Manga and Comic Reviews
I probably should’ve mentioned this earlier, but tie-ins to “Secret Wars” came in three different flavors. The titles branded with “Last Days” showed how their characters reacted to the end of the Marvel Universe (such as it was). “Battlezones” gave us a look at the goings-on in different regions while the main event was going […]
The sprawling “Batman Eternal” weekly series gets a follow-up of sorts focusing on all of the sidekicks the Caped Crusader has had over the years. It may be telling a less epic story in half the space (this ran for 26 issues rather than 52), but that decision turns out to be the right one […]
Everyone’s favorite wookiee gets his own miniseries from Marvel with some fantastic art from Phil Noto! Seriously, the art is the strongest thing about this series as Noto invests a great amount of detail and style in rendering the world that Chewbacca has crash-landed on. From the mines filled with explosive larvae, to the rural […]
I talked about the first two volumes a bit at the end of the “Gantz” podcast as they represented a dramatic shift from mangaka Hiroya Oku’s seinen sci-fi action series. It’s still a sci-fi action tale, but one more concerned with how a timid old man, the titular Inuyashiki, adapts to the power granted to […]
After the previous volume saw master thief Conrad “Redmond” Paulson get himself and his family out from under the thumb of Lola, it would appear that our protagonist has finally got everything he ever wanted. Well, except for the fact that his ex-wife still hates him. And, more pressingly, his former partner Celia is still […]
Don’t call it a reboot, because they’ve been to that well a bit too often for that to work again. As DC describes it, “Rebirth” is simply the company getting back to the basics of their characters and focusing on what works best for them. While most of the titles and creative teams weren’t that […]
If the first volume of this series from “B.P.R.D.” co-writer John Arcudi and frequent artist James Harren had one problem, it was the fact that it took a few issues for its point to come into focus. That’s not a problem with this second volume as it quickly brings us up to speed on the […]
There’s a new volume of “Berserk” slated to come out in Japan this summer. If we’re lucky, Dark Horse might be able to put it out in English by the end of the year. Even if they do manage to pull that off, three years will have passed between the release of new volumes of […]
WonderCon will have wrapped up as I post this, but not as I’m writing. Who knows, by the time I come back to this on Sunday maybe I’ll have some interesting Marvel news to write about here. As it stands, on this Friday evening, all we have are a couple panels of creators extolling the […]
This is the month where just about EVERYTHING comes back for another arc. You’ve got titles that I read and was waiting for to return: “Casanova: Acedia,” “Descender,” and “Lazarus.” Titles that I read, but wasn’t sure if they’d be coming back for another volume: “Rumble,” and “Thief of Thieves.” Titles that I haven’t read […]