Manga and Comic Reviews
The aftermath of the American Civil War isn’t the last place I’d expect to see as the setting for a manga, but it’s pretty close. “Sacred Beasts” kicks right off with its high concept: In the face of losing the war, the Northern States resorted to using “forbidden arts” to create unstoppable soldiers based on […]
Robert Kirkman has joked in the past that his dream with “Invincible” was to hand it over to other creators at some point and have it live on in much the same way that Marvel and DC titles do. That one day he would pick up the latest issue of the title, from younger creators […]
There will be no review of Garth Ennis’ and John McCrea’s “All-Star Section 8” here. I was planning to do one, and it would’ve focused on how it was pretty much what you’d expect: Ennis bringing in DC’s heroes for one more kicking with as much bathroom humor as he could get away with in […]
“The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia” has been the biggest-selling project to come out of Dark Horse in recent memory. Two years after its release, it still makes the list of bestselling comic-related books on Diamond’s charts. The problem is that despite all of its success, it’s still a book that originally came from Nintendo, […]
Vol. 7 wastes no time in picking up where the peasant army left off in their siege of the castle of Schwyz. If you’ve enjoyed mangaka Mitsuhisa Kuji’s depiction of medieval siege weaponry and tactics, then she has a lot more to offer up here. We get to see the peasant army, led by the […]
While the overall quality of their licensed comics has tended to be generally quite good over the years, it’s still somewhat rare to see a “name” creator on one of them at Dark Horse. So when it was announced that Greg Rucka would be writing the “Magekiller” miniseries set in BioWare’s “Dragon Age” universe, it […]
Stop me if this sounds familiar to you: A blowhard businessman decides to run for president and wins the hearts of millions with his straight talk while offending even more with his rhetoric and poor temperament. That’s the setup for “Citizen Jack,” but its protagonist, Jack Northworthy, has one thing in his corner that Trump […]
For the freshman finals at King’s Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts, all of the rats must die. This includes series protagonist Marcus, his goth girlfriend Petra, and former friend turned current ally Billy. Their race to survive all the teen assassins coming for their heads stands as some of the most thrilling storytelling that […]
The best part about the first two volumes (we’re not counting “Vader Down” here) of Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s “Darth Vader” title is how it presents the title character in a diminished state with a struggle before him, and still presents this Dark Lord of the Sith as an uncompromising badass who is not […]
It becomes clearer to me with each passing volume that there is nothing more to be done with the concept of sequential art as a medium after this. Yes, all writers can stop writing, artists can stop drawing, and all inkers, assistants, colorists, and letterers can lay down their tools in the face of the […]