Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey #1 (of 8) I didn’t expect this: Matt Wagner is returning to his other signature creation to push it forward. After the prose/illustrated novel “Past Prime” took “Grendel” to its farthest point in the future, Wagner left it there for a decade. He spent that decade looking into the past […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sandman Universe Presents: Hellblazer #1 Oh, it’s a new series from DC featuring John Constantine… Wait, it’s under “The Sandman Universe Presents” banner. So that means it’s a Mature Readers book that’s going to take place in the same shared continuity as the long-running “Hellblazer” series! And it’s even going to be […]
Marvel’s “Endgame” victory lap and its unveiling of “Phase 4.” The future of “The Walking Dead” on TV and on film. The final “Game of Thrones” panel with the cast. I went to none of the panels that featured these things. As is the case with all of the Comic-Cons that I attend, my focus […]
I wasn’t expecting to say that Gabriel Hardman, who helped give us the underwhelming “Star Wars: Legacy” sequel series, would give us a better “Aliens” series than James Stokoe, but here we are. “Dust to Dust” is a kid’s-eye view of a Xenomorph outbreak on a far-off colony planet. Young Maxon wakes up to chaos […]
I was somewhat lukewarm on the first volume of Aaron’s “Avengers.” It was the kind of “Go Big” story that started the series off at full tilt, leaving you unsure where the series could go from there. Fortunately this second volume shows that the writer does have a plan for where he wants this series […]
The Sangeryes used to be the greatest family of monster hunters out there. They were able to combat and cure the Jinoo, the name given to people whose souls were corrupted by hate, without breaking a sweat. That was until a falling-out between family members sent the gunslinging Ford to the Deep South, turned the […]
Apparently Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso decided not to take a mulligan with this series and returned for a second volume. I wasn’t really inclined to give it a shot after how the first volume turned out, but this one was on sale for 50% off so I figured I’d give it a shot. It […]
The last time we saw the good Doctor things had become real dark. Like, mindwiping her girlfriend to believe that she had killed her in order to escape Darth Vader dark. In the end, Aprha’s efforts only served to get her out of the frying pan when it was revealed that her new alien friend […]
Vol. 1 of Waid’s run left off on an incredible cliffhanger which suggested that the Strange we had been following wasn’t actually the real one. The writer wastes no time in resolving this setup for the first arc of this volume and it turns out I had it wrong. In fact, what’s really going on […]
Even if Slott doesn’t reinvent the wheel with these two volumes, there’s still fun to be had. Vol. 1, “Fourever,” does the dirty work of getting the family back together after years of corporate-mandated separation. Reed, Sue, Valeria, Franklin, and the Future Foundation’s efforts to rebuild the multiverse come to an abrupt, and needlessly harsh, […]