Manga and Comic Reviews
Now this is more like it. Writer Fred Van Lente has yet to truly distinguish his run from previous “Conan” writers, but he turns in a tale with more variety and energy than the one he delivered in the previous volume. In order to obtain the treasure hoard known by the mute slave girl Diana, […]
Up until the end, this latest volume of the weird adventures of Lewis and Clark is another successful round of high adventure on the untamed American frontier. This time around the explorers see one of the mysterious arches in the distance and two weird things for their trouble. The first is a blue-feathered, smart-assed, Muppet-like […]
Interesting title for this volume, no? One would think that it’d be a particularly apt title since it sees half of the title’s creative team, artist Jamie McKelvie, absent for the majority of it. He only contributes a few pages of original art here, but the man had a good excuse — McKelvie was working […]
Up until this point Saitama has faced off against some pretty bad villains. But how will he survive the threat of a meteor which threatens all life on the planet? Or what about the Deep Sea King who has invaded the surface along with the rest of his fishy clan? Is this a threat that […]
This latest volume of “All-New X-Men” starts off with a pretty good story involving Emma Frost teaching/tormenting the time-displaced Jean Grey in Madripoor over the latter’s reliance on her telepathic powers over her telekinetic ones. It plays to Bendis’ strengths in character-driven dialogue (particularly with Emma’s bitchy banter), and features some striking art from Mike […]
Charles Soule wraps up his run with this volume, and it goes out on a pretty strong note. The introduction of the Metal Kingdom, teased on the last page of vol. 6, continues in full swing here as the emergent kingdom finds out the hard way that Alec Holland is not an avatar to be […]
This is something I’ve been waiting to see collected for quite a while. Here we have one of the best writers in comics with a substantial run on “Batman” that was never collected outside of a couple crossover issues and a four issue sampler from several years back. What gives? I figured that it had […]
Fran Madaraki just wants people to be happy. As the greatest creation of the legendary mad scientist Dr. Madaraki, she has the surgical skills to bend science and medicine to her will in order to accomplish just that. Whether it’s the head of a zaibatsu who wants his son brought back to life, a high […]
While the solicitations I riff on each month can be found in Previews Magazine, it was recently announced that Image will be offering its own magazine to complement it. Titled “Image+,” after a similar promotional magazine offered by the publisher back in the 90’s, it will not only spotlight new releases, but offer new creator-focused […]
Marvel has been cancelling a bunch of their second printings over the past few weeks. Up until now, the easiest thing to infer from this was that the shine has come off of their “All-New, All-Different Marvel NOW!” initiative. Now it’s being reported that several series will be getting new printings in a different manner […]