Manga and Comic Reviews
With there being no major title announcements coming out of Comic-Con, I guess all I have to talk about here is Image’s variant theme for October. This time around, it’s tribute covers for “The Walking Dead.” As one of the longest-running and most successful Image titles, I think a stronger argument can be made for […]
Bleeding Cool Rumermonger-In-Chief Rich Johnston seems to think that someone high up at Marvel is up for the chop as a result of all the bad press they’ve been getting lately. Now this is clearly one of Johnston’s less-journalistic efforts as he notes that this is based on whispers he’s heard at Comic-Con and the […]
I must’ve missed this when it came out but one of the covers to “Dark Nights: Metal” #1 had this fittingly badass illustration of the Justice League posed together in a way that made it look like they were throwing the horns. It’s very metal and Greg Capullo deserves major props for having it come […]
Dark Horse had some notable media announcements during Comic-Con this year with three of its titles receiving TV adaptations. One of them, “Flutter” about a shapeshifting girl who turns into a boy to pursue a girl she likes, I haven’t read. Another, “Mind MGMT,” is one I’m very familiar with and kind of surprised to […]
Some people come back from Comic-Con with stories of the long lines they had to stand in so they could get into the panels they wanted to see. Not me, though. I stayed the hell away from Hall H and the other big media panel rooms and only went to comic-focused panels. So not only […]
By all rights this story should have been part of Jason Aaron’s current run on “The Mighty Thor.” I understand why that didn’t happen as it would’ve required the writer to put the ongoing adventures of Jane Foster on hold for five months while we caught up with the Odinson, who we find here to […]
Have you been waiting for current “Spider-Man” Miles Morales and “Spider-Gwen” Gwen Stacy to strike up some kind of inter-dimensional, quasi-romantic relationship? Then this is the crossover for you! If you’re like me and you haven’t been waiting for this, then the disjointed crossover that is “Sitting in a Tree” will likely only leave you […]
I was hoping for some kind of redemption regarding the “Abe Sapien” ongoing series with this volume. That title wound up being consistently mediocre with an ending that didn’t wrap up much of what had come before. Yet sprinkled throughout the ongoing title’s run were one-off stories featuring work from several different artists both known […]
Grant Morrison was a huge influence on My Chemical Romance frontman/”Umbrella Academy” writer Gerard Way. So it’s probably not too surprising that Way has decided to put his own spin on Morrison’s groundbreaking “Doom Patrol” run as the inaugural title for his Young Animal imprint. It also means there’s a lot of hero worship for […]
The first story in this volume contains something I never thought I’d see: Good art from Felipe Andrade. In his work on other titles like “Ultimate X-Men” and “Siege: Battleworld” he usually took “stylistic exaggeration” to mean that he had the freedom to deliver characters that looked like twisted, misshapen lumps of their usual selves. […]