this is the first time Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera have worked together since completing their excellent Native American reservation-set crime series “Scalped.” That fact alone was enough to get me to give this series a shot. “The Goddamned” is best described […]
We’ve reached the end of Fred Van Lente’s tenure as writer of “Conan” and the best way to sum it up is by saying this: It was certainly a thing that happened. I want to say that his run would’ve been better served by having an arc to it, as was the case with the […]