Manga and Comic Reviews
Ever since we started getting Kon’s manga over here, I’ve been waiting to read the one which would live up to the genius of his films. “Tropic of the Sea” was an early work which showed some promise, but was largely unremarkable. “Opus” felt like it would’ve made for a great movie, but along with […]
Between the first volume of this and “The Fade Out,” Ed Brubaker has made his way back into my good graces after his lacklustre end years at Marvel and the never-quite-as-good-as-it-should-have-been “Fatale.” That’s still the case in this second volume of the adventures of spy-on-the-run Velvet Templeton, even though there’s a plot twist towards the […]
This series has been on the cusp of being really good for a while now. Holding it back has been the supernatural mystery of the revivers and some storytelling that doesn’t surprise as often as it should given the subject matter. With vol. 5, writer Tim Seely makes some big strides towards addressing these issues. […]
Jonathan Hickman’s penchant for planning out his storylines is well known. I mention this now because this is the first time I felt that he may have bitten off a little more than he can chew. This would normally be a really bad thing, except that there are plenty of positives to make this volume […]
Hey, so it turns out that I was mistaken and Earl Tubb, protagonist of the previous volume, really was beaten to death in the street by Coach Euless Boss. That does make him seem more threatening, but Jason Aaron wants you to feel something different for this particular bastard here: sympathy. “Gridiron” is all about […]
There are two significant character deaths in this volume. One of them involves someone who has been relatively sympathetic throughout most of his tenure in this series. His turn towards hatred in the last few volumes has actually been one of the more believable character developments of this final arc of “Gantz” as his reasons […]
For all the noise I made about Si Spurrier’s “X-Men: Legacy” run being likely to crash and burn within a year, it turns out that it was his take on “X-Force” which turned out to be commerically disappointing. After a defining run from Rick Remender and a “not bad, but not particularly great” effort from […]
“Superman: Earth One” is a lost cause for me at this point as I still feel no inclination to check out the third volume which arrived earlier this year. Its counterpart, however, is a different story. “Batman: Earth One” arrived on the heels of “The Dark Knight Rises” and gave us another look at the […]
The good news, for anyone who decided to stick around after the first volume’s rocky and dated start, is that things are getting better. It takes a while for Jonathan Joestar and Dio to finish their business from the previous volume, in the form of an epic battle in the former’s mansion — while it’s […]
This latest volume contains a lot of good stuff: Carl beating down two bastards with good reason, more information about the Whispered and what their deal is, Carl potentially finding love, an assassination plan gone awry, Carl doing something potentially very stupid for said love, and Jesus Saving. All of this is handled with Robert […]