Manga and Comic Reviews
When I saw Robert Kirkman at his solo panel during Comic-Con last year, he talked about the very slight chance that he’d return to the world of “The Walking Dead.” He was quick to mention that it would be after everything else in his professional life had gone wrong, leaving him desperate for a comeback […]
Garth Ennis has been writing war comics for a couple decades now. Most of them are very good, with a few ranking right up there with “Preacher” and “Punisher MAX” as some of the best stuff that he’s ever written. Even with that being the case, there are certain tropes that creep into the majority […]
Justin Jordan is a writer that I typically associate with a “style over substance” approach. It can certainly be entertaining, as he showed with artist Tradd Moore in the “Luther Strode” series. Other times it can just be tiring: See “Dead Body Road” with Matteo Scalera. “Reaver,” when it was announced had a description that […]
I hear that James Stokoe managed to secure five nominations, the most of any creator, between his one-shot “Sobek” from Shortbox, and “Grunt” his book of art and unpublished comics from Dark Horse. Regular readers will know that I’m a big fan of Stokoe’s work, so I hope he secures at least one win from […]
News broke a week ago last Friday — because everyone was ready for the weekend and therefore not ready to vent some outrage — that DC would be ending its exclusive partnership with Diamond Comics Distributors. You know, the distributor that has had a virtual monopoly on serialized comics distribution in the U.S. since the […]
While it looks like Dark Horse is playing catch-up with its single-issue solicitations here, they’ve got plenty of new collected editions on offer here. Including one that tickles my fancy enough for… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Blade of the Immortal Deluxe Edition vol. 1 HC Seeing “Blade” reissued in this format just warms my heart. While it […]
Savor this round of Previews Picks from DC. With Friday’s news that they were ending their distribution agreement with Diamond, this will likely be the last “Previews” picks you’ll read. Not that I won’t cover their solicitations if they’re made available. But something tells me that I have more of these columns behind me than […]
Image’s solicitations are also a mix of old and new titles. Among the new, however, is one that I’ve been waiting a while to see… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cruel Summer HC Like a lot of other people, I’ve been waiting for the latest “Criminal” series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips to be collected. While twelve […]
This is going to be a weird round of “Previews Picks,” as you might have guessed. With the comics industry slowly working its way out of shutdown, August’s Previews are going to look veeeeeeeery similar to June’s. With a few exceptions sneaking in here and there. In Marvel’s case, there are only two: Maestro #1 […]
Most of the chapters in this volume are focused around our protagonists, yet it doesn’t feel like they’re the ones moving the story forward here. Their stories are still good fun, starting off with a two-parter which shows us what effects stepping into the changeling ring at the end of the previous volume had on […]