Manga and Comic Reviews
Yesterday, I talked about a comic that did an awful job of managing the transition between story arcs. When you’ve been working on one story for as long as “Girl Genius” has, there needs to be some time to step back, decompress, and take stock of things or else you wind up burning the audience […]
The good news: After six years and seven volumes, the “Mechanicsburg” arc of this series has finally wrapped up. Though utterly interminable in the length of its serialization, the arc was not without its moments of wild imagination and smashing humor. Now for the bad news: Nothing seems to have been accomplished with its end. […]
There’s a good piece over at “Comics Alliance” by Juliet Kahn about how Sam Wilson’s tenure as the new “Captain America” and Female Thor are essentially gimmicks that only represent the illusion of progress and will likely be reversed in two years or so. Go ahead and read it, her piece is very well thought […]
Brian Azzarello has taken Wonder Woman on a unique journey over the course of his tenure as the writer of her ongoing series. Eschewing nearly all connections to the DC Universe at large, he’s embraced the character’s mythological side and given us a modern tale of the wrath and pettiness of the Greek gods pitted […]
An issue of “The Walking Dead” topped the sales charts in October, the first time it has done that this year. However, unlike the previous times issues of this title hit #1, it wasn’t due to an anniversary issue or mass of variant covers. No, this time it was all thanks to Loot Crate and […]
New Year’s Week is always the deadest week of the year for comics, but there’s at least one uh… decently lit spot for me. Vol. 4 of “The Massive” will be arriving then, so we’ll see if Brian Wood’s post-cataclysm series can finally start living up to its potential before the end. There are also […]
Back when I reviewed the first volume I expressed my hope that they’d get a new colorist for this series. One who knew how to make the colors as vibrant as the console and arcade brawlers this title draws its inspiration from. Well, writer/artist Sina Grace and co-writer Daniel Freedman replaced John Rauch with Renee […]
Working forward from last month, DC’s big “We’re moving to Burbank in March and April of next year and need something stockpiled to cover for it!” event is called “Convergence.” It’ll be spinning out of the ends of the finales for two of their weekly series “Earth 2: World’s End” and “Future’s End” with a […]
So here we are with the latest relaunch of the Ultimate Universe. It’s most likely going to be the last if the “The End” teaser they’re running for it as part of the upcoming “Secret Wars” event turns out to be the real thing. Frankly, I’m hoping it is. While the imprint has resulted in […]
Alright, you’ve got a series that has won universal acclaim, a couple Eisners, and has even managed to defy (to a certain extent) the industry trend of declining sales with each issue. How do you follow something like that up? If you guessed “Have the series suffer through some unexplainable delays while additional artists come […]