Manga and Comic Reviews
If there was any justice in the world today, then you’d be reading my thoughts about “Blade of the Immortal vol. 21: Demon Lair II.” But not only did my comic shop not have it, the volume wasn’t even mentioned on Diamond’s shipping lists this week. This is in spite of the fact that Dark […]
Anime Expo was… well, it was an anime con all right. I can’t say that I regretted going for Friday and Saturday, but this wasn’t as good as last year’s. Maybe I’d have better things to say about it if it hadn’t felt like GOD HIMSELF was conspiring against our efforts to enjoy the Masquerade, […]
The usual bit of recent comics news analysis I put here evolved into its own post as I was writing it. You’ll see it up here tomorrow. In the meantime, it’s an all Dark Horse review-fest after the break! Berserk vol. 29 I could hear the whining of the people who only read this series […]
So Fanime was completely awesome. I went to lots of great panels (three of them involving Carl Horn), events (the masquerade was okay this year, and there was the “Restricted Rock Paper Scissors” game I participated in… and lost), and saw clips from movies that I now have to own (including “The Scorpio Incident” and […]
The anime club that I attend (or rather, hang out in front of with all of my other friends who graduated from the college that hosts it) has semi-regular shopping trips to the Frank and Sons collectible show and the Little Tokyo area each quarter. Generally it’s a great trip to pick up some comics, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In a break from tradition, such as it is, I’m not going to talk about three series this week. Instead, I’m just going to focus on one that’s been nagging at the back of my head for a little while now. “Oishinbo vol. 1: Japanese Cuisine,” written by Tetsu Kariay and illustrated by Akira Hanasaki, […]
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), […]