Manga and Comic Reviews
WAR HAS COME TO ARAKKO! On one side is Genesis, the former ruler of the Arakki people, come to reclaim them from what she, and the whispering Annihilation staff, see as the weaknesses they have incurred on their time in this plane. On the other are Storm and her Brotherhood, determined to show these mutants […]
Groo ended his last adventure in “Gods Against Groo” stranded out on the ocean with his faithful companion Rufferto. It’s a rare bit of continuity between stories that doesn’t portend anything longer as he soon finds himself back on dry land, and hungry! He’s got a craving for seafood, fruits, birds, or any kind of […]
The stakes continue to get higher with this volume as we find out what Celine “The Perfumer” Argente has come to Japan to find. Under Hakua’s orders, she’s to track down “Tozakura” which is described as an unnatural flower in a mountain somewhere, but longtime readers will also know it as Hinako’s last name. Surely […]
In vol. 3, things left off on a somewhat ominous note which was perfectly primed to take advantage of all the bad stuff that was going to happen at the latest “Hellfire Gala.” In this volume, we get to pick up on the fallout of that event in some satisfying ways. What of Charles Xavier, […]
Last time was all the setup for the latest “Hellfire Gala” and “Fall of X,” and I mentioned that it didn’t exactly get me excited for the idea of Marvel’s Merry Mutants losing to a secret science organization that hates them. Again. So I guess it’s appropriate that the five issues collected here are… perfectly […]
Keanu Reeves’ first comic series “BRZRKR,” co-written with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney, was something of a misfire. The story of an immortal berserker named Unute was very self-serious and more concerned with dishing up bloody action than an interesting story. I liked the parts where the story threatened to get weird in […]
The saga of the Schlong Slicer comes to a climax here after Junna brings the foreigner back to her apartment, with all hell breaking loose shortly thereafter. What should’ve been an easy takedown by experienced ninjas winds up being a three-way free-for-all involving a drone as the foreigner proves to be more capable than initially […]
I don’t know why this one-shot wasn’t collected with “Ultimate Invasion.” Maybe it’s because Bryan Hitch didn’t draw it, but this still features very capable work from Stefano Caselli. I wonder because it contains some story beats that flow directly from that miniseries and directly set up events for the first three “Ultimate” titles. The […]
Saying “around the turn of the millennium” is something that makes me feel old, but it was when Marvel unleashed their one imprint that genuinely resonated with me: Ultimate Marvel. The concept was “What if the Marvel Universe had started today?” and the results took the industry by storm. “Ultimate X-Men” was a blockbuster right […]
The first volume of this revival of the venerable British series “Battle Action” was an anthology spotlighting a wide swath of characters that featured in it over the years. All of the stories were written by Garth Ennis who also provided commentary on why each of them mattered to the magazine. To him as well […]