Manga and Comic Reviews
It would have been ideal for me to do this column last week when the big “Saga”/Comixology/Apple controversy was going. In case you missed it, people were up in arms over Apple apparently banning “Saga” #12 from sale on iOS due to a miniscule amount of gay sex (really, finding it was like playing “Where’s […]
Word on the street is that after decades of legal wrangling and acrimony, “Marvelman” may finally be coming back into print. Mark Buckingham, who drew the parts of Neil Gaiman’s stories with the character that saw print, appears to be optimistic about it too so it might be that Marvel has finally gotten all of […]
Not really a WWII story per se, but the story of one German intelligence operative turning on his masters for his own personal gain. “Broken Wings” is a translation of a European graphic novel from a writer, Herik Hanna, that I’ve never heard of and an artist, Trevor Hairsine, who I’m quite familiar with due […]
Right now, Sean Murphy is one of the most compelling artists in the industry no matter what kind of script he’s working from. When he’s given a good one, such as Grant Morrison’s “Joe the Barbarian” or Jason Aaron’s two-part “Hellblazer” story, it becomes a joy to pour over the detail he invests in each […]
The big news from Dark Horse out of Wondercon a couple weeks ago was that they have an interesting new “Star Wars” project coming out later this year. Titled, “The Star Wars” it’s an adaptation of one of George Lucas’ earliest drafts of the original script for his immortal space opera. To give you an […]
If nothing else, writer Gerry Duggan and artist Phil Noto have to be commended for having the ingenuity to think that “The Odyssey” could be reinvented as a near-future take on the War on Terror and one soldier’s efforts to get home. This solder has no name, save “Captain” and “father,” but we’re introduced to […]
I wrote about how I wasn’t expecting much from the new creative teams for the “Green Lantern” family of titles last month, and apparently DC has tried to rectify that by adding DRAMA to the equation. Josh Fialkov, slated to write both “Green Lantern Corps” and “Red Lanterns” walked off both titles after he said […]
I believe that my love of all things Tezuka is well-documented on this site, but I’ve always found his mature late-era works to be generally more entertaining than his early kiddie-skewing ones. Here, we have a late-era work that skews towards the kiddie side of the spectrum and is less interesting as a result. “Unico” […]
After avoiding it for much of his time in the industry, Brian Wood has certainly taken on a lot of work-for-hire projects recently. He’s been doing work on various “X-Men” titles for Marvel with a new “adjectiveless” title to start next month, and launching new takes on “Conan” and “Star Wars” for Dark Horse. It’s […]
Savor this volume folks, because it’ll be the last one we see for at least a year as Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque pursue other projects at DC and work to get some issues in the can before the series returns. Yes, I’d have preferred it if Snyder had kept this title on the front […]