Manga and Comic Reviews
I know I’ve said this before, but when you’ve got a series whose storytelling is more episodic than serialized the wait between volumes doesn’t sting as much. Granted, I’d love for this series to be more popular so we could get caught up to the Japanese release (and get the spinoffs as well). This isn’t […]
This series came to my attention at that manga publisher roundtable I attended at Comic-Con. A series about a practitioner of Japanese calligraphy who moves out to a rural island is selling better than the publisher expected? I have to see how such odd subject matter is connecting with fans! As these things go, the […]
It’s actually been a while since I’ve followed a Vertigo series that was cut down before it could finish its run. Yet here we are with the third and final volume of “Hinterkind,” a title about the creatures of myth reclaiming the world from humans after an apocalyptic plague known as the Blight. We get […]
…it’ll just be coming up later than usual due to some technical and logistics issues. Expect another review tomorrow.
One could say that Chise Hatori has led an unlucky and unloved life. This would be before she was auctioned off for the tidy sum of five million pounds to a mage with an animal skull for a head named Elias Ainsworth. While this would seem like just the latest tragedy in a life that […]
Masamune Shirow is the Frank Miller of manga. That’s because it’s hard to overstate the contributions of both men to the medium of comics in their heydays, and the works they created are still being drawn upon for adaptations in other media. They also experienced a sharp decline in their standing within the industry after […]
Don’t let what’s said on the back cover fool you, this is not the end of Jonathan Hickman’s run. As I’ve said many times before on this blog, “Secret Wars” is the true finale and we’ll have to wait until November *crosses fingers* to see how that turns out. So if you’re thinking that this […]
After five volumes I’m starting to get a little fuzzy on the details of the main plot for the series. It’s supposed to be about how wandering ronin and surrogate father to Daigoro, Togo Shigekata, is delivering a message as the dying wish of a last man. Upon delivering it, all sorts of behind-the-scenes machinations […]
Six printings of the first issue. Sales that remain consistent (and even go up). Near-universal acclaim across the internet. These are the things that can be used to describe “Ms. Marvel,” one of the most successful new characters that has come out of Marvel in quite some time. With Carol Danvers now “Captain Marvel,” the […]
“Wounded Man” managed it for nine volumes. “High School of the Dead” gave us seven volumes that trended downward in quality before it just stopped. “Terra Formars” gave us one hilariously awful volume before improving just enough to be boring. “Tenjo Tenge” was… Well, that was mostly good and never less than “readable” for the […]