Manga and Comic Reviews
While we’re still waiting to find out how the Batman/Catwoman wedding is going to go down, “X-Men: Gold” gave us a look at the kind of bait-and-switch that tends to go along with these kinds of events. The series has been building up to a Kitty Pryde/Colossus wedding for a while now and issue #30 […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: DC is embarking on another initiative to expand comics’ readership and is pissing off its retailers in the process. It was announced last week that DC will be selling a monthly line of 100-Page Giant anthology collections via Wal-Mart featuring “Batman,” “Superman,” and “Justice League.” While the majority […]
It was announced a year or so back that Netflix would be making a series out of the Dark Horse title “The Umbrella Academy.” While we’re still waiting for news about how that’s going, it looks like the relationship between the two companies goes both ways. I say this because Dark Horse will be publishing […]
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog regularly know that I’ve been waiting for this first volume for a while. “Sunshine & Roses” debuted back in February of 2015 and, contrary to just about every other published series on the market, waited until the series was over thirty issues in to issue its first […]
This latest “Groo” miniseries is a bit more on target than the last as it’s clear that Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier are making specific fun of something here. That would be Spain’s attempt to conquer, convert, and exploit the “new world” in the late 1400’s, early 1500’s. If you’re thinking that’s a remarkably… specific […]
This volume is, for better and for worse, essentially what I was expecting after reading through the first one. That means you can expect to see more fantastic art from creator Daniel Warren Johnson as Thea and Rollo, cast out of the Roto by their father Jerome, have to find their way to safety in […]
“Angelic” is just your average coming-of-age story set on an Earth where humanity disappeared a few hundred years back and left the world to their genetically-engineered creations. Chief among them are a race of winged monkeys who are watching over what their makers have left behind though equal parts devotion and religious dogma. Most of […]
Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker do their best to give some substance to all the style they demonstrated in the first volume of the series. Much of that comes from the plot thread involving NYPD Detective Theo Dumas and economics professor Dr. Tyler Gaddis. The doctor has found himself in a position to have the […]
The Bendis finale train at Marvel continues on with this volume of “Jessica Jones.” She’s arguably the most important character the writer has created during his time at the company. Not just because of the pretty good Netflix series that was based on her, but mainly because Jessica’s original series did something that’s still relatively […]
When two super-characters decide to tie the knot, the one thing you can expect to come from that decision is drama. Even if the two characters involved have no superpowers to speak of. So with Batman and Catwoman set to get married in two volumes’ time they’ve got to get their houses in order. Actually, […]