Manga and Comic Reviews
Three volumes in and I’m having the sinking feeling that my optimism regarding the first volume was misplaced. While the subject matter here is considerably less depressing than it was in the last volume, it’s all hugs and smiles as life lessons are learned, bitter adults become less bitter, and displays of the power of […]
Continuing with tonight’s theme is the latest from the creators of “Death Note.” While that series was entertaining for a while, it jumped the shark with the death of its co-protagonist halfway through and then crashed and burned spectacularly at the end. I wasn’t too thrilled about the idea of reading another manga from writer […]
“The Best/Worst Manga of the Year” panel needs to be longer. One hour is not enough time to hear such great speakers as Jason Thompson, Christopher Butcher, and Shaenon Garrity talk about what rocked and what did not in the world of manga over the last year. The only thing more disappointing than not getting […]
This year’s Comic-Con was a more manageable beast than last year’s. I don’t know if it was the absence of the “Twi-hards” or just better management on the part of the con staff, but the crowds were less beastly than they were last year. In addition to seeing panels with great and legendary creators like […]
You know, I like this series but the events of this volume were a real bummer. After being accepted into the Tokyo Space School, Asumi finds herself acclimating rather well to its curriculum and solidifying the friendships she began in the last volume. The problems begin when she finds out that if she becomes an […]
IT’S A CUTE KITTY MANGA!!! Uh… and there’s not much more to say than that. If you’re a cat person like me, then you’ll find it impossible to resist this series’ charms as mangaka Konami Kanata does an incredible job of making Chi’s behavior both familiar and utterly believable to any cat owner. My main […]
In the space of a week I’ve read two comics that have featured surprise same-sex hook-ups. The first one happened in the pages of John Layman and Rob Guillory’s “Chew vol. 2” while the second appeared in vol. 2 of Masayuki Ishikawa’s “Moyasimon.” Both were quite surprising to read, though it was more surprising to […]
When I brought in this volume to read at work earlier this week, I told one of my friends that unless it was really good it was going to be the last one I buy. He said “okay” but thought that my decision was a little strange after noting that I had spent in the […]
That’s a particularly apt subtitle, and one that will surely annoy longtime readers of this series, as the title character is (once again) absent for the majority of the volume. This time we’re treated to the battle between Zekka and Toji’s “Space Karate” team against the seeded Venusian team who specialize in bio-engineering rather than […]
While this series has accomplished many things over the course of its English-language run so far (such as being consistently hilarious, and successfully satirizing some of heavy metal’s more outrageous aspects), I think that its greatest achievement in the end will be making me look like a complete ass. Since the beginning of its run, […]