Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s not that Garth Ennis is the only writer out there who tells war stories, just that he’s the one who is best at it. That’s a feeling which is regrettably confirmed in this collection of a European graphic novel series from Romain Hugault and Yann — the artist and writer, respectively. “The Grand Duke” […]
If you were expecting things to continue on much as they did in the first volume, then you’ll likely be satisfied by this second volume about the love-and-work-lives of gay couple Shiro and Kenji and the food they eat. This also means that the title’s flaws — its predictability, the way the momentum grinds to […]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve still been operating under the assumption that everything in the DC Universe prior to “Flashpoint” and the “New 52” still happened. The company’s big crossover event did a terrible job of applying any kind of “closure” to the previous incarnation of their universe and the way most titles […]
This volume gives us five of the “Liberty” comics anthologies that the Comic Book Legal Defense fund has been publishing annually in a nice hardcover package. There’s a stunning array of talented creators involved with the stories inside this volume and I’m willing to bet that one of yours contributed something here. I got my […]
“Sandman” and “Preacher” are two of my all-time favorite comics and they both employ very different approaches to storytelling. The former is a literate foray into the supernatural and otherworldly that effectively creates its own world with constant experimental and genre-defying approaches to the stories it tells. As for the latter, it’s a far more […]
This volume collects one full arc, “Godkiller,” and the start of the title story. When I heard that this was how Marvel was going to package things, I found it a bit odd. After all, how compatible is a story that deals with the fallout from “Avengers vs. X-Men” going to be with one that […]
Now I know I expressed some concern about the upcoming finale of this series in my thoughts about the upcoming volume. After reading this one, I’m happy to report that they’ve been effectively dispelled. Things start off with an effective epilogue to Abayama’s battle in the previous volume as we find out about the time […]
(Now that I’m back from Fanime and no longer posting these through my phone, I’ve gone back and re-done the formatting for the previous four posts. For Comic-Con, I’ll just schedule these through the site itself — which is what I should’ve done here.) So it seems that Image’s success has bred competition. BOOM! Studios […]
There has been a lot of interesting information coming out of the Diamond Retailer Summit being held in Las Vegas this past week. Probably the most interesting bit (don’t worry about spoilers, they’re flagged at the bottom of the page) is the fact that Marvel is successfully teasing the fact that they might finally reboot […]
It seems that it’s time for one of DC’s periodic culls of its ongoing titles. With this latest batch of solicitations, the company announced that “All-Star Western,” “Superboy,” “Birds of Prey,” “Batwing,” “Trinity of Sin: Phantom Stranger,” and “Trinity of Sin: Pandora” will all be wrapping up in August. If you’re guessing by the fact […]