Manga and Comic Reviews
Charles Soule has made a name for himself for being able to put out three-to-four superhero comics a month for Marvel and DC over the past few years. I’ve only read his work on ”Swamp Thing” and “She-Hulk,” which have been enjoyable though not entirely compelling reasons for the writer’s prolificacy. Now we have his […]
I picked this up fully expecting to enjoy the art more than the story. After all, Geof Darrow is one of those artists who draws EVERYTHING in his work. Every pebble on the ground, every drop of sweat from a body, every crease of a person’s skin — all of it! That kind of attention […]
I’ll give it this: “Original Sin” at least offered a very flexible setup for allowing other titles to tie into this particular event. Having characters suddenly remember forgotten memories works really well in the context of what is effectively “Retcon: The Event!” Mark Waid already got a decent story out of it with Kieron Gillen […]
After his latest face-off against Dr. Dinosaur (who didn’t actually have a savage sword) EVERYTHING CHANGED for Robo and his buddies at Tesladyne as they were hassled by Majestic 12. How do you follow up on something like that? By telling a story that stops the series’ momentum cold. While it was clear for the […]
In case the title of this post wasn’t expository enough for you, Anime News Network has reported that the crown jewel of Tokyopop’s manga line will be coming back into print. Mind you, that’s “crown jewel” as I see things. Over the course of five volumes in the U.S., Makoto Yukimura’s sci-fi series managed the […]
The saga of the Avengers’ horrible, no-good, very bad day comes to a close here as Nick Spencer wraps up his run in a tidy fashion with this volume. Looking back on things, it becomes clear that even though the book was pitched as the “global” Avengers book that picked up on some of Hickman’s […]
Unlike the last volume, “Indestructible Hulk vol. 4: Humanity Bomb” actually tells a coherent story. More remarkable is the fact that Mark Waid manages to tell an interesting story in spite of the deeply uninteresting “Inhumanity” setup he’s saddled with. With the terrigen mists transforming transforming random people throughout the country into Inhumans, Bruce Banner […]
While we’re on the subject of series that are marching towards their end, “Claymore” has reached its penultimate volume. Regrettably, as has been the case with the last couple of volumes, there’s more bland action than exciting plot revelations here. This series has always been “Berserk Lite,” but it nevertheless managed to conjure up an […]
I’m going to miss this series when it’s gone. That time is coming up soon as we’re now three-quarters of the way through its planned 60-issue run — the panel of Older Applebee telling Older Chu how much he hates him in the final issue is starting to feel tangible at this point. It’s because […]
500K+ orders for the first issue of “Secret Wars” in the direct market alone. It’s no “Star Wars,” but those are “Amazing Spider-Man #1” numbers from last year, and that had the benefit of whatever momentum the film brought to that launch. So it would appear that the Marvel Hype Machine has pulled off an […]