Manga and Comic Reviews
The main series may be over, but here’s one more volume of this (decidedly uneven) spinoff series for the road! Longtime “Fables” artist Mark Buckingham writes the six-issue title story as he picks up on a stray plot thread. Back during his campaign for mayor of Fabletown, Prince Charming promised glamours for all of the […]
Fred Van Lente makes his debut as the new writer for this series and almost immediately has Conan getting into trouble in the land of Kush. The barbarian, still feeling the loss of his love Belit, gets drunk enough to have his gear stolen by a fence and then thrown into a junk pile teeming […]
It’s the penultimate volume of this series, and mangaka Hiroya Oku decides to oblige the readers who have been following it for so long with some answers. To his credit, they’re actually fairly interesting ones that explain some of the nonsense that has come before and play against your expectations. Vol. 37 starts off on […]
As the first epilogue to this volume makes abundantly clear, this is Tony Chu’s FINAL showdown with The Collector. Easily identifiable as the series’ “big bad” from his first appearance way back in vol. 2, this vampiric cibopath is responsible for the single most shocking act in this series — the death of Tony’s sister […]
Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s sordid saga of sex, murder, and live TV comes to a surprisingly upbeat end with this volume. Former army vet turned stagehand turned TV star Michael White has been trying to find out who killed his dad, the original “Satellite Sam.” While progress has been made there has also been […]
I think I’m about done with Rick Remender. His tendency for grinding down characters was what got me to stop reading “Fear Agent” a few years back, and it’s become more prevalent in his recent work from Marvel. Granted, the writer has written some great stories for that company, and the first volume of this […]
Principal Asano wins one and loses one in my book for this volume. I was very much looking forward to seeing how his intervention would change the shape of the baseball game between Class E and the varsity squad at the end of the previous volume. Though he offers some choice motivation that helps the […]
Something that escaped my notice last month: A new series called Switch from Stjepan Sejic, creator of “Sunstone.” How could I gloss over a new title from a creator I like? When it involves an apparent relaunch of “Witchblade,” a series Sejic worked on for years, and I’ve had zero interest in ever since it […]
How big of an event is “Secret Wars?” So big that they couldn’t fit the story into the solicited eight issues. It was announced earlier this week that we’re getting an extra — ninth — issue to wrap up Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic’s epic storyline. That said, it’s not clear if we’re actually getting […]
All good stories about ninjas who are also doctors must eventually come to an end. Such is the case when creator Chris Hastings announced earlier this month that the current arc of this series (currently being serialized at www.drmcninja.com) will be its last. I’m cool with that. You can only sustain inspired craziness like this […]