Manga and Comic Reviews
“Knights of Sidonia” continues to remain, for me at least, an intriguingly weird meeting of mangaka Tsutomu Nihei’s unique style with a fairly generic mechs vs. aliens story. The most memorable bits usually come when he makes an overt attempt to integrate a particular trope into the story. This is how we get things like […]
If you were expecting things to continue on much as they did in the first volume, then you’ll likely be satisfied by this second volume about the love-and-work-lives of gay couple Shiro and Kenji and the food they eat. This also means that the title’s flaws — its predictability, the way the momentum grinds to […]
Now I know I expressed some concern about the upcoming finale of this series in my thoughts about the upcoming volume. After reading this one, I’m happy to report that they’ve been effectively dispelled. Things start off with an effective epilogue to Abayama’s battle in the previous volume as we find out about the time […]
It’s the end of an era as the final “Star Wars” comics from the company are solicited here. Though I’ve already written plenty about this subject, the fact that they’re doing it now makes a good amount of sense. Not only are the actual issues solicited here, but the final trade paperbacks are being advance-solicited […]
Okay. I know that I’ve been fairly critical of this series in the past, but I’m starting to think that it has finally turned a corner here. After the previous volume managed to present a series of events that didn’t annoy the hell out of me, this one continues the momentum on several fronts. Things […]
When I started reading the first volume of this series, I had high expectations for it. After all, it was from the creator of “Planetes,” still the best manga ever published by Tokyopop, and the placement of each new volume on the sales charts indicated that this story about vikings had transcended whatever limitations doing […]
This series has gotten enormous mileage in making delicious suffering out of its protagonist’s entire life situation. In news that should surprise absolutely no one who has been reading “The Flowers of Evil,” it gets some more during the first half of this book. Still reeling from being called out by Saeki for not finding […]
Wondercon wasn’t the only con being held this past weekend as Sakura-Con was also going on way up north of me in Washington. Even though I’ve never been to the con or even in the state itself, it’s of importance to me for one key reason: It’s the con where Dark Horse announces the latest […]
There’s a lot of suffering to endure in this series. On one hand, there’s the suffering endured by the inhabitants of the Swiss cantons who are hemmed in by the Wolfsmund gate at Sankt-Gotthardt Pass as they struggle against Bailiff Wolfram’s apparent omniscience in regards to their plans. On the other, there’s the suffering the […]
This volume focuses on the adventures of a boy, a hermaphrodite and a tentacle. That’s not to say that this series has turned into a hentai manga, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that since Tsumugi is now represented by a phallic-looking tentacle. It’s an amusing development in what turns out to be one of […]