Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve written about “The Unwritten” proper, so let’s fix that. After losing his friend/lover Lizzie Hexam in “The War of Words,” Tom Taylor finally gets a lead on where she wound up. Problem is that she’s now in Hades. Now getting there is the easy part for someone who can […]
It almost seemed like pure fantasy at first, but it’s actually happening. After working almost exclusively at Marvel all these years, John Romita Jr. is jumping ship to DC to illustrate “Superman.” The word is that the Distinguished Competition has been wanting to get the artist away from Marvel for a while now and has […]
This was a series that was too weird to live. Some people have argued that it should’ve been published through Vertigo, but it wouldn’t have felt entirely appropriate there. Strange as it was, “Dial H” is a series that’s steeped in the superhero mythos and it was entertaining as a trip through the strange back […]
There was one genuinely mind-blowing solicitation in this month’s offering. Yes, it was a manga title. No, it’s not the one you’re thinking about. However, it’s not the one that deserves above-the-line recognition here. The Sakai Project HC is a celebration of 30 years of Stan Sakai’s legendary “Usagi Yojimbo” from a host of the […]
The trouble with doing podcasts as off-the-cuff as I do is that after they’re done, something else I should’ve mentioned tends to come to mind. Usually it’s a minor thing that doesn’t bear addressing, but that’s not the case with Abe Sapien. A while back I wrote about how “B.P.R.D.” seemed to be setting the […]
After three volumes, and many hard-fought battles the crew of White Base finally makes it to the Federation’s South American base. There’s plenty more hardship to be had as key members of the supporting cast find their moment to shine… before being snuffed out. “Gundam” has been an engaging read up to now as it’s […]
Now this is more like it! The first volume of Makoto Yukimura’s viking epic contained over a hundred thrilling pages that set the stage for the story in dramatic fashion. They were then followed by a few hundred more of a flashback to earlier days in the lives of our protagonist and one of the […]
The second ImageCon, held earlier this month had some fantastic announcements coming out of it. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips signing a five-year exclusivity deal along with a new title “The Fade-Out,” Rick Remender and Scott Snyder launching a new title each while Nick Spencer launches three, Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham re-teaming for a […]
“Vaughan was last seen working on a revival of Swamp Thing over at Vertigo, which is tantamount to wearing a sign around your neck saying ‘I am not Alan Moore, please kick me’.” — Paul O’Brien, The X-Axis It’s been years since I first read that quote, but it sums up the general state of […]
Lots of changes this month in the solicitations. There are a couple prominent series like “Nightwing” and “Teen Titans” ending, low-selling ones like “Stormwatch” getting the axe, and new high-profile debuts like “Batman Eternal” and “Sinestro.” Save for “Batman,” there’s not a whole lot that interests me in the latest bout of culling and churning […]