Manga and Comic Reviews
One of the most impressive creative turnarounds I’ve read in years continues with this volume. As the title implies, Tony Stark is currently in the process of losing everything dear to him. His friends. His status as an Avenger. His company. Even his role as Iron Man, and it’s all part of a dastardly plot […]
Have you ever read something and thought, “This isn’t bad, but it’s been done much better somewhere else?” That’s the experience I had while reading this collection of writer/artist Bob Fingerman’s otherwise entertainingly filthy saga of a New York couple struggling to find their place in the big city. If it wasn’t for the fact […]
The nuttiness continues in this volume as the gang races to complete not only Ogiue’s debut manga, but also her doujinshi for Comi-Fest. Then Ohno’s other American friend Angela (of the ginormous boobs) also makes a return appearance once the con begins in earnest and the direction of this “second season” becomes a bit more […]
“Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha & Omega” is essentially a single plot point stretched out into a five-issue miniseries. Even though Quentin “Kid Omega” Quire psychically intervened with Krakoa and saved the Jean Grey School from being destroyed, he still has it in for its headmaster Wolverine. So Quire uses his Omega-level psychic talents to […]
The first volume of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s “Batman” was easily one of the highlights of DC’s “New 52.” Sharply written and tightly plotted by Snyder with some very stylish and detailed art from Capullo, the story of Batman finding a new threat in a city he thought he knew from top to bottom […]
Rucka’s run on the title has focused on the descent of Rachel Cole-Alves from former marine and bride-to-be to willing participant in the title character’s neverending war on crime. Though it looked as if she was going to reconsider her current path in life at the end of the previous volume, she realizes that the […]
(The following contains spoilers for last Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” so if you haven’t seen it yet, AVERT YOUR EYES!) I was all ready to believe that The Governor had really turned on Merle, the man who does all of his dirty work, because it made for such a delicious surprise twist in […]
Sending a B-list character out with their own solo series without an A-list creative team has proven to be commercial suicide again and again over the past few years. Occasionally, you’ll get lucky and the team will click and we’ll have ourselves a new hit book that will go on for as long as the […]
This is a review of vol. 24 of “Blade of the Immortal.” The reason the title isn’t listed above is because I wanted to write, “The latest volume of ‘Blade of the Immortal’ is so goddamn good that you need to stop reading this now and go out and buy it!” (Which I’ll admit could […]
So the big news this week is Marvel-related, but borne out of Image. The announcement that “Spawn” supporting character Angela will be appearing in that formerly so-secret-they-had-to-get-Joe-Quesada-to-draw-it epilogue to “Age of Ultron” and subsequently decamping to “Guardians of the Galaxy” is more interesting than exciting. Let’s face it, we’re talking about a character whose commercial […]