Manga and Comic Reviews
When I talked about it on the podcast a while back, I made no bones about how I was disappointed with “The Battle of Jericho Hill.” Ostensibly a conclusion to Marvel’s series of “Dark Tower” mini-series, it failed to make the title conflict feel like the major event that it was referenced as in Stephen […]
With this, the story that was started in “World’s Most Wanted” and the character arc that really began in “Civil War,” draws to a close. Tony Stark is a vegetable, having successfully wiped his mind free of information that could’ve been seized by Norman Osborne, and now his friends and comrades have to decide if […]
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I read a lot of the scanlations for “Gantz” prior to picking up Dark Horse’s English release of the series. I had read up to vol. 14 around four or five years ago before stopping for reasons that I can’t remember. Now that vol. 15 is finally […]
With the next volume currently on order from Amazon, I thought I’d dust this off and give it another read-through. It got lost in the review shuffle after San Diego and I always meant to get around to it since I remembered liking it after going through it a few months back. Now that I’ve […]
I enjoyed this latest volume of “Claymore” for reasons which I’ll elaborate on in the next paragraph. The thing is that there were so many little details that I’d forgotten in the long wait between volumes (i.e.: What was the deal with Rafaela and Luciela? Why was Miria hanging out with Galatea?) that it has […]
Longtime readers will be glad to know that the title character is actually featured in more than a few panels this volume. Though she’s not back “front and center” Alita still plays a pivotal role as creator Yukito Kishiro begins the build-up towards the Z.O.T. finals. That said, people shouldn’t be surprised that most of […]
It was revealed in Newtype (via Anime News Network) that the forthcoming “Berserk” anime project is going to be a series of movies that will theoretically adapt the entirety of the manga. I speculated on the thought of a new “Berserk” anime a few months back and I find the news to be… acceptable. It’s […]
So we’ve seen what the Plutonian was like before he turned bad, the circumstances that led up to it, and the incident that pushed him past the point of no return. The question for this third volume of writer Mark Waid and artist Peter Krause’s “Irredeemable” is “Where do we go from here?” Fortunately Waid […]
Robert Kirkman is one of the few writers to have lighting strike twice when it comes to finding success with his creator-owned books. I don’t think I need to say anything more about the success of “The Walking Dead,” and “Invincible” is still going strong at 75 issues and thirteen collections so far. Not one […]
As promised, and to wrap up the year, my thoughts on vol. 2 of “Hetalia:” If you liked the first one, you’ll like this too. Seriously. There’s really not much else to say about this. It doesn’t feel as unfocused as the first volume, but there’s still no real narrative tying everything together. So you […]