Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s a simple premise: Seki goofs off in elaborate ways in class while the girl who sits next to him, Yokoi, reacts to his actions. One would think that such a setup wouldn’t be enough to sustain an entire volume, but mangaka Takuma Morishige proved in the first volume that it had real legs in […]
This is the volume that made me miss the talking chainsaw. It was a minor detail from the initial volume, collecting the self-published issues of “The Goon” before creator Eric Powell brought it to Dark Horse. This was a thing that could be described as crazy, weird, and at odds with everything else in the […]
I may bitch about the abysmal shipping schedule for “Powers,” but it’s still a series which shows that Bendis and Oeming do great work together. It just takes them a lot longer to do it these days (and the link I provided being a rare exception to the rule). One of the reasons for that […]
It’s been a while since I started reading a new Shonen Jump title, but I’d forgotten about how most of them have a “getting acquainted” period for the first few volumes. As weekly titles, Jump series can take a while to hit their stride as they introduce their cast and flesh out their worlds. The […]
This is the final volume in the “Nemo” trilogy of graphic novellas spun off from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”. It’s the least of the three, but not because of the story that’s being told. Taking place in 1975, Janni Nemo is now a very old woman looking to settle […]
Call it a twenty-issue victory lap. After Peter David managed a 100-plus issue run on the latest incarnation of “X-Factor,” he leapt right into the next one with a substantially different cast and setup. It’s been fun, assuming you’re a fan of David’s style, but nothing all that special. You get the feeling that after […]
You know, I would’ve liked to have read a series about a cold-blooded killer with otherworldly powers uniting others of his kind to fight against a social order that would otherwise exploit them to the fullest extent. That’s the kind of series “Ajin” felt like during its first few volumes as Sato/Hat tried to get […]
Now this is more like it. I threw around a lot of comparisons to Dan Slott’s “She-Hulk” run in my previous review, but the work of Charles Soule and Javier Pulido does more to set itself apart in this volume. Things kick off with a fun superhero team-up as She-Hulk and Hellcat work together with […]
Adam Warren has been publishing assorted one-offs relating to his bondage-prone, self-esteem challenged superheroine over the years. Not only do they serve as a stopgap for providing Emp-related content in the years that we’re not graced with a new volume, but we also get to see his world and characters interpreted by a series of […]
Right now the plan is to catch “Age of Ultron” on Sunday with John and at least one other friend. So no real thoughts on the movie yet. However, its 75% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes tells me that I should have a good time if I keep my expectations tempered. Maybe I’ll have something […]