Manga and Comic Reviews
The latest film based on a Dark Horse comic opened nationwide this weekend. I’m talking about “R.I.P.D., ” a comic originally published a while back to relatively quiet critical and commercial reception. While other films based on obscure or low-profile comics have gone on to be successes (“The Crow,” “M.I.B.”) this is not what has […]
This series finally started delivering on the disturbing things it had been trying to illustrate in previous volumes with the fifth one. The good news is that things get even worse for our protagonists here! In the wake of the fire on the riverbank, Takao gets a visit from some policemen, grounded, a visit from […]
This has been a looooooong time coming. They were joking at the “Best and Worst of Manga” panel at Comic-Con last year that 2013 may be the year this collection finally ships. Well it has and the results are going to be most appealing to those who prefer art over story. “Panorama Island” is the […]
It’s a striking cover image, to be sure. The sight of a knight in full plate armor charging towards the reader on a horse with his spear outstretched with German text and a design sense that screams “middle ages” lets you know that this isn’t like your usual manga. However, on the back cover there’s […]
After years of not going to North America’s largest anime convention, I dropped by for a day yesterday after some friends said they were going and wanted to know if I’d be interested. I figured that regardless of how the day went, it’d be worth it to hang out with them regardless of how my […]
If you’re wondering who this Garma person is and why he’s so important that this volume bears his name, you can rest assured that your questions will be answered by the end of the volume. As head of the Principality of Zeon’s North American forces, it has become his job to capture White Base and […]
As we were led to believe at the end of the previous volume, Sakuragi leads the charge in getting Shohoku’s momentum back through means both unconventional (yanking on a player’s jersey) and skilled (swatting a player’s lay-up down onto his shoe). Even though he’s doing his best, there are still other issues at hand, such […]
I’ve talked about mangaka Tsutomu Nihe’s evolution as a creator from “Blame!” to “Biomega,” and this volume manages to continue that trend. Now, the growth of Nihei isn’t the same as other writers as “Blame!,” for all of its fantastic art and mysterious nature, left me with the impression that he doesn’t quite get the […]
So you’ve got a series about a bath engineer from Roman times who makes a habit of falling into water and waking up in modern day Japan. Once there, he observes some notable aspect of their bathing culture and then tries his best to replicate it after he falls into water again and winds up […]
Today (at least at the time I started writing this) marks the fifth anniversary of the first post ever made to this site. More than anything, I continue to write, podcast, and post to this site because I don’t want to remain just a consumer of the comics I read. Before I started writing this, […]