Manga and Comic Reviews
Apparently Jason Aaron felt the need after having the students and staff of the Jean Grey School take on FRANKENSTEIN’S MURDER CIRCUS to dial things back a bit. So this volume has Wolverine taking certain trouble members of the school on a field trip… to the Savage Land! Being the teacher he is, Idie, Quentin […]
The thought of this series taking another detour from the story of Jedi Dass Jennir and the crew of the Uhumele didn’t really strike me as a promising start for this story. Such detours haven’t worked out all that well for “B.P.R.D.” after all. Yet the more I read into this volume, the focus on […]
Otherwise known as, “The Series That’s Holding Up the Third Volume of ‘Phonogram.’” That being said, this is still a new work from one of comics’ most reliably entertaining and inventive teams, Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie. They knocked it out of the park on the first two volumes of “Phonogram,” the the issues of […]
Okay, after this one I’m thinking that they can give these “dated” flashback miniseries a rest. The two previous ones annoyed me (yes, even the one with art from Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon) because they felt like diversions that were keeping us from the more interesting main plot of the series. I was more […]
…off to a pretty good start. Last night’s premiere wasn’t mind-blowingly awesome, but it was suitably entertaining for a series that aims to give us a more grounded view of the Marvel Universe on a weekly basis. It’s not going to be all-superheroes all the time, as the pilot makes clear. The focus is on […]
When we last left Garth Ennis’ MAX incarnation of Nick Fury he was fighting for French interests in the country everyone would later come to know as Vietnam and escaping Cuba after a botched attempt on Fidel Castro’s life. Not only is this the story of one man who lusts for combat and the means […]
So there was an article on Bleeding Cool last week talking about a new way for publisher marketshare to be measured that Marvel and Dark Horse have been pushing for. This new system would track retail share per item sold by Diamond. So rather than just a flat percent for “unit share” and “dollar share,” […]
Is there an upside to all of the creative turmoil over at DC these days? There is if you’re Brian Bendis. Not only did he snag Kevin Maguire to do the issue of “Guardians of the Galaxy” shipping this month, but the man has apparently convinced J.H. Williams III to come do something for the […]
There are those comics you read that give you a specific idea of how they should be translated into other media. Like this one would make a great movie, or this one would be a fantastic videogame. Others tend to provoke a specialized version of this response; such as, this one would make a fantastic […]
As I said before, the first volume of this series, titled “The Strange Talent of Luther Strode,” was “‘Kick-Ass’ done right.” Of course it also ended with the main character losing almost everything and everyone important to him and then going on to fake his death via “suicide by cop.” It doesn’t exactly set things […]