Manga and Comic Reviews
Easton Newburn is a private investigator in New York who investigates the crimes that the police can’t or won’t solve. That’s not exactly hyperbole as his clientele almost exclusively consists of members from the major crime families of the city. So what do they do when an ex-member of the Italian Mafia steals ten kilos […]
This volume kicks off with another over-the-top concept from the writer. That of an Avengers Tower at the far end of the universe manned by an individual known only as Avenger Prime. Someone who maintains an army of Deathloks capable of traversing the multiverse to warn of and neutralize threats to it. It’s the former […]
Call me a glutton for punishment, but I decided to pick up the second volume of this series. Vol. 1 of Keanu Reeves’ first comic, with Matt Kindt doing the actual heavy lifting as the writer and Ron Garney providing the art, didn’t impress me. It came off as a very self-serious story of the […]
Vol. 1 of “Arrowsmith” was a well-done melding of high fantasy and World War I tropes. Predictable as Fletcher Arrowsmith’s introductions to the horrors of the Great War were, they still felt fresh thanks to the smart worldbuilding from writer Kurt Busiek and slick art from Carlos Pacheco. Vol. 2 continues the fine work from […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: A.X.E.: Judgment Day & Companion Kieron Gillen once said that he’d only return to the Marvel Universe if he was given the keys to take on a major storytelling role within it. Something comparable to what Jonathan Hickman was doing with the “X-Men” at the time. Marvel took the writer up on that […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Eight Billion Genies HC Charles Soule has written a lot of comic books over the years. Some have been good, some have been dull, others have been just OK. However, he’s never had a big breakout success on the level of “The Walking Dead” or “Immortal Hulk” when it comes to his creator-owned […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Nice House on the Lake vol. 2 When I picked the first volume for this series for this slot a year back, it was mainly because I didn’t know what to expect from it. All I knew about the series was that it involved this guy who invited his friends for this […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Survival Street “It’s ‘Sesame Street’ meets ‘The A-Team’ in a future American dystopia,” is how I imagine the pitch from co-writers James Asmus and Jim Festante and artist Abylay Kussainov went. Fortunately for us, Dark Horse agreed that it sounded like a good idea and now we’ve got the collected edition of this […]
Unlike another miniseries I just wrote about, the solicitation for this one didn’t endear itself to me. Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins’ latest miniseries for Dark Horse, after the intriguing but ultimately forgettable “Fear Case,” was described in a way that made it feel like it was overstuffed with lots of random ideas. All you […]
We first meet Ana and Zeno as they’re meeting each other for a nighttime stroll in the rain. It’s their first proper date after a chance meeting forty years ago and they plan to savor it for as long as they can. What took them so long to finally get together? Life. Ana’s took her […]