Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
With this volume, longtime Spider-writer Dan Slott has finally put Peter Parker back in a familiar status quo: Working for the Daily Bugle. Not as a photographer getting sweet shots of Spider-Man, mind you, but as the new editor of its science section. Before that happens, he has to throw down with the new physically […]
If it seems like we’ve been here before recently, that’s because we have. Garth Ennis and Russ Braun are together again with the story of an ersatz James Bond coming face-to-face with his thoughtlessly cavalier lifestyle. Jimmy Regent is the “Not Bond” in question and we’re introduced to him as he’s saving London from a […]
“Spy Seal” is a character creator Rich Tommaso came up with as a kid and decided to make a comic out of. While the idea of an anthropomorphic seal who is also a secret agent may seem a little strange to some, the fact that it’s drawing on two notable series as influences makes it […]
The first volume of “Bitch Planet” set up a rousing sports prision story in a future where women were systematically oppressed and the goal was to overthrow the patriarchy. Vol. 2 said nuts to that premise and set about starting the revolution now. Proper setup be damned! Now we have a third volume of this […]