Manga and Comic Reviews
Out of all the new characters introduced in “The Force Awakens” it probably makes the most sense to give Poe Dameron his own ongoing series. After all, “hotshot pilot for the Resistance” does offer up a wider variety of story possibilities than “growing up on Tatooine” and “growing up as a stormtrooper” (though, in the […]
As the villain in “Renew Your Vows,” Dan Slott’s “Spider-Man” contribution to “Secret Wars,” Regent wasn’t all that special. While it was interesting to see a villain with a power-hoarding gimmick like his amass enough power to take over the Marvel Universe, his main purpose in the story was to just be the big bad […]
The title to this series (as well as its first volume) is entirely appropriate considering the character’s origins. Originally an amalgamation of Gwen Stacey and Deadpool who showed up on the variant cover to “Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars” #2, the character image became quite popular with fans. But how do you turn such a thing […]
While I’ve enjoyed the previous two volumes of this series, I haven’t been entirely crazy about them. Though the love triangle at its core between jellyfish otaku Tsukimi, gorgeous cross-dresser Kuranosuke, and his straight-laced brother Shu is competently handled, there’s not a lot much new there. Even when you consider the crossdressing angle. Mangaka Akiko […]
Forget about what to look forward to from Marvel next year. Here’s what they should do: Run their events in serial not parallel order. Right now we’re in the thrall of “Civil War II,” “The Clone Conspiracy,” and “Inhumans vs. X-Men” each with their own assorted tie-ins throughout their respective lines. Forget about the usual […]
What can we look forward to with Image next year? Well, I’m still hoping that “World Domination by Way of Comics” is still on their agenda. They’re consistently putting out the most interesting and diverse set of comics in the western world and there’s only going to be more to look forward to in the […]
What’s there to look forward to from DC in 2017? Mostly them making good on the plot threads that were set up in the “Rebirth” one-shot from earlier this year. So if you’ve been waiting for them to explain who Mr. Oz (who is totally not Ozymandias from “Watchmen”) really is or where the “Watchmen” […]
It’s close enough to the end of the year that it’s time for me to come back to my favorite talking point regarding this company: manga. After 2015 offered a bright spark of hope with the licensing of “I Am a Hero,” 2016 was back to the doldrums. Not that Kengo Hanazawa’s zombie manga wasn’t […]
I found the start of the current arc in the previous volume to be pretty underwhelming and it gets even worse here! It’s awful! Horrible! I’ve now lost all faith in this series and the world is now a dark and empty place because… I’m just kidding about all that, really. The conclusion to the […]
Grant Morrison has a well-deserved reputation as an ideas man. So I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that he came up with the idea of doing an origin story for Santa Claus that takes the character back to his Germanic and Viking-related origins. Klaus was a captain in the Grimsvig guard until he was driven […]