Manga and Comic Reviews
The first volume of “Wonder Woman” by writer Brian Azzarello and artists Cliff Chiang and Tony Akins was one of the best surprises of the “New 52.” Azzarello is a writer who rarely aims to give readers what they want and usually shoots for trying to give us something that we didn’t know we needed. […]
Issue #36 of “Prophet” comes out this month. While it wasn’t one of my “ten best” of last year, it was a title that would’ve been on there had the list gone to twenty. The first volume was just too bizarre, weird and unique to not be worthy of some notice. However, come this month […]
Shigeru Mizuki may be one of Japan’s best-known and loved mangaka, but prior to this title’s publication in April 2011, none of his work had ever been translated into English. Though his most famous series, “Ge ge ge no Kitaro,” is an enduringly popular kid’s series that deals with the many denizens of Japanese folklore, […]
The upcoming “Age of Ultron” event will be serialized at a blistering pace even by Marvel’s current standards. April will be its second month and if everything goes as planned we’ll be up to issue six by the end of it. That being said, if everything does go as planned, we’ll have been treated to […]
Though it pains me to say it, the first volume of this series was somewhat of a letdown. After Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips consistently hit it out of the park with “Sleeper,” “Criminal,” and “Incognito,” I was expecting “Fatale” to do just the same. Unfortunately, the story, the setting and the characters all felt […]
According to Rich Johnston, pre-orders for the “Hyrule Historia” currently stand at 250,000. It’s all the more impressive when you consider that this is a $35 hardcover, but I’m curious as to why he’s reporting on this. Sure it has a “Skyward Sword” comic inside, but it’s not really comics news, nor the first such […]
A good part of the fun of this series comes from the fact that while reading it, you really feel that writer Geoff Johns has a plan for all this. Granted, I’m sure that there have been plenty of changes and revisions to it ever since he successfully brought Hal Jordan back as the title […]
If the creative teams for “Constantine” and “Birds of Prey” look a little different from last month, it’s because they’ve been retroactively changed since then. Robert Venditti is off the former, replaced by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes plotting it with Fawkes scripting, and Jim Zubkavitch is off the latter, with Christy Marx now onboard. […]
Another thing that occurred while reading the previous topic was, “How did this make it by Kodansha’s editorial staff?” Granted, I could very well be in the minority when it comes to appreciating “Attack on Titan’s” virtues but those two volumes definitely left me with the feeling that it could’ve been greatly improved had it […]
Outside of the fact that they’re continuing to publish “Battle Angel Alita: Last Order” and the “second season” of “Genshiken” Kodansha’s line of manga hasn’t really impressed me that much. That’s mainly because a lot of it does seem skewed towards a younger audience, which is understandable since those titles tend to be the most […]