Manga and Comic Reviews
He’s not even a month into his tenure as Marvel’s new Editor in Chief but C.B. Cebulski is already dealing with his first major controversy. Namely, the fact that he previously wrote for the company under an assumed Japanese name: Akira Yoshida. The way this happened sounds more amusing/absurd than anything else as Cebulski came […]
In the wake of the “Milk Wars” crossover Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint goes through a familiar rite of passage at DC in this month’s solicitations. That would be the “soft relaunch” as three of its titles are getting new #1 issues and a new miniseries debuts alongside them. Of the group, Cave Carson Has […]
So how about that Disney/Fox merger that just happened? Assuming it goes through it’ll wind up being the biggest entertainment merger ever and likely to have a huge impact on the films and TV we watch. The “X-Men” and “Fantastic Four” joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe might actually wind up being on the low end […]
Three volumes in and writer Charles Soule is still finding decent, but not spectacular ways to make the pre-”The Force Awakens” adventures of the title character interesting. He succeeds best in the opening story which has Poe meeting up with an old journalist friend, Suralinda Javos, after she tells him about a big story she […]
If there’s one character that Bendis has been most closely associated with during his time at Marvel, it’s been the “Ultimate” incarnation of “Spider-Man.” He wrote every issue of the continuity-free modern update of Peter Parker’s adventures from the start, showed us the character’s death (and eventual resurrection), and gave us a new one in […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first arc on “Black Panther” didn’t really live up to my expectations. Having an extremely talky twelve-issue story to tell where the talk wasn’t especially interesting will do that. It wasn’t bad enough to get me to give up on the series, so here we are now with vol. 3 and Wakanda is […]
For me, and a lot of other fans, Warren Ellis was the defining creator of the WildStorm imprint. While it had a lot to offer followers of great superhero art prior to his arrival, the writing on most of its titles could charitably be described as “total crap.” His debut on “Stormwatch” didn’t change things […]
It’s not that there haven’t been “The Walking Dead” spinoffs outside the comic before. They’ve just been limited to shorts appended to issues spotlighting certain characters or Comic Book Legal Defense Fund annuals. “Here’s Negan!” originally serialized in the first sixteen issues of “Image+” is the first spinoff to be long enough to warrant its […]
Magic in the Marvel Universe is on the mend after the Empirikul’s crusade in the previous volume, which leaves us with a greatly diminished Doctor Strange. This is a fact which has not gone unnoticed by his rogues gallery who have descended to make his current week a living hell. As well as an actual […]
Marvel’s first “Star Wars” crossover was a no brainer between the ongoing series of the same name and “Darth Vader.” It certainly had its moments and great art, but it didn’t really accomplish much besides shuffling the cast around between the two titles. This time around “Star Wars” is crossing over with the lower-profile “Doctor […]