Manga and Comic Reviews
Being a dedicated fan of Jonathan Hickman, I’ll buy pretty much anything with his name on it these days. Including this, a series he created for Avatar and co-wrote the first six issues with Mike Costa. I can only imagine that the company’s Editor In Chief, William Christensen, offered Hickman the chance to come up […]
It seemed like I was in the minority when it came to appreciating Sam Humphries’ take on “Uncanny X-Force.” No, it didn’t have a stated purpose and just had the adventures of an eclectic group of mutants as its focus, but he took the cast in some interesting directions and had a few well-played surprises […]
In this latest volume, Spider-Man’s *ahem* superior foes face off against one of the necessary evils of the comics industry. The Fill-In Issue(s)! Tossing out an issue by creators other than the people who regularly work on a title to keep it on a monthly schedule has become an increasingly rare sight in the industry […]
While these solicitations cover what we’ll get from the company at the end of the year, a couple titles that will be coming out in 2015 (or further) have also got my attention this week. Image will be publishing an English version of the French series “Red Skin” (to be retitled “Red One”) with art […]
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 […]