Manga and Comic Reviews
Barring a spectacular last-minute turn-around, I think it’s safe to say that Brian Wood’s latest creator-owned series is going to finish without ever having lived up to its potential. The story of environmentalists trying to survive and hold onto their beliefs in a post-environmental crash world was certainly a promising setup. Yet Wood kicked things […]
This may not surprise anyone, but yesterday’s article started off as the intro to this post. At around the third paragraph I realized that it wasn’t going to fit here anymore. That said, on with the picks! Uncanny Inhumans #0: One more reason why “Secret Wars” isn’t going to prompt a Marvel Reboot. After all, […]
The big news this week was that the Marvel Universe will end with the upcoming “Secret Wars” event. Except it won’t really as the series will be about the Battleworld that consists of characters from lots of different alternate universes and previous Marvel events. It’s by Hickman with art from Esad Ribic and is also […]
Make of this what you will: Last week, Kodansha Comics announced several new manga licenses. Of particular interest to me was “Die Wergelder,” a new manga from “Blade of the Immortal” creator Hiroaki Samura. This is notable because it’s his first series to not be published by Dark Horse. In addition to the mangaka’s signature […]
As this wound up making a last-minute arrival on my “Best of 2014” list, I figured it was due for some elaboration on just why that happened. It’s a mature work of erotic fiction that skillfully fleshes out the personalities of its two female leads in a respectful, intelligent… “WAIT! DON’T LEAVE YET! THIS BOOK […]
Comics’ biggest writer! Comics’ biggest artist! Together on comics’ biggest character! That’s the kind of hype which preceded this series featuring Scott Snyder and Jim Lee taking on Superman, with Dustin Nguyen pitching in here and there for a few pages. The first issue hit the stands when the “Man of Steel” movie was still […]
…because then things like this happen. That’s right, “Daredevil” has gone straight-to-softcover for its latest relaunch and that suits me just fine. The title character is now working out of a new city, but Mark Waid and Chris Samnee are still chronicling his ongoing adventures. So really, everything I said yesterday holds true here. In […]
The previous volume of this series was kind of a wash, containing only three proper issues while reprinting two more (that I’d already read) from “Indestructible Hulk.” However, those three issues were thoroughly entertaining as they showed Matt Murdock defending the bully who gave him the nickname “Daredevil,” dealt with the Sons of the Serpent’s […]
My impression of the prolific Charles Soule so far is that he’s definitely a competent writer with occasional flashes of genuine cleverness. Yet there’s something about his writing that tends to feel just a bit too calculated at times. Like he’s sticking as close as he can to the prescribed notions of how the story […]
This arrived back on New Year’s Eve when I was setting things up for a party at my place. After all of the setup had been taken care of and people had yet to arrive, I started reading this to occupy myself until people arrived. I wasn’t expecting to be that involved with it, as […]