Manga and Comic Reviews
Writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema first collaborated on “Star Wars: Twilight” well over a decade ago. It seems unlikely that either of them would’ve thought that they’d still be working together on “Star Wars”comics after all that time, or that their partnership would prove to be the longest-running and most creatively successful in […]
After saving New York from the new mind-controlling Red Skull, what’s next for the Avengers “Unity” squad? The answer involves the buildup for an epic storyline that draws a lot from writer Rick Remender’s excellent “The Dark Angel Saga” as well as one that makes the theme of racial tolerance a central part of its […]
Over a week ago, I expressed my thoughts regarding manga writer Eiji Otsuka’s presence at this year’s Anime Expo with the specific hope that this was set up by Dark Horse to sell more copies of his manga out here. It turns out that his presence was set up by the company and there was […]
Let me digress from tonight’s subject for a start: Podbean unveiled their “enhanced statistics” package last night. So if you’ve noticed that the “site visitor” tally is now replaced by a “plays” stat on the right side of the page, that’s the main enhancement they’ve unleashed. Instead of tracking both podcast hits and traffic, now […]
Back when the Penny Arcade Report was active I always enjoyed reading their articles about EVE Online. While I had some familiarity with this online space mining/combat game, I hadn’t realized that it had developed its own ecosystem with real-life economic implications and various collectives and factions staking claim to parts of space and going […]
After the current arc reached a climax with the fighting in Jaburo, mangaka Yoshikazu Yasuhiko takes a break to flash back and give us the backstory of the conflict between the Federation and Zeon, along with some of the key players on the latter side. This actually turns out to be a smart move as […]
It may seem crazy, at first glance, to take elements of “Peter Pan” and retell the story in a WWII setting. However, writer Kurtis Wiebe actually manages to pull it off incredibly well. The problem is that while he does a good job of selling the core idea, its execution is a little more problematic. […]
As someone who likes the “Knights of Sidonia” manga, I was planning on taking some time out from my *ahem* busy schedule of gaming and comics reading to check out the anime that’s being made out of it. Now, after the runaway success of the “Attack on Titan” anime last year, I was kinda hoping […]
That title should give you a pretty good idea as to what we’re in for with this volume. After several single-issue stories, the dinosaur who is also a doctor and as dumb as he is clever gets a miniseries of his own. As Robo’s most noteworthy (read: only significant) recurring antagonist, this would seem to […]
Hellboy’s roots may have been in WWII, but we haven’t seen a whole lot of stories in the Mignolaverse set during that time. “Sledgehammer 44” aims to correct that with it’s story of a Vril-powered armored suit — nicknamed Sledgehammer — fighting on the side of the Allies during the war. What’s it’s job? To […]