Manga and Comic Reviews
Even after a year that has included the wildly successful launches of “Fatale,” “Saga,” “Thief of Thieves” and what will likely wind up being the sales event of the decade with “The Walking Dead” #100, Image showed no signs of resting on their laurels at their panel on Saturday afternoon. Yes, I know it sounds […]
I don’t know how I managed to wake up before 8am on Friday, but I did and it allowed me to attend the JManga panel at 11am. JManga is a portal site where you can buy and download translated manga, legally, from a consortium of Japan’s biggest publishers. I haven’t gotten around to checking it […]
Comic-Con has come and gone and I’ve got a ton of new material for reviews and podcasts. Expect something about “Atomic Robo” in the very near future, assuming I can find a way to tie it in to “Batman: Earth One.” So when I wasn’t on the show floor rifling through the bargain bins, I […]
“Criminal” was consistently excellent. I can’t wait to see what happens next in “Incognito.” “Sleeper” is one of my all time favorites which I also loan out to friends with an interest in reading comics. With a history like that, my expectations for this latest collaboration from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips were sky high. […]
Long before Dark Horse got the rights to publish “Conan” comics, Marvel had the rights themselves and published hundreds of them from the 70’s through the 90’s. The vast majority of these were written by Roy Thomas, who is at this point a living legend for his contributions to the superhero genre based on his […]
New volumes of “The Goon” have essentially become an annual event, so it was particularly disappointing that the previous collection turned out to be the title’s lowest point. The good news is that this volume represents a return to the series’ demented, twisted, depraved, utterly mental and frequently very funny form. Here, the highlights include […]
This month’s big launch is Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s “Happy” which is quite a feather in the company’s cap. It comes down to Morrison’s involvement as, aside from his stint on “New X-Men” and a handful of smaller projects, the writer has been joined at the hip with DC since the start of his […]
This isn’t going to be another post on how good the series continues to be. Yes, this volume represents a major turning point as Rick and co. manage to not kill the emissary from another encampment and find out that there are a lot more survivors out there than they first imagined. It all leads […]
“Avengers vs. X-Men” wraps up this month. It’s hard to be invested in it right now as many are already talking about Marvel’s publishing plans in the aftermath. With Bendis leaving “Avengers,” Hickman leaving “Fantastic Four,” and Fraction rumored to be leaving “Thor” and “Invincible Iron Man” that leaves a lot of the company’s core […]
In the 1940’s Will Eisner, creator of “The Spirit,” coiner of the phrase “sequential art,” arguable father of the graphic novel, ran into some static from the Army brass when he used comics to teach soldiers preventive maintenance. However, when the higher-ups decided to see whether soldiers retained and used the information better when reading […]