Manga and Comic Reviews
The first volume of this series represents what I thought was the best work from Tom King over the course of a very prolific and successful 2016 for him. It was a look at the incredibly screwed-up state of post-invasion Iraq through the perspective of three characters: Chris, a cop turned military consultant tasked with […]
I was honestly expecting this to be the last volume of the series, given the way vol. 3 ended and along with the summary provided on the back cover. That’s not the case here. We’ve got at least two more volumes to go, with one of them being a collection of one-off stories that were […]
The long-running thread of just what Detective Ralph Dietrich is doing on the Fuse finally reaches its conclusion with this volume. Yet vol. 4 takes a roundabout, though not unappreciated, way of getting to that as it kicks off with one of the station’s inhabitants making a suspicious call at night before transitioning to the […]
Lots of interesting new title announcements from Image coming out of the Emerald City Comic-Con a few weeks back: Joe Casey and Ulises Farinas are bringing us “The New Lieutenants of Metal” which is aiming to be as gloriously incomprehensible as early Image comics were. That sounds like a threat to me, even with art […]
The word around town is that Marvel’s latest revamp is not a revamp. Confused? Well, the idea is that the company wants to get back-to-basics with a lot of their characters much in the same way that DC did to much success with “Rebirth.” Not only can you expect to see more classic iterations of […]
There are plenty of new collections in this month’s batch of solicitations from DC. But why concern yourself with them now when we have word about collections that will arrive even later this year! Some of these are particularly long-in-the-coming, such as “The Atlantis Chronicles” from Peter David and Esteban Maroto, which details the pre-Aquaman […]
This volume took a while to arrive, but it was ultimately worth the wait. I thought that the first volume of “The Autumnlands” from writer Kurt Busiek and artist Benjamin Dewey was the best new Image title to debut in 2015 thanks to its impressive worldbuilding, clever twist on the “legendary hero” story, and amazing […]
You could say there’s been some good news on the manga publishing front at Dark Horse. After a three year hiatus, vol. 4 of Kohta Hirano’s Drifters is solicited here (for release in August) following a successful anime series last Fall. While they’re not solicited here, it’s been mentioned elsewhere on the web that the […]
The previous volume left off in a way that suggested big things were going to happen here. Kyle Barnes had been captured by Sidney and his crew of possessed humans and was completely at their mercy regarding their plans for the Great Merge. Those of you (myself included) expecting this to be a climax point […]
With his track record, any new Image series from Jonathan Hickman is a reason to get excited about. I was particularly looking forward to seeing how the full volume of “The Black Monday Murders” would read after I checked out the first issue several months back. Now that the final volume is here, it still […]