Manga and Comic Reviews
“Vaughan was last seen working on a revival of Swamp Thing over at Vertigo, which is tantamount to wearing a sign around your neck saying ‘I am not Alan Moore, please kick me’.” — Paul O’Brien, The X-Axis It’s been years since I first read that quote, but it sums up the general state of […]
Lots of changes this month in the solicitations. There are a couple prominent series like “Nightwing” and “Teen Titans” ending, low-selling ones like “Stormwatch” getting the axe, and new high-profile debuts like “Batman Eternal” and “Sinestro.” Save for “Batman,” there’s not a whole lot that interests me in the latest bout of culling and churning […]
At least, that’s what the title is on the cover depending on your interpretation of the layout. The copyright info inside calls this “The Complete Multiple Warheads.” So this may be all we’re getting of organ-smuggler Sexica and her double-dicked werewolf boyfriend Nikolai and the crazy world they live in. Or it might not. Creator […]
Unfortunately the biggest news about the company in the last month is still the revelation that “Star Wars” will be headed to Marvel next year. I’d like to think that Publisher Mike Richardson and the rest of his team have been preparing for this inevitability and have found ways to shore up revenue or are […]
Remember what I said last week about the possibility of a $4.99 monthly price point for Marvel or DC comics? Also how the only way they could pull off such a thing would be by offering a corresponding increase in value (read: page count)? Well, there’s a lot of that going around in the comics […]
I’ve mentioned once or twice that some comics I read were bad enough to be sold to BookOff, the Japanese used book/DVD/Blu-ray/videogame chain that also has branches in the U.S. Because that’s the worst fate I can imagine for a series that either offends me so, or I can’t remember why I cared about them […]
Rich Johnston’s latest bit of speculation about the market is something that I hope he’s wrong about. According to him, the comics industry seems poised to have comics prices jump to $4.99 an issue sometime this year. This is due to the fact that most of the industry has transitioned their titles to the $3.99 […]
Brian Wood’s take on the legendary barbarian reaches its second volume and some growing pains along with it. As was the case with vol. 13, it consists of two three-part arcs which present new challenges for the character as he now shares his life with the pirate queen Belit. The stories represent a solid read […]
This originally started out as a digression on my review of “Powers: Bureau” before I realized that it was morphing into its own thing. As you can probably guess from the title, I’ve finally gotten around to playing the biggest game of 2013 and it’s an incredible technical achievement on many levels. I’ll be going […]
The most notable female Fables, the “fairest in all the land” if you will, are on a list and being killed off one by one along with whatever unlucky bystander happens to be next to them at the time. It’s up to Fabletown’s top spy Cinderella to find out who’s behind this, why they’re doing […]