Manga and Comic Reviews
I picked up a couple volumes of writer Matt Hawkins and artist Rashan Ekedal’s “Think Tank” at Comic-Con and wound up liking their funny, clever, and occasionally quite disturbing look at the exploits of a young scientist whose genius is matched only by his ego and irreverent personality. While that series is currently on hiatus, […]
This final volume is a collection of side stories and an epilogue that sends the series out on a high note. The most substantial (in terms of page count) is the opening three-part story about Viv and her arrival in France and the first time she saw Maria in action. While I can see what […]
Dark Horse has a new editor in chief as Dave Marshall replaces Scott Allie as the latter moves on to pursue other projects. While I certainly hope that the company benefits from the move, we now have an indication about how it’ll affect their publishing of Japanese titles. Anime News Network reached out to Carl […]
Even for a large company, a two million dollar budget shortfall is still cause for concern. That’s the issue facing DC at the moment and they’re scrambling for a plan to do something about it. While most of the shortfall is said to be attributed to costs incurred from the East-to-West Coast move, the news […]
You know, it’s been… *goes to check the publication date on “Hellboy vol. 5: Conqueror Worm”* thirteen years since Hellboy quit the B.P.R.D. It’d be quite an understatement to just say that a lot has happened in that time, but seeing the title character reunite with the organization he grew up with is not likely […]
With this volume, mangaka Gamon Sakurai continues his efforts to yank the narrative in the direction he wants it to go. Frankly, I was hoping we were going to get a series about a charismatic psychopath (Sato) who is out to murder those in the government, military, and big business who wanted to exploit his […]
I was hoping that this Peter Milligan-written miniseries about sex, the world of high finance, revenge, and an esoteric sci-fi concept would be one of the projects from the notoriously hit-or-miss writer that actually hit. Instead, “The Names” turned out to be one of his less interesting failures. The story kicks off when Kevin Walker, […]
After much waiting, the Matt Fraction/David Aja run of “Hawkeye” is finally over and collected. I can say that it’s been fun. Not really “BEST COMIC EVAR IN RECENT MARVEL HISTORY!!1!” but definitely one of Fraction’s better efforts at the company and a fantastic showcase for the skills of Aja. That said, the most surprising […]
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 […]