Manga and Comic Reviews
As I’ve said before, if you’re going to do any kind of adaptation of film, TV or other media to comics you need to have talented people on hand if you want to have any hope of making it work. That’s not the only way, though, but it’s usually the most reasonable compared to getting […]
There’s a new “Star Wars: Legacy” in town this month. Nearly two years since John Ostrander and Jan Duursema’s thoroughly entertaining epic about Cade Skywalker, Luke’s ne’er do well, drug-addled grandson, we’re getting another series that focuses on Han and Leia’s granddaughter, Ania Solo. This comes to us courtesy of Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, […]
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order vol. 16 represents the first collection published after mangaka Yukito Kishiro packed up shop after a dispute with his former publisher Shueisha and moved over to Kodansha. So if you’re wondering why this volume looks different, that’s why. Fortunately the localization staff remains the same so the change is more […]
(A lot of places online have the title of this series as “The Limit,” however the book itself only has “Limit” on the cover and in the copyright text. So I’m splitting the difference here.) This is a new series published by Vertical, so I’m already interested. Konno is a high school girl who happens […]
This month, my feelings towards waiting for the softcover editions of some comics are severely confused. Two of the trade paperbacks offered this month, “Angel & Faith” vol. 3 and “Star Wars: Knight Errant” vol. 3 have price points and page counts of $18/132 pages and $19/120 pages, respectively. Then you also have the first […]
If you read something this year with a more unique premise than this… please let me know. I don’t think you will, but I’d certainly be surprised to see it. This is further proof that the Japanese can make a manga out of even the most unlikely, or even uncommercial, subjects. While it certainly has […]
After 300 issues, “Hellblazer” ends in these solicitations. It’s disappointing news but I suppose the writing was on the wall after its sales dipped below the 10,000 mark. There was a time when DC was considering cancelling the series, after Warren Ellis abruptly exited the title after the company declined to publish the school shooting […]
The latest volume of “Blade of the Immortal” is announced for March 2013 in these solicitations, and that’s always cause for rejoicing around here. That said, it has also given me cause to think about how conservative Dark Horse’s manga releases have become over the past few years. It has gotten to the point where […]
With this current arc, still giving off “H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’” vibes, I was prepared to be frustrated if not utterly let down by the fact that it’s essentially a distraction from the main arc. Yet, after reading through this volume I still came away satisfied. That’s partly because the wickedly intense fantasy […]
Yeah, I know I said that this would be coming on the weekend, but after last night’s post I figured some distance was in order before I write up the “Marvel Previews Picks” for December. With that out of the way, this volume of the compulsively readable title is its last regular volume. It is, […]