Manga and Comic Reviews
It turns out that Image will be doing away with retailer-exclusive variants for single issues of their comics. Apparently they don’t do much for a title’s long-term health and only serve to feed the speculator market. Instead, they’ll be offering retailer-exclusive trade paperback editions instead. This may seem like it’d be more up my alley, […]
So, “Age of Ultron:” Thoroughly entertaining and a worthy sequel to “Avengers.” No, the story itself and the title villain’s scheme weren’t all that impressive, but the film was filled with plenty of entertaining details and situations to compensate. The featured-in-previews scene where everyone had a go at picking up Thor’s hammer played great on […]
We’re being told that “The Impossible Will Happen” in the issues of “Hellboy in Hell,” “B.P.R.D.” and “Abe Sapien” advertised in these solicitations. I, for one, believe this particular strain of hype. Mainly because we’re getting a new issue of “Hellboy in Hell” here, and the fact that it’s coming out sounds like the impossible […]
Is it a good thing when the end of an arc makes you go, “About damn time!” That’s the conundrum I faced when I got to the end of this volume and Musashi finally set out on his way to Kokura Castle, a confrontation with rival Sasaki Kojiro, and (presumably) the end of the series. […]
Yeah, I’m not as impressed this time around. Most of the sex-themed humor has lost its appeal with a couple deeply misguided attempts to mine rape (implied and attempted) for humor early on. The narrative is also bogged down in countless circular arguments regarding whether or not what Maria is doing is good that come […]
Dark Horse announced some new manga licenses at their Anime Central panel over the weekend. They included “Giganto Maxia” by Kentaro Miura of “Berserk” fame, a license rescue of “RG Veda” by Clamp (previously published by Tokyopop), and a “Danganronpa” manga based on the anime which was based on the videogame. So far we’re well […]
Jason Aaron and Ron Garney have given us a lot of good stories together at Marvel over the years. Most of them involving Wolverine. For a writer and artist who like working together so much, it was only a matter of time before they decided to work on something creator-owned to show what they could […]
WonderCon? Yeah, it was over a month ago now and I’m still working on the last few volumes of “Appleseed” that I picked up there. This has been going on for about a week now. Long story short: My opinion of Masamune Shirow’s pre-”Ghost in the Shell” cyberpunk series hasn’t improved much over the years. […]
When does Remender’s penchant for breaking his protagonists down work best in a story? That would be when the protagonist in question is getting ready to be replaced. So even though Steve Rogers feels like a tired man out of time who is also one step behind the bad guys in his fight against the […]
It’s the crossover we never knew we needed! That’s what I’d like to be able to tell everyone about this long-awaited team up between the legendary barbarian and the cheese-dip wanderer. While it’s great to have more Groo comics — and see his creator, Sergio Aragones, back in action — after a lengthy hiatus, this […]