Manga and Comic Reviews
My experience in reading the previous volume of this title left me concerned for its future. What had once been a dense, thoughtful, sci-fi martial-arts extravaganza had apparently turned into a fairly simple sci-fi adventure story. Then it was announced that mangaka Yukito Kishiro was ending the series and I thought that “Last Order” had […]
It turns out that the finale of “Time Runs Out” and whatever DC is planning for the month of their move to the West Coast are happening at the same time. Based on that and some interesting coincidences in the comics that shipped this week, some are speculating that this could lead to the first […]
The idea that a person can live one life in the real world and a completely different one online isn’t exactly a new idea. At first, it looked like that was where writer/artist Peter Bagge was going in this graphic novel about four people who are friends to varying degrees in real life, yet hiding […]
There really isn’t that much to talk about with the publisher right now. It’s been one of those months. However, they did announce at Kumoricon that they’ll be releasing the “Fate/Zero” manga that was adapted from the prequel novel for the popular series. Adaptations like this are usually of inconsistent quality, so I don’t see […]
It was recently noted by DC co-publisher Dan Didio that it has been almost ten years since the “Countdown to Infinite Crisis” one-shot that heralded one of the publisher’s most successful crossovers. “Success” in this case being defined in the amount of sales it racked up along with the buzz it generated. The actual quality […]
There’s only one more volume left in this series and it’s going to be painful to buy. Why? Because it’s only going to collect the last three issues of this series plus an “updated handbook of the ‘Legacy’ era” according to Amazon. I’m also not encouraged by the fact that the online retailer isn’t listing […]
There are times when a creator is telling a story that goes in a direction that you think is a really bad idea. Kieron Gillen was doing this in the previous volume of this title as Tony Stark found out from crafty Rigellian Recorder 451 that his genius had been genetically engineered to give humans […]
What we get here is a real letdown compared to the excellence of the previous volume. That’s mainly because Marvel decided that this collection could be better served by reprinting the Dardevil team-up from Waid’s run on “Indestructible Hulk.” If you’ll recall, I found that particular story to be fairly underwhelming. It’s a shame that […]
This volume has a bit more going on in it than the previous ones. In the four issues collected here from the main series, the cast deals with the fallout of “Battle of the Atom,” and tangles with the Purifiers. Then, to pad things out, “X-Men: Gold” is also collected here. It’s a one-shot featuring […]
Mia Fleming hates Suzanne, her new stepmom. So when she goes along with Mia’s dad on his annual mountain retreat, Mia makes it her business to find out just what kind of person has wormed her way into her family. With the help of some friends, and a stolen addressbook, they find out that Suzanne […]