Manga and Comic Reviews
We’re in the title’s home stretch as there’s only one more volume to go. With the final conflicts looming, mangaka Mohiro Kitoh takes a break from the mecha battles and focuses almost exclusively on the personal journey the two remaining pilots, Jun and Yoko, take to give closure to the families of the children who […]
There was one genuinely mind-blowing solicitation in this month’s offering. Yes, it was a manga title. No, it’s not the one you’re thinking about. However, it’s not the one that deserves above-the-line recognition here. The Sakai Project HC is a celebration of 30 years of Stan Sakai’s legendary “Usagi Yojimbo” from a host of the […]
After three volumes, and many hard-fought battles the crew of White Base finally makes it to the Federation’s South American base. There’s plenty more hardship to be had as key members of the supporting cast find their moment to shine… before being snuffed out. “Gundam” has been an engaging read up to now as it’s […]
Now this is more like it! The first volume of Makoto Yukimura’s viking epic contained over a hundred thrilling pages that set the stage for the story in dramatic fashion. They were then followed by a few hundred more of a flashback to earlier days in the lives of our protagonist and one of the […]
Unfortunately the biggest news about the company in the last month is still the revelation that “Star Wars” will be headed to Marvel next year. I’d like to think that Publisher Mike Richardson and the rest of his team have been preparing for this inevitability and have found ways to shore up revenue or are […]
I’ve mentioned once or twice that some comics I read were bad enough to be sold to BookOff, the Japanese used book/DVD/Blu-ray/videogame chain that also has branches in the U.S. Because that’s the worst fate I can imagine for a series that either offends me so, or I can’t remember why I cared about them […]
This title is still in a rebuilding phase after the dramatic events that kicked off the previous volume. Even so, vol. 8 still has plenty of scenes that provide deliciously painful entertainment from seeing the polite veneer of Japanese society pulled back to see what lurks underneath. The title’s “stock in trade,” in other words. […]
“The bailiff sweats. The revolution is on.” That’s the description of this volume’s events from the back cover. Short, sweet, and to the point, they gave me hope that the series would finally address its biggest issues and start living up to its potential. Though that hasn’t quite happened yet, vol. 3 takes some large […]
I’ve read elsewhere that a part of this title’s appeal, in Japan at least, isn’t just in seeing what kind of mischief the title character can get up to. That’s certainly fun in and of itself, but there’s also a fair amount of revisiting childhood memories through Yotsuba’s actions and living vicariously as a parent […]
“Plot development? In MY The Shinji Ikari Raising Project?” Is part of what’s said on the back of this latest volume in the series which I’ve referred to in the past as my guiltiest comic book reading pleasure. The problem is that there actually has to be some kind of plot first before there can […]