Manga and Comic Reviews
Is this it? Kodansha Comics has already gone on record as saying that this will be the last volume of “Vinland Saga” published in the U.S. unless sales pick up. So if you like this series and haven’t already picked up all seven volumes, you’d better go do it now! If you haven’t, then vol. […]
I doubt we’ll ever see the original artist of “The Walking Dead,” Tony Moore, ever come back to that series for anything besides a variant cover. Meanwhile, over at “Invincible,” original artist Corey Walker just can’t seem to stop making return trips to that title after all these years. He usually shows up to pinch-hit […]
“Rebirth.” That’s the buzzword from DC publisher Dan Didio on Twitter, leading most everyone to think that the company is planning ANOTHER relaunch later this year. Rich Johnston seems to think that this will involve another round of new #1 issues and a tighter focus between the company’s TV and film projects. This year will […]
Not only is this a volume all about the organization’s ectoplasmic medium Johann, it’s also the concluding chapter to the story of Pvt. Patrick Redding that was started in “Sledgehammer ‘44.” Things start off on a down note as Johann finds himself to be at odds with the members of his current team after a […]
Hiroaki Samura has done a couple series since wrapping up his epic masterpiece “Blade of the Immortal.” This one is just the first to reach our shores. Expecting something on the same level of brilliance as his signature series would just be an exercise in setting myself up for disappointment. Yet this is likely to […]
One of these days I’ll eventually migrate to reading comics digitally instead of in print. Not yet, though. Not when titles like this, originally published online in a “pay what you want” metric can still find their way into being a physical product. (Particularly when the way involves a handshake deal between Brian K. Vaughan […]
Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s series was the standout amongst Marvel’s initial round of “Star Wars” collections and this second volume shows that its quality wasn’t a fluke. Vader continues the rebuilding of his power base with an ambitious heist of a deceased crimelord’s fortune from the Empire. Though the act, masterminded by his associate […]
There’s a new volume of a certain manga being advance-solicited here! That’s right, after a year and a half of waiting, Dark Horse is finally releasing vol. 16 of “Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project.” Can you feel the excitement here! ARE YOU NOT YET ENTERTAINED!?!?!? …Ugh. Well, at least this means the […]
I actually had to go back and re-read Garth Ennis’ previous “Phantom Eagle” miniseries, surtitled “War Is Hell,” to refresh my knowledge of the main character. That’s because Karl Kaufmann comes off in this story as an arrogant, self-entitled little shit that deserves every indignity heaped upon him here. As opposed to the previous miniseries […]
The series comes to a satisfying end, even though I was expecting a bit more after the build-up from the previous volume. By all rights the highlight of vol. 12 should’ve been the cat-and-mouse duel between Amuro and Char given the way their paths have crossed over the course of the series and the sheer […]