Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
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 […]