Manga and Comic Reviews
For future rundowns of my ten favorite comics in a given year, I think I’ll have to set aside one slot solely to determine which was the better Robert Kirkman title of the year: “Invincible” or “The Walking Dead.” While vol. 11 of “The Walking Dead” did a great job of smacking genre conventions upside […]
When I brought in this volume to read at work earlier this week, I told one of my friends that unless it was really good it was going to be the last one I buy. He said “okay” but thought that my decision was a little strange after noting that I had spent in the […]
That’s a particularly apt subtitle, and one that will surely annoy longtime readers of this series, as the title character is (once again) absent for the majority of the volume. This time we’re treated to the battle between Zekka and Toji’s “Space Karate” team against the seeded Venusian team who specialize in bio-engineering rather than […]
While this series has accomplished many things over the course of its English-language run so far (such as being consistently hilarious, and successfully satirizing some of heavy metal’s more outrageous aspects), I think that its greatest achievement in the end will be making me look like a complete ass. Since the beginning of its run, […]
Two volumes in and mangaka Tsutomu Nihei’s latest work to be translated into English continues to be a stellar example of how to properly do style over substance. Badass synthetic human Zoichi Kanoe and his AI partner Fuyu continue their quest to stop the evil machinations of the Data Recovery Foundation by blowing up lots […]
This was the only manga I picked up at Fanime this year since it was the only thing I could find there at a discount. The first volume was a surprisingly gripping tale of a group of survivors trying to make their way out of a department store that had been devastated by an earthquake… […]
Providing further proof that there exists no premise that can’t be made into a manga is the first volume of Hisae Iwaoka’s “Saturn Apartments” which is a pleasant slice-of-life look at window washers in the upper stratosphere. In the future, mankind has evacuated Earth in order to preserve what’s left of it and everyone now […]
This is the latest Vertigo Crime graphic novel and it’s, well… at least it’s readable. The story involves Joe Ullen, a former hockey star who returns to his hometown after his old high school girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. In addition to dying under mysterious circumstances, she’s also named him the executor of her will […]
Shizuro Oguro is living the life of an average Japanese salaryman when his mid-life crisis kicks in and he quits his job to become a mangaka. Unfortunately he can’t find the right motivation he needs to create the timeless classic that will prove to his dad and daughter that this wasn’t a huge mistake. Rather […]
Norman Osborne’s relentless pursuit of Tony Stark and the secrets in his head concludes in this volume which provides as thrilling a ride as you can expect in mainstream comics today. Tony’s path of escape leads him though the snowy fields of Russia to the craggy mountains of Afghanistan as he tries to stay one […]