Manga and Comic Reviews
One of the common stories coming out of Marvel’s annus horribilis is how many comic shops experienced sharp drops in sales. Sometimes in the neighborhood of tens of thousands of dollars, but always the result of a cratering of sales regarding their Marvel product. I want to say that Marvel has been trying its best […]
DC screwing over Alan Moore is some very old news at this point. Even if they do find new ways to keep doing it, as is currently the case with “Doomsday Clock.” However, screwing with the artists he’s worked with on projects DC has published is new territory for them. Last week it was revealed […]
While we’re still waiting to see if the massive Disney/Fox merger is going to go through, and take all of the Fox licenses away from Dark Horse, Marvel started the year off by sniping a completely different license. After more than a decade at Dark Horse, Marvel is now the new publisher of “Conan” comics. […]
In the wake of “The Last Jedi” there’s been a lot of talk about how Captain Phasma is the Boba Fett of this new trilogy. Specifically, in how she doesn’t do a whole lot in the films themselves but has a distinctive look and presence to captivate fans. I’d also add that in regards to […]
This latest volume is basically two separate arcs threaded together by illness. It’s an alien illness brought from the stars because this is the Marvel Universe after all. When an alien crash-lands on Roosevelt Island and people start dropping dead from a mysterious pathogen, Wolverine is sent in to find out what’s going on because […]
Remember kids: It may not say so on the side of this volume, but this is actually vol. 2 of the new “Weapon X” series. Its first volume was a surprisingly entertaining start to what is basically the next iteration of “X-Force” and a prelude to this crossover between “The Totally Awesome Hulk.” Greg Pak […]
Al Ewing’s “other” superhero team book got off to a great start with its first volume, was waylaid by its “Civil War II” crossover and some dodgy fill-in art for its second volume, and looked to be turning things around in its third. The last of which I never got around to writing about. My […]
Yeah, I think I’m done with this series. While there was plenty of early praise for Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason’s take on “Superman” at the start of “Rebirth” I never really felt that it measured up. With the payoff this fourth volume tries to deliver for the threads that the co-writers have established in […]
After I read the first volume of Jason Aaron’s run on “Star Wars,” I was left with the feeling of, “Where do you go from here?” “Skywalker Strikes” had the core cast facing off against Darth Vader in a balls-out action story and subsequently featured Luke squaring off against Boba Fett while Han and Leia […]
There was a time, back in the days of “Hitman,” where Garth Ennis’ superhero-baiting humor felt transgressive and genuinely funny. Whether it was Hitman puking on Batman’s shoes, Kev taking the piss out of the Authority, or seeing the Punisher run over Wolverine with a steamroller, there was a time when I genuinely enjoyed seeing […]