Manga and Comic Reviews
Marvel doesn’t do a whole lot of original graphic novels. Their last one was the (quite good) “Halo” one from several years back, and I imagine that was down to the licensing directives of Microsoft and Bungie more than anything else. However, the company constantly gets its ass handed to it each year when the […]
Though Dark Horse’s tenure with the “Star Wars” license kicked off with probably the most significant comic-based story in the franchise, “Dark Empire,” they’ve since spent a lot of time exploring new characters, scenarios and timelines. The end result has produced a lot of worthy entertainment, particularly between two “Johns” — Ostrander and Jackson Miller […]
The good news is that this volume continues to keep the title’s momentum going. We get a decisive end to the conflict between the Claymores and the Organization here with some nice surprises. Things continue immediately on to the next arc where we get a change to the status quo of the Claire/Priscilla/Unholy Abomination of […]
Hickman’s record with me has been rock-solid, and his creator-owned titles have been a cut above his superhero work so picking this up was, once again, “a no-brainer.” This is in spite of the fact that “East of West” represents a bit of a departure for the writer as he’s addressing a very specific American […]
Given that Vertical has been expanding into shojo manga over the past year, I initially thought that this was another entry in that vein. It’s a romance story, there’s a whole lot of melodrama in the execution and the art initially comes off as very shojo-esque in its panel arrangement and design. Then in chapter […]
Apparently Jason Aaron felt the need after having the students and staff of the Jean Grey School take on FRANKENSTEIN’S MURDER CIRCUS to dial things back a bit. So this volume has Wolverine taking certain trouble members of the school on a field trip… to the Savage Land! Being the teacher he is, Idie, Quentin […]
New volumes of this series are an annual event and always one worth celebrating. Take this volume for instance, which covers over a decade of time yet doesn’t feel rushed at all. It also has an intriguing cliffhanger to pick up on. After reforming the shogunate and filling its coffers again, Yoshimune was riding high […]
The thought of this series taking another detour from the story of Jedi Dass Jennir and the crew of the Uhumele didn’t really strike me as a promising start for this story. Such detours haven’t worked out all that well for “B.P.R.D.” after all. Yet the more I read into this volume, the focus on […]
Otherwise known as, “The Series That’s Holding Up the Third Volume of ‘Phonogram.’” That being said, this is still a new work from one of comics’ most reliably entertaining and inventive teams, Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie. They knocked it out of the park on the first two volumes of “Phonogram,” the the issues of […]
Okay, after this one I’m thinking that they can give these “dated” flashback miniseries a rest. The two previous ones annoyed me (yes, even the one with art from Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon) because they felt like diversions that were keeping us from the more interesting main plot of the series. I was more […]