Manga and Comic Reviews
So I did get around to seeing “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” over the weekend. I’m saving the bulk of my opinion on the assumption that we’ll be talking about it on “No Podcast for Old Men” in the next week or two, but I will say that I thought it was alright. Jackman nails the character […]
I’ve noticed for a while now that Marvel has been steadily raising the prices on their trade paperbacks. Where a collection of a 5-issues used to run you around $13-14, it’ll now run you anywhere from $15-20 these days, depending on how well the series sold in single issue form. While I’d say that the […]
Due to unavoidable family problems, no podcast for this week. While I’ve been able to get around to John’s on a pretty regular basis to record these, this weekend threw us a curveball. That said, I’m betting that John wishes things didn’t turn out like this more than I did. So instead of a podcast […]
Today was one of the rare Wednesdays where NOTHING I wanted was scheduled to ship, and the comic shop didn’t get in anything I asked them to order for me… Of course, that really won’t make a difference here since I generally don’t comment on the comics I’ve just bought for this column. I have […]
Back to the old format for this week. Three reviews below the break… X-Men: Legacy vol. 2 — Sins of the Father After the end of the “Messiah Complex” crossover, the “adjectiveless” X-Men title mutated into a Professor X solo book where he travels the world meeting with old friends and enemies in order to […]
I had heard two things about Warren Ellis’ newest series prior to reading it. The first was that it felt VERY MUCH like his defining series “Transmetropolitan.” The second was that it didn’t really start to differentiate itself and become interesting in its own right until issue eight, the last one collected in this volume. […]
I don’t plan things this way, but the stuff I picked up last week turned out to be three more volumes in series that I’ve been reading for a while. So while it goes without saying that none of these represent a good jumping on point for their series (well.. “Criminal” is a special case), […]
The podcast will be up soon (by “soon” I mean in the next 24 hours or so). In the meantime, I’ve got more thoughts on some recent trade paperbacks: The Immortal Iron Fist vol. 3: The Book of The Iron Fist I really enjoyed the first two volumes of “The Immortal Iron Fist,” written by […]
So, I heard Batman died last week. Yeah. I don’t belive it either, and while I could go on about how comic book deaths never last (most are speculating that Mr. Wayne will escape death the same way Shiloh Norman did in another Grant Morrison comic, “Seven Soldiers of Victory”) but someone else summed up […]
No podcast this week, but we’re all set for the next few. In the meantime — reviews! Runaways: Dead End Kids Back when Brian K. Vaughan announced that he was leaving “Runaways,” the series that he created along with Adrian Alphona, I remarked to the owner of the comic shop I frequent that the series […]