Manga and Comic Reviews
Now here’s the kind of volume I like to see from this series. It offers several stories that are entertaining on their own merits while also furthering the title’s long-term storytelling. Things get off to a great start with Ian snarkily waking up from a nightmare and proceeding to troll Casey for her presumably doomed […]
I didn’t bother to review the final part of “Part 1” as I would’ve just been repeating what I said about this series for its first two volumes: There were glimmers of potential, but things hadn’t come together just yet. Fortunately, “Part 2” kicks off with the kind of craziness that I like to see […]
Kieron Gillen’s arc of this series comes with two narratives. The one that takes place 75,000 years ago hinges on the scientific fact that mankind was on the verge of extinction at the time with potentially as few as 2,000 humans alive. While the eruption of a supervolcano and the resulting climate change it caused […]
For everyone who enjoyed the Fraction/Aja run on this series, new writer Jeff Lemire and artist Ramon Perez are here to let you know that the party is now over. The new guys are smart enough to know that they have to take things in a different direction than the previous creative team. Problem is […]
After enjoying his work so much on “Sunstone,” as well as the fill-in issues of “Rat Queens,” I’ve been interested in picking up more work from its writer/artist Stjepan Sejic. Problem is that he’s had a very long and still ongoing working relationship with Top Cow and their “Witchblade” series in particular. I can’t be […]
Is there anything that can stand in your way after you’ve achieved ultimate power? This volume of “One-Punch Man” has the answer: Bureaucracy! With his unbeatable power Saitama should be a shoe-in for joining the S-rank of superheroes after he and Genos go to sign up with the Hero Association. Yet for all of his […]
I hope everyone reading this had a good Thanksgiving. In addition to hanging out with family and catching up with a cousin I haven’t seen in YEARS, I also discovered the merciless satire of Illuminating Comics. Aside from providing some well-deserved skewering of Marvel’s editorial direction and relaunch frenzy, it has provided the only take […]
In a rather large oversight, I failed to mention what will likely be the biggest book of the month in my last roundup of Previews Picks for Image. “The Walking Dead” hits issue #150 in January with a dramatic cover and title, “BETRAYED,” to mark the occasion. Who will Rick be betrayed by? Before we […]
After escaping from his current timeline (again), multiversal special agent Casanova Quinn finds himself in Hollywood without his memory. Now living as Quentin Cassaday, he works as a majordomo for Amiel Boutique, a man of wealth and influence in the community. Boutique has a similar problem to Quinn as the old man can’t recall anything […]
(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 […]