Manga and Comic Reviews
Reading this volume makes me wish that Nick Spencer would take some time and read through all of Naoki Urasawa’s “20th Century Boys.” Though both of their series are very different in style and tone, at their cores they deal with mysteries that slowly unfold over a long period of time. What gives Urasawa’s series […]
Everyone who has read my reviews of this series so far should know by know that while I enjoy it a great deal, there’s always been one thing holding it back. The “romance” between Moritaka and his “girlfriend” Miho; or rather, the complete lack thereof due to their idiot promise at the start of the […]
Grant Morrison got the chance to rebuild Superman from the ground up in the first volume to entertaining, if not spectacular, results. In the second, he digs deeper into the Man of Steel’s status quo and we get a story that takes a look at what happens when he feels that Clark Kent’s identity is […]
When we last left our protagonists, THEY WERE PRETTY MUCH FUCKED! Thrust into Italy along with several other Gantz teams right into a mission gone horribly, horribly wrong with the aliens in question slaughtering everyone. That continues straight into this volume as Kei, Kato, and the rest of the crew try to handle the chaos […]
“Mobile Suit Gundam” is one of the oldest, most influential and prolific mecha franchises in Japan. You may already know that, but it bears re-stating because this series has come a very long, strange way from the original series that this manga is an adaptation of. Originally a somewhat grounded look at space warfare with […]
Things quickly escalate from bad to, “Oh god! Oh god! We’re going to die!” as the reanimated Claymores each awaken in turn to become new Abyssal Ones. Though this would seem to be the end of Miria’s crusade against the Organization, two of them are focused on hashing out their. The other… well, she wants […]
There’s no more land on Earth to discover. Short of a major undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption forming a new island somewhere, every square inch is accounted for and spoken for. But what if new land was somehow created? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a real thing and writer Joe Harris has taken it […]
Spoilers be damned! Any story that involves Captain America getting his ass handed to him by Dennis “D-Man” Dunphy is automatically in the running for “worst story of the year” around here. I don’t care how tragic his situation is, the character is so terminally lame that there’s no benefit for using him the way […]
The last time “Uncanny X-Force” did a story that spanned two collected volumes, it was “The Dark Angel Saga.” That was the rare superhero epic that was as good as its hype, so the “Final Execution” storyline has a lot to live up to in that regard along with the fact that it represents writer […]
I’ll admit that I didn’t have high expectations for this series when I started reading it. Even though it did have a key member of the anime’s staff, character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, this was still going to be the same “Neon Genesis Evangelion” that I know from the TV series. On one hand, that’s still […]