Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
I’ve been keeping up with this series, though I haven’t felt the need to write anything more about it until now. That’s because for the past few volumes, the series has felt like it has been losing its focus. Where the initial conflict early on was defined between Maya’s Jukan group and Mitsuomi’s Executive Council, […]
First things first: Whoever wrote the summary text for the inside cover of this volume deserves a real *slow clap*. I mean really, ending with “…until the enemy’s tentacles threaten to overwhem her,” suggests an entirely different experience than what this series (or pretty much any title released by Viz) is about. Part of me […]
The wait for this volume was still worth it. Granted, most of this volume doesn’t focus on mountain climbing and almost seems to go out of its way to focus on the series’ weaknesses. I’ve said before that writer Yumemakura Baku has a tendency to over-write many scenes, leaving NO DOUBT AT ALL as to […]
So it appears that Carl Horn was on to something when he kept referencing vol. 13 of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” in his notes from the current volume. There’s also more Yasuhiro Nightow manga than you can shake a stick at here… which is apparently two volumes. But one of them is a three-in-one […]
As with its previous volumes, this title again brings something new to the table. Now that “Perfect Crime Club” — rechristened as “Perfect Crime Party” for its serialization debut — has made it into Weekly Shonen Jump the trick will be to keep it there. In a move that keeps the protagonists and the story […]