Manga and Comic Reviews
After picking up all of those volumes of “TMNT” digitally (and vol. 13 while I was reading through them), this marks the first volume of their ongoing series from IDW that I’ve actually had to wait for. This managed to happen at the most dramatic point in the story so far as the most recent […]
This penultimate volume doesn’t get off to the best of starts. Sure it shows us Toni Chu in Heaven making nice with Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan, but then it jumps over to showing us Olive Chu’s future career with the FDA. It’s good for some laughs, but its relevance to the main story is […]
It wasn’t all panels, screenings, and checking out places to eat at the con. …Actually on second thought, it really was with my phone and 3DS picking up the slack otherwise. But for the plane trips there and back I had to rely on the comics in my backpack. They were generally quite good and […]
I’ve been writing these “Previews Picks” ahead of my trip to Fanime and I’ve been saving this one for last. Mainly because I thought that after nothing came out of Sakura-Con, we’d get some juicy news from Dark Horse Manga at Anime Central this past weekend. As it turned out, they didn’t even have a […]
Well, it finally happened. After years of constant delays/postponements, Marvel has finally cancelled the next two issues of Bendis and Mark Bagley’s creator-owned series “Brilliant.” The first five issues were published erratically over the course of a year and the first volume wasn’t bad. It did, however, end on a note that was clearly meant […]
Originally this was going to be about Geoff Johns’ ascent in the Warner Bros/DC Films hierarchy. The short version was that I generally saw this as a good thing, particularly if it allows for Johns to put his foot down if he didn’t like something that filmmakers were doing with Superman. He has done some […]
It turns out that the third volume of “Rat Queens” did represent the beginning of the end for that series. Just not in the way that I thought it would. While issue #16 came out a couple weeks ago, word came out from artist Tess Fowler a couple weeks ago that she was being pushed […]
Two volumes in and I’m not feeling as nearly involved as I should be for what’s effectively being billed as the last “ElfQuest” story. Part of that’s due to the large sense of disconnect that comes with jumping into this without being caught up on the saga’s history beforehand. That may change when Dark Horse […]
Well, the first two volumes had their endings derailed by the old “talking killer” trope. Did writer Antony Johnston go for the hat trick with this third volume of his and artist Justin Greenwood’s sci-fi police series? No he did not, and that just one reason why this is the best volume of “The Fuse” […]
What the hell happened here!? I’ve enjoyed the Brian Posehn/Gerry Duggan run of “Deadpool” for a while now and was looking forward to what the soft relaunch had to offer. Yeah, Posehn was no longer going to be co-writing it, but his real job is as a stand-up comedian/actor. Surely leaving the comic in the […]