Manga and Comic Reviews
Cave Carson’s cybernetic eye may be part of this series’ title, but the last time we saw the explorer that titular eye was making a break for it. That leaves Cave in a very bad place as the first issue in this second volume begins with a flashback to the time that he met Superman. […]
An otherwise great vol. 2 of this series was hamstrung by an ending that made me question how much progress the story had actually made. Vol. 3 doesn’t make that mistake because by the end of it we’ve finally caught up to and gone past the scene Dylan has been flashing back to since the […]
It’s the first crossover of the latest relaunch and the results are… decidedly meh. Wheeling out Mojo as the bad guy for this event certainly had potential as his evil-TV-producer-from-another-dimension schtick does give the creators a chance to cut loose and come up with some crazy scenarios. The problem here is that co-writers Marc Guggenheim […]
The next age of “Avengers” starts in a couple months with Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness’ new series. In the meantime, the “No Surrender” weekly event is winding down and we’ve got the trade collections for the last couple of “Avengers” titles that I still read. Those would be vanilla “Avengers” and “U.S.Avengers,” written by […]
After sticking it out through multiple titles featuring the “Inhumans” and the “IvX” crossover, it appears that Charles Soule’s reward is his own “X-Men” title. It’s a team book featuring Old Man Logan, Rogue, Psylocke, Bishop, Gambit, Fantomex, Angel, and… one more character featured on the cover but not properly introduced until the second issue. […]
It’s the end of an era in these solicitations as a long-running manga series reaches its final volume. That’s right true believers, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project vol. 18 will finally arrive on our shores this August (remember, Dark Horse collections are always advance-solicited by two months). While there’s still no definitive […]
Officially, Chip Zdarsky has signed an exclusive deal with Marvel Comics. He wrote the most recent “Howard the Duck” series for them and is currently writing “Spectacular Spider-Man” and “Marvel Two-in-One,” the latter of which has an annual illustrated by “Injection’s” Declan Shalvey solicited this month. While I’m very familiar with his art in “Sex […]
To my surprise, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Kill or be Killed wraps up with its twentieth issue in these solicitations. Its first two volumes established it as one of their better series, a trend which continues with the third one. I’ll have a review of that up in the next week or two. Those […]
There’s a new imprint on the DC block: Black Label. If you’ve been wanting to read some out-of-continuity tales featuring the company’s most popular superheroes by some of its biggest creators then this is what you’ve been waiting for! Me? Well, I won’t say no to reading more “Batman” stories from Scott Snyder and Greg […]
Something occurred to me after I read this volume. Laura “Wolverine” Kinney hasn’t killed anyone over the course of “All-New Wolverine.” Stabbed and knocked out a bunch of people, yes, but she hasn’t been directly responsible for any of the actual deaths that have happened in this run. A Wolverine series where the title character […]