Manga and Comic Reviews
(The podcast is running late this week due to some last-minute scheduling issues. If it’s not up by sometime this weekend, then expect it next Wednesday and a new one to follow a week after.) After delivering the excellent “My Friend Dahmer,” John “Derf” Backderf decided to go mine a (debatably) more pleasant time in […]
My instincts turned out to be right and here we are with the penultimate volume of this series. Scientist Ochiai has successfully managed to transplant his consciousness into the other hybrid, Kanata, and is all set to destroy the Sidonia. Only some quick thinking from the now-promoted Vice Commander Midorikawa manages to avert this crisis. […]
So who is writing “The Dark Knight III?” It was originally solicited as a collaboration between Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello, but the former has made some interesting statements in recent interviews over the past week. Essentially they’ve given the impression that this second sequel is from Azzarello as opposed to a collaboration with Miller. […]
2015 is coming to a close, and I realized that it’s been a while since I’ve mentioned “Eden: It’s an Endless World!” on the blog. So let me reiterate that it’s the one series that I think everyone who visits here regularly should be reading. Full of heady sci-fi concepts and intense action, it never […]
Five years ago, I expressed my delight with the cute kitty antics depicted in the first volume of “Chi’s Sweet Home.” The series has reached its conclusion with vol. 12 and the reason you never read another review after the first… is because my feelings on it never really changed. Mangaka Konami Kanata’s art continued […]
Readers with long memories might recall that I was very much looking forward to reading this new graphic novel from brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon when it was announced earlier this year. After titles like “Daytripper” and “B.P.R.D.: Vampire,” and their work as artists on projects from the likes of Joss Whedon, Gerard Way, […]
Dozle’s arc in the previous volume will likely go down as the emotional high point of this series for me. But I’ll be damned if mangaka Yoshikazu Yasuhiko doesn’t serve up a chaotically epic final battle between the Federation and Zeon forces here. While the Federation forces were able to fry Solomon Base in the […]
How does Magneto deal with the Final Incursion that heralds “Secret Wars?” By pulling lots of strings to become more powerful than he ever has in order to repel the other Earth and ensure that mutants live to see tomorrow. Despite his good intentions, this is Magneto at his most self-aggrandizing and ruthless. Oh, he […]
This is an epic miniseries with some appropriately epic flaws as well. First off: If you haven’t read Grant Morrison’s previous big event comic, “Final Crisis,” then I suggest you do that now. Because that’s where Nix Uotan — last of the multiversal Monitors — was introduced along with other sinister story beats that follow […]
Are you ready to overthrow the patriarchy? Well that’s too damn bad because it’s too rich, clever, and well-entrenched to surrender to any kind of head-on attack. But what if some very clever women played the men’s game well enough to find themselves in the right place at just the right time to take out […]