Manga and Comic Reviews
The first volume was a quality mix of worldbuilding, futuristic police procedural, and characterization that was undermined in the end by a climax that relied on the tired “talking killer” trope. For better and worse, you get more of the same here when detectives Ristovych and Dietrich take on the case of who killed star […]
Billed as the start of “The Apocalypse: Year Two,” this latest volume of Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s thoroughly entertaining sci-fi western shows us that the son of Death and PRA leader Xiaolian is going to be a major factor in this next leg of the story. He was raised with the name Babalon to […]
The first volume of this series was great fun and the second one continues the trend. With the focus firmly established on the title character and his partner, Dawn Greenwood, experiencing the many wonders the cosmos has to offer, writer Dan Slott has a simple but effective formula to tell stories regarding this cosmically intrepid […]
Now there are two “Evangelion” manga from Dark Horse that are worth your time! Tony Takezaki provided several of the more memorable contributions to that other manga, the “Evangelion Comic Tribute,” as he asked the big questions like “How would Shinji really respond to an aquarium of naked Rei Ayanami clones?” You can expect more […]
It had apparently been rumored for a while, but the return of Tokyopop was made official at their panel at Anime Expo. Their plan is to publish “hidden gems” from smaller publishers that have yet to be snapped up by companies that release manga in the U.S. In addition, they’re also planning to put out […]
It wasn’t expected to be a mini-phenomenon which got DC Comics to broaden its scope in what titles it sold to reach a new audience, but that’s what this latest revamp of “Batgirl” by writer/breakdown artist Cameron Stewart, co-writer Brenden Fletcher, and artist Babs Tarr did. What I really don’t know is why they decided […]
The delicate balance of terror in this series continues to be maintained through this volume. After it was revealed in vol. 3 that the Nazis have Uber spies with their own special abilities, the issue of ferreting out the one in Bletchley Park becomes an issue here. Not the key issue as writer Kieron Gillen […]
I guess I stuck to my guns through sheer force of inertia. Yeah, I would’ve bought this volume in hardcover if I had found it on sale, but that didn’t happen. So nearly a year after I read the previous volume, the final act of Rick Remender’s epic storyline finally arrived at my door. Was […]
There’s no denying that Marvel has a lot of interesting creative teams lined up for their post-”Secret Wars” relaunch: Bendis/Marquez on “Invincible Iron Man,” Soule/Garney on “Daredevil,” Lemire/Ramos on “Extraordinary X-Men.” I could go on, but what gets me about this whole event is how many of these titles are simply relaunches of ones that […]
I was hoping that the assassination duel between Ms. Jelavitch and her teacher was going to have the end result of making her into a worthwhile character. I was wrong. If anyone comes out of this looking better, it’s Karasuma. Not only does he take down the senior assassin, his capitulation to his fellow teacher […]