Manga and Comic Reviews
I really want to say that this is one more reason that collecting comics in the hope that they’ll become valuable one day is for suckers, but… The story goes that after “The Walking Dead” launched back in 2004 a “Museum Edition” (read: oversized hardcover) of the first issue was created as part of a […]
The company may have lost the “Star Wars” and “Conan” licenses to Marvel, but they’ve been getting plenty of Disney licenses to help balance things out. Last month’s solicitations had the debut of an “Incredibles” miniseries while this month has the first issue of Frozen: Breaking Boundaries which is described as the first multi-issue comics […]
Who’s representing Marvel at the Eisners this year? They’ve got “Hawkeye” for Best Ongoing Series, “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” and “X-Men: Grand Design” for Best Limited Series, “Black Bolt” for Best New Series, Brian Stelfreeze and Julian Totino Tedesco as Best Cover Artists for “Black Panther” and “Hawkeye” (respectively), and Ed Piskor for Best […]
There’s an easy way to tell when a DC event means business. It’s when they use “Crisis” in its title. The original “Crisis on Infinite Earths” set the standard for being the crossover that really changed everything as it streamlined DC’s continuity in significant fashion. Subsequent events, such as “Zero Hour: Crisis in Time,” “Infinite […]
A couple days ago I wrote about how “The Negative Zone War” over in “X-Men: Gold” didn’t really live up to its title. Among its many problems was the fact that the war in its title didn’t really amount to a skirmish or two before the statue of a god came to life and started […]
Have you ever wondered what it would look like when Rick Remender writes a story that puts his protagonists so far in the red that it doesn’t make sense for them to come out all right in the end, yet they manage to do it anyway? Well wonder no more as “Extinction is the Rule” […]
Yes, those “X-Men” books do keep multiplying and piling up for me to read. The ones that I’m actually interested in following at any rate. So it happens that I picked up three new titles in my last big order of comics. While that includes the latest volumes of flagship titles X-Men: Gold and X-Men: […]
The second adventure of creator Andrew MacLean’s Head Lopper — Norgal if you’re one of his friends — couldn’t have come at a better time. We’re in the dry period between the end of Dark Horse publishing new comics and Marvel starting up their own take on the adventures of “Conan” that there’s a distinct […]
I get why “Lazarus X+66” is being released as a miniseries rather than an official volume of the main title. Series artist Michael Lark is only providing the covers to each issue while writer Greg Rucka is just co-writing the issues collected here. As both creators have been fully involved with the previous five volumes […]
After my experience with the previous volume I can now say that my biggest issue with this series has now been resolved: Erin is the “new girl,” Tiffany is the gamer girl, KJ is the lesbian with a hockey stick, and Mackenzie is (as always) the bitchy redhead. Now that I’m finally able to keep […]