Manga and Comic Reviews
Among the news coming out of Comic-Con last week included Greg Rucka bringing “Tevinter’s Boba Fett” to a “Dragon Age” miniseries, Joss Whedon answering the question of “Why isn’t there a female Victorian steampunk Batman?” in his new series “Twist,” Paolo Rivera and Chris Roberson contributing to the Mignolaverse, and Larry Hama doing a “Call […]
Would you believe me if I said that this series about kids uncovering the history of Gotham’s most prestigious school involved no creepy weirdness, paranormal activity, or Batman? Didn’t think so. It all centers around Olive Silverlock, a student who is beginning her second year with a host of issues. Not only does she wind […]
This year’s con was a huge improvement over the previous one. If only for the fact that I didn’t lose my badge on Saturday. Then again, I was only there for two days, so the window for things to go wrong was just that much smaller. Aside from the always enjoyable (and usually fruitful) searches […]
What the hell did I just read? The only thing I’ve enjoyed about Rob Liefeld’s comics career is his willingness to let other creators like Alan Moore and Brandon Graham play around with the characters he’s created over the years. Now Warren Ellis, with artist Tula Lotay, joins their ranks with this esoteric take on […]
The first volume was a quality mix of worldbuilding, futuristic police procedural, and characterization that was undermined in the end by a climax that relied on the tired “talking killer” trope. For better and worse, you get more of the same here when detectives Ristovych and Dietrich take on the case of who killed star […]
Billed as the start of “The Apocalypse: Year Two,” this latest volume of Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s thoroughly entertaining sci-fi western shows us that the son of Death and PRA leader Xiaolian is going to be a major factor in this next leg of the story. He was raised with the name Babalon to […]
The first volume of this series was great fun and the second one continues the trend. With the focus firmly established on the title character and his partner, Dawn Greenwood, experiencing the many wonders the cosmos has to offer, writer Dan Slott has a simple but effective formula to tell stories regarding this cosmically intrepid […]
It wasn’t expected to be a mini-phenomenon which got DC Comics to broaden its scope in what titles it sold to reach a new audience, but that’s what this latest revamp of “Batgirl” by writer/breakdown artist Cameron Stewart, co-writer Brenden Fletcher, and artist Babs Tarr did. What I really don’t know is why they decided […]
The delicate balance of terror in this series continues to be maintained through this volume. After it was revealed in vol. 3 that the Nazis have Uber spies with their own special abilities, the issue of ferreting out the one in Bletchley Park becomes an issue here. Not the key issue as writer Kieron Gillen […]
I guess I stuck to my guns through sheer force of inertia. Yeah, I would’ve bought this volume in hardcover if I had found it on sale, but that didn’t happen. So nearly a year after I read the previous volume, the final act of Rick Remender’s epic storyline finally arrived at my door. Was […]