Manga and Comic Reviews
This round of solicitations sees not one, but TWO collections of “Conan” for us. Unfortunately, it signifies the start of a trend that I’m not really that keen on. You see, a few weeks back the second volume of the “Road of Kings” series (subtitled “Throne of Aquilonia”) arrived in hardcover. This was unusual because […]
Manji vs. Shira: Round 1 — did it disappoint? HELL NO! This latest volume of “Blade of the Immortal” is one of the most intense reads in the series, and (as usual) one of the most captivating things I’ve read all year. After a chapter where we find out the final, bloody fate of Baro […]
I initially thought that this was only going to be a two-volume fantasy-action romp from “Hellsing” creator Kohta Hirano, but I was wrong. It turns out that this is an “ongoing” series that doesn’t have an endpoint in sight yet. Now this would be bad news if the title simply delivered up more of the […]
I’m almost convinced that this would make for a better hentai manga, or even a seinen manga, than the “corrupt” shonen romance it aims to portray. Except in one instance, “The Flowers of Evil” just doesn’t go far enough to escape its blandness and adherence to genre cliches. There was one clever twist about halfway […]
Previously, “Ultimate Spider-Man,” “Y: The Last Man” and “The Walking Dead” were part of the exclusive “milestone issue that is just a part of the current arc” club. Now you can add “B.P.R.D.” to it because even though the series has been released as a “series of mini-series” since its inception, the third issue of […]
Even after a year that has included the wildly successful launches of “Fatale,” “Saga,” “Thief of Thieves” and what will likely wind up being the sales event of the decade with “The Walking Dead” #100, Image showed no signs of resting on their laurels at their panel on Saturday afternoon. Yes, I know it sounds […]
Saturday started off on a sobering note for my group. Not due to anything that happened to us personally, but because of the panel we attended. “The Fight to Defend Manga” was a panel hosted and moderated by Charles Browenstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, that examined the ways in which […]
I don’t know how I managed to wake up before 8am on Friday, but I did and it allowed me to attend the JManga panel at 11am. JManga is a portal site where you can buy and download translated manga, legally, from a consortium of Japan’s biggest publishers. I haven’t gotten around to checking it […]
Comic-Con has come and gone and I’ve got a ton of new material for reviews and podcasts. Expect something about “Atomic Robo” in the very near future, assuming I can find a way to tie it in to “Batman: Earth One.” So when I wasn’t on the show floor rifling through the bargain bins, I […]
Yeah, the ending of the previous volume was a real bummer wasn’t it? Seeing Miria get chopped down after heading off to crush the Organization by herself, you’d think a valiant warrior like herself deserved a more glorious death than that. One where we get to see the body. Anyone familiar with certain genre conventions […]