Manga and Comic Reviews
So the most disappointing comics news I’ve read in the last month was that Marvel fired writer Chuck Wendig from an upcoming “Darth Vader” miniseries. It’s not disappointing because I was particularly excited to read it (I’m sure it would’ve been fine), but because of his social media presence where he routinely fought back against […]
Fuck this series. What started out as a fun alternate-universe “Evangelion” title burned away any goodwill it had long ago. There’s no denying that it’s take on the franchise, a happy ending filled with wacky hijinks compared to the world-ending apocalypse of the TV series and movies, was refreshing at first. After a while it […]
The focus of this series shifts back to Darryl Lorenz and his squad for this volume as the Zeon forces pursue their own efforts to recapture the tech behind the Psycho Zaku from the Nanyang Alliance. Well, with a side of pillaging to go with the hunting as it’s revealed in the opening chapters that […]
The first few chapters in this volume are set in Belgium and are veeeeeery foreshadow-y. Specifically in regards to what the endgame of this virus might be, and I hope it’s not as much like “The Human Centipede” as it’s made out to be here. Then things finally shift back to Hideo, Oda, and the […]
So I was looking at my “to review” pile and saw that there’s an excessively large amount of manga in it. Enough to take me into December if I tackled each volume at my normal rate. Then I remembered that I’ve got another order of manga coming in from The Right Stuf as I write […]
“Batman: Damned” got off to a headline-grabbing start last week. Not because of its status as the debut “Black Label” title for mature readers superhero comics, or the quality of the storytelling from writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo. No, it grabbed all of those headlines because in one scene Bermejo drew Batman disrobing […]
For the last several volumes this series has been focused on the martial-arts tournament that Saitama has been competing in so that he can learn more about this particular style of fighting. While this has been going on, a monster invasion in the city has had the many members of the Hero Association playing defense. […]
What fresh hell awaits us in this volume? Not much, all things considered. Compared to previous volumes where I was expecting “Murcielago” to stop trying to shock me, only to be proven wrong in unsettling and/or skin-crawling ways, this volume is relatively sedate. A kid gets stabbed in the head, a woman gets part of […]
Leonardo Watch is about to face his biggest challenge yet as a member of Libra. It starts off with his sister breaking the news that not only is she getting married, she’s coming to visit him in Hellsalem’s Lot with her fiancee in tow. The good news is that said fiancee, Toby McLachlan, looks to […]
If you were hoping that the lesbian psychodrama which provided the high point of the previous volume would continue in some way here, then you’re going to be disappointed. The good news is that the sexy shenanigans of this volume are some of the best this series has offered up in recent memory. It starts […]