Manga and Comic Reviews
Things start off with a decent enough sci-fi mystery steeped in the history of the Marvel Universe. The Guardians, with Captain Marvel along for the ride, are cruising along on their merry way when suddenly a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier appears right out of the ether! If that weren’t surprising enough, it’s being commanded by none other […]
Tsukimi Kurashita is an 18-year-old jellyfish fanatic living in Tokyo with a gaggle of other fangirls with their own obsessions. Residing in a communal apartment and going by the nickname “Amars,” they live by their own camaraderie (and off of the goodwill of their parents) while maintaining a healthy distrust of those scary people known […]
The annual Image Expo was held earlier this month and (BIG SURPRISE) a lot of cool-sounding new titles were announced. “The Black Monday Murders” is Jonathan Hickman’s new title with artist Tomm Coker and is based on the idea that all of the major financial institutions that run the world are actually secret schools of […]
Between the two sales-challenged manga series that I routinely talk up, “Vinland Saga” and “Eden: It’s an Endless World!,” it looks like the former is getting a reprieve later this year. Kodansha U.S.A. announced at the Emerald City Comic-Con that vol. 8 of Makoto Yukimura’s excellent historical viking action series will be coming out later […]
I’ve been spoiled for the mystery behind the new Thor for quite a while now. So the drama behind the big reveal falls pretty flat. I was expecting that, however, and the three-part story leading up to the reveal by writer Jason Aaron and artist Russell Dauterman still manages to be pretty entertaining in and […]
“And I’d like to go on record as saying this is the dumbest idea in the history of Gotham City. Now where’s my damn Batmobile? Let’s go have some fun.” With those lines I completely bought into the idea of Commissioner James Gordon taking over for Batman in a robot Bat-suit. Yeah, I’ll admit that […]
I should hate this series now. After all, this volume finally breaks the one thing I really liked about the early volumes. That would be the “Magneto-esque” morality behind Sato’s actions. Clearly a skilled killer, his actions against the government were somewhat justified in light of the ruthless experimentation and testing being performed on other […]
I really enjoyed what writers Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher did with the first volume of the series, along with the art from Karl Kerschl. This naturally led me to anticipate vol. 2, which has turned out to be a letdown. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong here as the smooth, engaging storytelling […]
I’ve been eagerly anticipating this volume since it was announced back in 2012 as we’re helpfully reminded by its backmatter. I won’t begrudge creators Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie for taking so long to get back to it, particularly since we got “Young Avengers” and “The Wicked + The Divine” in the meantime. As those […]
Rick Remender’s creator-owned output through Image can be charitably described as “uneven.” Though he’s clearly a skilled writer, he needs to find a new approach beyond simply tossing his characters into hopeless situations and then starting to grind them down. It’s an approach that has worked on “Deadly Class,” is on the verge of breaking […]