Manga and Comic Reviews
The reason you don’t see much shoujo manga featured on this site is mainly because I’m a guy. Shocking, I know. I do have a friend who was a fiend for the stuff and I could browse through her library and check out all the stuff that looked interesting. I wouldn’t have read titles like […]
Here is a miniseries that very much wants to be like one of those movies with a sprawling cast of characters whose lives start to interconnect over the course of its running time. It’s the death of a woman that gets the plot in motion after she falls to her death from a building onto […]
In the pantheon of late comics, “Nonplayer” is a special case. There have been many series where there was a big fuss about the first issue, and then disappeared completely after delays destroyed its moment and/or people realized that what they had bought was total crap. (This happened most often with a lot of Image […]
His runs on “X-Men: Legacy” and “X-Force” aren’t writer Si Spurrier’s only excursions into the oddball fringe of the X-Men franchise. This miniseries pre-dates both of them and it has Spurrier indulging his love of outlandish superhero sci-fi concepts to the hilt. It involves the title group, the X-Men’s “science team,” made up of Dr. […]
With “Convergence” behind them in these solicitations, the company (presumably safely ensconced in its new Burbank headquarters) moves on to the business of the mini-relaunch of its superhero universe. Though DC is leaving the “New 52” branding behind, as they haven’t published 52 monthly comics for a while now, the continuity of that relaunch will […]
A special above-the-board mention for this round of solicitations goes to “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Edition: Book One.” While “Eden: It’s An Endless World!” is still — and will always be until the final volume is published — the Dark Horse manga that I most want to see completed, this is another series […]
I was keeping my expectations low for this, and that turned out to be a good thing. Much as I liked the “Stardust Crusaders” arc of this manga, it represented mangaka Hirohiko Araki settling into a solid groove in both art and writing after finding out what works and what didn’t in those earlier volumes. […]
Now this is more like it. Judging by the reviews and word-of-mouth online, I was one of the only people who didn’t think that “Fatale” was another stunning addition to the existing canon of works from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. It was a solidly constructed supernatural tale, but the stories it told never grabbed […]
Jon and Suzie have a problem. Contrary to what the back cover of this volume says, it doesn’t involve their orgasmic time-stopping abilities. No, their problem is that they’re the stars of a winning comedy/romance/fantasy series that’s being dragged down by an actively unlikeable antagonist. The kind of villain who it’s impossible to have sympathy […]
When I talked about how I hoped that “Trees” represented a return to form for Warren Ellis, I was selling him short in that regard. As I was reminded while reading the first volume of that series, there are a lot of things I like about his comics even if he tends to play up […]