Manga and Comic Reviews
Anime News Network announced today that the greatest comic being serialized today will finally be wrapping up in the issue of “Afternoon” shipping this December. I speak, of course, of “Blade of the Immortal” which will be reaching its conclusion after nineteen years. NINETEEN YEARS! I know that other series have run for much longer, […]
Sometimes it’s a painful reminder to realize that while these are only solicitations for the serialized comics from Dark Horse arriving in December. Any collected editions being featured here will be arriving two months later (as always) in February. Considering that something I’ve been eagerly awaiting since it was announced by the company is shipping […]
BEHOLD THE POWER OF KICKSTARTER! Digital Manga is the first major manga publisher to utilize the crowdfunding site to bring more manga stateside. Specifically, they’re using it to not only bring their previous Osamu Tezuka work “Swallowing the Earth” back into print, but to bring us more of the mangaka’s immense body of work. “Barbara” […]
I skipped talking about the last two volumes because they wound up getting mired in my least favorite part of the series: the Mashiro/Azuki romance. While there was some good stuff in vols. 12 & 13, mostly revolving around “Perfect Crime Party” being taken off the “deathwatch” and the personal struggles of Mashiro’s new assistant […]
Remember how I said last time that it looked like things were turning around and the book was going to start focusing on the main characters again? Oh god was I wrong about that. Not only do we not see any of the main characters, save Aya in a witness role, for three-quarters of this […]
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 […]