Manga and Comic Reviews
First off, apologies are in order. When writer Greg Rucka left this series after five issues, I assumed the usual bit of behind-the-scenes drama that involved him having another falling out with Marvel. It was surprising enough to see Rucka back at the company after he gave an interview detailing how bitter he was with […]
If you thought Cap was due for a break after Rick Remender stranded him for two volumes in the wilds of Dimension Z, then you thought wrong. Not only does the title character have to deal with all of the traumatic events of the decade he was stranded there, but Nuke — the crazed super-soldier […]
“Thor: The Dark World” had its virtues, but its plot certain wasn’t amongst them. A bunch of incoherent gibberish about the evil plans of the Dark Elves that didn’t give Christopher Eccleston anything to work with as their leader, Malekith, it actively worked against my enjoyment of the film. As these things go, Malekith was […]
Leave it to Japan to find a way to combine the alien invasion and inspirational teacher genres. After a multi-tentacled alien demonstrates his power by destroying a huge chunk of the moon and promises to destroy the Earth in one year, he makes a proposal to the leaders of the world. He’ll become a teacher […]
For all of the fantastic stylistic tricks and uses of the form that creator Matt Kindt employs with this volume, its content can be summed up rather succinctly. That said, this is the volume where everything goes wrong for our protagonists. Now working with Harry Lyme and his crew again, as well as calling the […]
The thinking here is that whatever plans Cornell had for Wolverine’s death were subject to a fair degree of re-writing after the “Death of Wolverine” miniseries was announced. It was speculated that after Marvel offered retailers a special incentive for the final issue of his current ongoing series, promising a big event in the process, […]
First it was “Young Avengers.” Then came the announcement of this title. At first, all those titles meant to me was that we were going to have to wait that much longer for the promised third volume of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s “Phonogram.” Yet, “Young Avengers” turned out to be a very clever and […]
We’re in the home stretch now. “Claymore” ended its magazine serialization back in October and the final, twenty-seventh, volume came out earlier this month in Japan. That’s actually quite reassuring as things have been steadily building towards a climax over the past few volumes, so it’s likely things will be going out on a high […]
I’m going to start things off on a down note: Based on sales of the single issues, it would appear that the forthcoming third volume of this title is going to be its last one. That’s a shame because writer Ian Edginton and artist Francisco Trifogli’s story about how creatures of fantasy and myth came […]
Back when I reviewed Kon’s “Tropic of the Sea,” I made the mistake of going into the manga expecting it to be the last great work of a genius who was taken from us too soon. (I was also mistaken about its length — this is his longest manga work.) As it turns out, my […]