Manga and Comic Reviews
This volume represents the longest story the series has told to date. In fact, it’s so long that I didn’t realize at first that it actually started in the previous volume. Go figure. Anyway, Misaki is still on vacation at a hot springs resort in Hakone, trying her best to escape from the pressures and […]
It’s a new Heroic Age in the Marvel Universe and Tony Stark enters into it flat broke and missing his memory of nearly everything that’s happened since he was upgraded with Extremis. So what’s a former billionaire playboy to do now? Apparently the answer is to take the technology that the Iron Man is built […]
Yes, it’s still incredibly awesome. I’m not going to bore you with the details since you’re all well aware that I drank the Kool-Aid for this series quite some time ago. Instead, some observations: If you told be back when I was reading, say, vol. 3 that twenty volumes later that the Itto-Ryu’s ambitions would […]
Brendon Connelly had a chance to speak to Warren Ellis in connection with the upcoming DVD release of “Red” over at Bleeding Cool. It’s a short interview, but interesting to read for Ellis’ perspective on the movie and its potential sequel. More interesting to me was what he said about his involvement with Marvel’s anime […]
Twin brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon are phenomenal artists. Anyone who has seen their work in “The Umbrella Academy,” “Sugarshock,” “Casanova,” and “B.P.R.D. 1947” should know that they excel in realizing the strangest of worlds while giving the characters that grounds them, and the reader, in the work. Before this, I had never read […]
You knew this was coming. With an inevitability matched only by death and taxes, the next step of any major A-list superhero who “dies” is their return. Though Bruce Wayne’s apparent demise was meant to be one of the climactic parts of writer Grant Morrison’s “Final Crisis,” I doubt that any fanboy who read that […]
This volume of “Jack of Fables” finds the series in a position remarkably similar to what “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” was at the same point in its run (believe it or not). Both series had/have concluded the story they began telling in the first volume and used/are now using the time they […]
The podcast is in the entry below, but 24 hours after recording it I’ve had some second thoughts about how I wrapped it up. While my overall opinion still stands, I feel that I came down too hard on the series at the end. The thing is that I read through 15-odd volumes of the […]
We’re entering the home stretch here as the series is set to conclude with vol. 6 in May. In exploring this strange new world, Zoichi is taken to the village of the “people” he met at the end of the previous volume. They’re such a peaceful and friendly people that it should surprise no one […]
What I like most about this series is the way it deviates from your expectations. Vol. 1 introduced us to our nameless “Killer” and set him up as someone who was highly competent at his job, but starting to crack under the strain of it all. You’d think that vol. 2 would continue to show […]