Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s been a while since I started reading a new Shonen Jump title, but I’d forgotten about how most of them have a “getting acquainted” period for the first few volumes. As weekly titles, Jump series can take a while to hit their stride as they introduce their cast and flesh out their worlds. The […]
You know, I would’ve liked to have read a series about a cold-blooded killer with otherworldly powers uniting others of his kind to fight against a social order that would otherwise exploit them to the fullest extent. That’s the kind of series “Ajin” felt like during its first few volumes as Sato/Hat tried to get […]
In my review of vol. 2 I made a number of predictions about what we could expect to see in this concluding volume. This is how they panned out: “[T]hings ending with the death and/or imprisonment of the members of the Paperboy group.” Right on both counts, actually. Not everyone makes it to the finale. […]
The text on the back of this volume spells out its appeal in succinct detail: “The bailiff takes one up his ass.” It’s no secret that the series has been building to the takedown of this character. Anything less would’ve had its audience riot in the street, small as it is. So let me say […]
Strip the covers off of your (first print) copies of “Star Wars #1,” send them in to Dark Horse, and get a free variant cover of their new “Barb Wire” series. It was the “April Fool’s” joke that wasn’t. I’d call it schadenfreude, but it really isn’t. Anyway, with over a million copies in circulation […]
Real progress towards sorting out the Goridian’s Knot of Madarame’s love life by the end of the volume. You’ll have to wade through a lot of waffling on the cast’s part to get there, though. That’s because ComiFest time has arrived again and everyone who is not Ogiue (she’s busy prepping her own doujinshi for […]
After some fifteen-odd years of reading it and nearly eight alternately spent talking and writing about how good it is, the final volume of “Blade of the Immortal” has arrived for me. So yeah, I’m going to spend some time savoring the experience this evening. If these words don’t convince you about how big a […]
After two years of regular bi-monthly serialization (save for this volume), the inevitable has happened with this series: “Sidonia” has finally caught up to the latest volume released in Japan. It also picked a fine note for that to happen on here. The opening phallocentric (no, really, it is) chapter and two that follow offer […]
I don’t usually go in for videogame special editions, but the one being offered for “Final Fantasy Type-0 HD” had something that really caught my eye. That would be a 200-page manga that (as of this writing) isn’t available anywhere else. In addition to all of the other bells and whistles the special edition came […]
“VINLAND SAGA” LIVES AGAIN!!! Kodansha USA announced last week that volumes six and seven of this excellent series will be released this September and December, respectively. Even though I was having a good time at WonderCon when I read this news, finding out about “Vinland Saga’s” eventual return to print was the highlight of my […]