Manga and Comic Reviews
I really liked the first volume of this series, especially at the price it was being offered at on Amazon. In the months since I wrote that first review, my affection for it has actually grown. Mangaka Izumi Tsubaki really nailed the essence of character-driven comedy with that first volume of this series about a […]
This volume collects the final six issues of the “Kanan” series, the first one of Marvel’s “Star Wars” line to be cancelled. Getting the axe after twelve issues may make it seem like this series was a creative misfire, but that’s not entirely the case here. If anything, “Kanan” was hamstrung by the decision to […]
Grant Morrison tackling a continuity-free reinvention of “Wonder Woman” with frequent and talented artistic collaborator Yanick Paquette: It sounds like can’t-miss proposition. The good news on that front is that “Wonder Woman: Earth One” is a solid read that is ultimately worth its hardcover cover price. The thing here is it’s Paquette’s art that dazzles […]
I honestly didn’t think we’d ever get to this point, but the end of the Mignolavese appears to be nigh. What with the final issue of “Hellboy in Hell” arriving and all of the hoopla that generated due to its status as the “last” story involving the character and the buildup towards the end of […]
After picking up all of those volumes of “TMNT” digitally (and vol. 13 while I was reading through them), this marks the first volume of their ongoing series from IDW that I’ve actually had to wait for. This managed to happen at the most dramatic point in the story so far as the most recent […]
I think if I wanted to be a hipster, this is the volume where I would declare that this series is “Over.” That’s right “One-Punch Man” is no longer cool because our hero no longer embodies the title of his series. When an alien spacecraft lands on Earth and proceeds to lay waste to the […]
This penultimate volume doesn’t get off to the best of starts. Sure it shows us Toni Chu in Heaven making nice with Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan, but then it jumps over to showing us Olive Chu’s future career with the FDA. It’s good for some laughs, but its relevance to the main story is […]
It wasn’t all panels, screenings, and checking out places to eat at the con. …Actually on second thought, it really was with my phone and 3DS picking up the slack otherwise. But for the plane trips there and back I had to rely on the comics in my backpack. They were generally quite good and […]
I’m doing my best to shake off the annual bout of post-con depression here. This year’s Fanime didn’t have the depressing lows or thrilling high of the previous one, but it was an awesome experience overall. That’s because there was enough going on between panels, screenings, and visits to the dealer’s hall and artist’s alley […]
I’ve been writing these “Previews Picks” ahead of my trip to Fanime and I’ve been saving this one for last. Mainly because I thought that after nothing came out of Sakura-Con, we’d get some juicy news from Dark Horse Manga at Anime Central this past weekend. As it turned out, they didn’t even have a […]