Manga and Comic Reviews
Friday was spent in kind of a dazed stupor as I got up very, VERY early to meet with a friend to get in line for pre-registration for next year’s Con. Long story short, we were successful, but I felt like I spent the next few days catching up on my sleep from this endeavor. […]
“Guys who look like they can’t move are awesome!” That quote comes courtesy of Robert Kirkman, from his endorsement of Rob Liefeld’s art. Anyone who is familiar with the man’s work will get it, but if you’re not: think big, over-muscled men with giant shoulderpads and enough pouches for a survivalist’s wet dream. His art […]
Getting my badge and running the gauntlet of sales at Preview Night was the easy part. That said, if you’re at the con you should make the effort to stop by Fanfare/Ponet-Mon’s booth (2102) and buy something from Stephen there. He’s a great guy and full of passion for what he does. I thoroughly recommend […]
Picking up the first volume of this series in hardcover was a no-brainer for me. As a big fan of Stephen King, there’s no way I wouldn’t want his first major comic book storyline immortalized in that format. Now that he’s gone, I’ll admit that it did give me pause about picking up this second […]
Writer Brian Wood returns to one of the series’ recurring themes, the impact of Christianity on the title characters, with the title story. Though its description on the back cover cites “modern day ‘Viking’ black metal” as an influence, the end result reads like the writer let this influence get the better of his grounded […]
It’s been a LONG time since writer Brian Michael Bendis has sat down to write something that doesn’t involve superheroes. While I’ve (mostly) liked his work with Marvel’s superheroes over the years, “Ultimate Spider-Man” being his crowning achievement, his early creator-owned work has always been more memorable in my opinion. Re-reading “Jinx,” “Torso,” and “Fortune […]
After receiving much exposure from Grant Morrison’s “Batman” run, the Dark Knight and Boy Wonder’s English counterparts get their own mini-series. Now, the thing you have to understand about their England is that it’s a place that never quite left what we Americans regard as comics’ “Silver Age.” You’ve got goofy heroes like Salt of […]
Long time readers will know that I like Peter David’s “X-Factor” a great deal. In fact, the first six volumes of his current run are comics that I’d recommend to people who generally aren’t interested in the “X-Men” franchise. That hasn’t been the case for a while now, but David still knows how to write […]
Stories where the future has gone to hell for mutants, or where changes to the past have made for a wretched present day are a recurring trend in the “X-Men” universe. You’ve got classics like “Days of Future Past” that started the whole trend, and the “Age of Apocalypse” which provided the franchise with one […]
Oh. So THAT’S what Robert Kirkman was talking about when he mentioned the “Carl Thing” that was going to be reprinted in this volume. He mentioned this at a con a few months back and (thankfully) didn’t go into it because the majority of the audience were trade-waiters like me. Anyway, the moment itself is […]