Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
An issue of “The Walking Dead” topped the sales charts in October, the first time it has done that this year. However, unlike the previous times issues of this title hit #1, it wasn’t due to an anniversary issue or mass of variant covers. No, this time it was all thanks to Loot Crate and […]
Anime News Network reports that “The Shinji Ikari Raising Project” will be ending with vol. 18 next year. (Man, where was this when I was looking for something interesting to use as a lead-in to yesterday’s post?) To which I can only say, “It’s about goddamn time!” While the series initially started off as a […]