Manga and Comic Reviews
I’ve written regularly about my issues with Dark Horse manga over the years, yet I’ve come to realize something over this past year. Consider all of the series that I’ve been reading this year that have ended: “20th Century Boys,” “Tenjo Tenge,” “Bakuman,” “Saturn Apartments,” and “Slam Dunk.” They’re all titles published by Viz. For […]
In the previous volume for this series… Actually, that was the first one I didn’t talk about here. It wasn’t that it was bad or even disappointing, just that it continued on from what had come before in fairly seamless fashion. Yes, we got the start of an extended arc about the Gauna sending an […]
Remember “Xerxes?” The sequel to “300” to be written and illustrated by Frank Miller that was previewed back when “Dark Horse Presents” launched back in 2011 and to serve as the basis for the upcoming film sequel “Rise of an Empire?” Well, after turning in two issues a couple years back, Miller has yet to […]
Terrible ending coda aside, Kyoko Okazaki’s “Helter Skelter” was an engrossing thriller that left me eagerly awaiting this story. Described as her “representative work” on the back cover, “Pink” is entertaining fluff and light on its feet with its protagonist’s determined refusal to acknowledge life’s harder edges. Interestingly enough, its quality proves to be the […]
The world lost a great man yesterday with the passing of Nelson Mandela. Imprisoned for 27 years in the cause of freeing his people, released to see it happen and be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and then going on to unify his country as president. He was a man who changed the world and […]
“Oh, it’s a review of the latest ‘Gantz’ volume,” you’re thinking, “Time for Glick to rant even more about the title’s downward spiral.” In that regard, you’re mostly right. The series doesn’t really do a whole lot to make the current alien invasion storyline more interesting and even adds in a new complication that’s more […]
It’s that time of year again as the annual volume of “Berserk” has finally arrived. That being said, the “annual” tradition is effectively over now as it’s doubtful that a new volume will even be out in Japan next year. Mangaka Kentaro Miura announced that “Berserk” is going on hiatus while he works on a […]
Keeping with a Vertical trend for this weekend, here we are with the second volume of this shonen soap opera romance. Though the first one had its issues, I wasn’t about to write it off because there was the chance that it could pull out a revelation about main female protagonist Emiru’s “sickness of despair” […]
I should’ve seen it coming through the boob window. With a cover like that, how could I actually expect the first volume of “From the New World” to be any good? Because it was being published by Vertical, that’s why! For years the company has put out some of the most interesting non-mainstream manga and […]
So this arrived a little sooner than I thought it would, and turned out to be worth the wait as well. A little win-win situation right there. Even better is that after a bit of action at the beginning the book’s entire focus shifts to Fukumachi’s efforts to chronicle Habu’s solo, oxygenless climb of Everest’s […]