Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
With the series’ focus narrowed to showing what makes great Shonen Jump manga, it narrows the focus further still as aspiring creators Mashiro and Takagi now have to determine what kind of manga will work well in Jump. Smartly, they realize that pirates, ninja, and shinigami have already been taken, so they have to come […]
A friend of mine has been loaning me the entire Geoff Johns run on “JSA,” which has been a generally enjoyable read despite how immersed in DC continuity it is. I’m willing to bet that most people will say that the arc of villain-teammate-dictator that Black Adam, Captain Marvel’s Egyptian-themed nemesis, goes through over the […]
It’s inevitable that after thirteen volumes detailing the exploits of Osamu Tezuka’s maverick medical maestro you’d get the feeling that you’ve seen everything this series has to offer. After all, virtually each story features the doctor addressing some unusual medical condition which turns into a morality or cautionary tale in the execution. The reason I’ve […]
After writer/artist Eric Powell took his signature series to the next level, successfully balancing his dramatic instincts with his deranged sense of humor, in the “Return of Labrazio” arc that spanned vols. 7-9 we finally get the next collection. While I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline, I was a little put out by the fact that […]
There were a lot of little things I liked about this latest Vertigo Crime graphic novel from writer Andy Diggle and artist Victor Ibanez. As the writer of “The Losers,” Diggle knows how to write an effective action comic, and you can see his skill in the way that the book opens, the amusing details […]
One thing I didn’t mention in my review of vol. 3 was that vols. 3-5 were a late Christmas gift from some good friends of mine. I’d been planning on picking them up at some point in the future because while I’ve liked the series, the price for “four issues and a preview of Mark […]
After I finished reading through this, I came to realize that I was probably being more than a little foolish in hoping that this volume would flesh out the events of “Siege” in a satisfying manner. There’s really only one thing that’s touched upon here that wasn’t really explained in the crossover, and that’s the […]
The anime series that was adapted from this manga was trash of the highest caliber. A violent and gory romp about highschool kids trying to survive against the hordes of the living dead, it featured lots of fanservice in the form of well-rendered guns and gunplay, scenes of its female cast jiggling away in various […]
I didn’t review the first volume of this series because I was planning on saving it for a potential podcast about taking established characters and transplanting them into all-new settings. (See also: DC’s Elseworlds comics.) That hasn’t happened yet, but I might get around to it later this year. Anyway, the first volume of “Campus […]