Manga and Comic Reviews
After starting out as one of the “New 52’s” most distinctive titles, Jeff Lemire’s take on the adventures of Buddy Baker and his family cratered with the destructively unimaginative “Rotworld” crossover. It was an event that played out exactly as you’d think a storyline that took the “Age of Apocalypse” as its inspiration would and […]
For the last several years Dan Slott has been cranking out more than one issue of “Spider-Man” every month. It represented pretty much his entire comic output during that time. Now, as he winds down his run on “Amazing Spider-Man,” the writer has dialed back his prolificacy on that title to allow him to take […]
Only one more volume left. So what does mangaka Hiroaki Samura choose to do with this penultimate entry in his legendary series? Go balls-out with the action as he has three different battles unfold over the course of this volume. Even though the fighting is pretty much non-stop from beginning to end here, he still […]
Yeah, this is going to be the last volume of the series I buy. What started out as the most hilariously awful thing I’ve read in a long time actually got better and became less interesting in the second volume. Then something happened between the release of that volume and this latest one that stole […]
Normal service has been resumed in the life of Peter Parker. After six volumes of “Superior Spider-Man,” Peter’s mind is finally back in control of his body and the title character is back to being the fun-loving, wisecracking wall-crawler that we all know and love. More specifically, the title is back to reading like it […]
Yesterday, I talked about a comic that did an awful job of managing the transition between story arcs. When you’ve been working on one story for as long as “Girl Genius” has, there needs to be some time to step back, decompress, and take stock of things or else you wind up burning the audience […]
The good news: After six years and seven volumes, the “Mechanicsburg” arc of this series has finally wrapped up. Though utterly interminable in the length of its serialization, the arc was not without its moments of wild imagination and smashing humor. Now for the bad news: Nothing seems to have been accomplished with its end. […]
There’s a good piece over at “Comics Alliance” by Juliet Kahn about how Sam Wilson’s tenure as the new “Captain America” and Female Thor are essentially gimmicks that only represent the illusion of progress and will likely be reversed in two years or so. Go ahead and read it, her piece is very well thought […]
So I guess you can call “Gantz’s” return to being a title I actually look forward to a sustainable trend with this volume. I will admit that it doesn’t do this in as dramatic a fashion as I had hoped. More like, there are a lot of little moments here that either prove to be […]
Brian Azzarello has taken Wonder Woman on a unique journey over the course of his tenure as the writer of her ongoing series. Eschewing nearly all connections to the DC Universe at large, he’s embraced the character’s mythological side and given us a modern tale of the wrath and pettiness of the Greek gods pitted […]