Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
So it appears that Carl Horn was on to something when he kept referencing vol. 13 of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” in his notes from the current volume. There’s also more Yasuhiro Nightow manga than you can shake a stick at here… which is apparently two volumes. But one of them is a three-in-one […]
The podcast has been recorded, but we don’t have a way to get it off the recording device. ETA is now either late tomorrow or Sunday.
There are times when I think that Garth Ennis just looks through his collection of books, albums and movies and thinks, “Yeah, this’ll be a good title for the next arc of ‘The Boys.’” More often than not, there’s a kind of random disconnect in the way that the titles sometimes fail to properly convey […]
This coming September marks the one-year anniversary of the “New 52” and we’re getting another stunt to celebrate. There will be no “regular” issues solicited this month — only flashback “zero” issues designed to illuminate key points in the history of these characters and series. Some of them, such as the ones from the “Green […]
A YEAR AND A HALF! That’s about how long we’ve had to wait for this new volume of Adam Warren’s great sex/comedy/action/superhero series. I feel the need to vent about this because the first four volumes came out every six months like clockwork, with the subsequent two following in successive years. Now you can’t rush […]
I’m having to add the “by Bendis & Maleev” qualifier to the title of this because this isn’t the first relaunch of the character, it’s only the most recent. “Moon Knight” has been a title and character defined more by the people who have worked on it, notably Bill Sienkiwicz in the 70’s and Stephen […]
As you can see, I liked the first volume enough that I didn’t bother waiting until Comic-Con to pick up the second. “Deluge” continues the fast-paced, high action vibe of the previous series as Jedi Kerra Holt returns to her homeworld to free it from Sith occupation only to find it in the crossfire of […]
It was only a matter of time since this title’s spinoff book, “Incorruptible,” was launched and its protagonist, reformed villain Max Damage, was introduced that the crossover between the two would happen. Well, here it is and it proves that smaller publishers can pull a bait and switch during these things too. That’s because this […]
Believe it or not, there was a time when Ed Brubaker wasn’t regarded as the creative and commercial powerhouse that he was today. It was back when he was working at DC. Yes, he wrote “Sleeper” during his tenure there, but even though it remains one of my all time favorites it sold pretty dismally […]