Manga and Comic Reviews
More good news for the company: “The Walking Dead” #115, the tenth anniversary issue that kicks off the “All Out War” arc and comes with 15 interlocking covers, is the best selling issue of the year (so far, at least) with around 350K orders. New titles “Velvet,” by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting and “Pretty […]
After years of lawsuits, speculation, confusion, anticipation, and that one time when Todd McFarlane kinda sorta put him into the “Spawn” story in the Image 10th Anniversary Hardcover: “Miracleman” is returning to comics. At this point, the story of how Marvel’s legal team got all of the rights to the title and characters may make […]
Was there any more significant news about the company in the past month than what I talked about yesterday? No. No there was not. On with the picks! (Okay, the “Grendel/Shadow” crossover by Matt Wagner sounds awesome, but it doesn’t excite me more than a new volume of “Eden” does.) The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper […]
That you’re reading this review is a testament to the power of morbid curiosity. While the first volume of “Mind MGMT” certainly had its merits, writer/artist Matt Kindt’s decision to wrap it up with the revelation that the whole endeavor was a big zero-sum game was thoroughly disappointing. Essentially we wound up with six issues […]
It’s the new year in solicitations and thanks to the recently concluded New York Comic-Con, we’ve got some idea of what to expect from DC in the new year. Most significant at this point is the announcement that the company will be doing another weekly series. While they’ve done this before in the past with […]
Paul Pope is a fantastic creator and this represents not only his first long-form work since “Batman: Year 100,” but also his first original project since “100%.” That’s far too long a wait between either of these projects and that’s the kind of thing that can lead one to foam at the mouth for new […]
Growing up in the 80’s I don’t think there was a TV show that I loved more than “MacGyver.” Like everyone else, I loved seeing all of the crazy inventions he’d come up with each week to get himself out of impossible situations. His antics also instilled in me a love for on-the-spot ingenuity, for […]
Marvel doesn’t do a whole lot of original graphic novels. Their last one was the (quite good) “Halo” one from several years back, and I imagine that was down to the licensing directives of Microsoft and Bungie more than anything else. However, the company constantly gets its ass handed to it each year when the […]
Though Dark Horse’s tenure with the “Star Wars” license kicked off with probably the most significant comic-based story in the franchise, “Dark Empire,” they’ve since spent a lot of time exploring new characters, scenarios and timelines. The end result has produced a lot of worthy entertainment, particularly between two “Johns” — Ostrander and Jackson Miller […]
Hickman’s record with me has been rock-solid, and his creator-owned titles have been a cut above his superhero work so picking this up was, once again, “a no-brainer.” This is in spite of the fact that “East of West” represents a bit of a departure for the writer as he’s addressing a very specific American […]