Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s not an unpleasant surprise, but it’s still truly baffling nonetheless. After none of the previous volumes even cracked it, vol. 10 of “Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project” is now a #1 New York Times bestseller. I believe it’s also the first Dark Horse title to have that distinction and one of […]
A bit of self-indulgence first: Sometimes, going back and reading old reviews surprises me. For instance, I was surprised at how positive my thoughts were regarding the last volume of this series. Having had several months to let its events fester in my mind, as well as consideration for my “Best of 2011” list, I […]
As always, any collections solicited here are done so two months in advance. So even though vol. 23 of “Gantz” is mentioned here, it won’t be out until June. Also, no new volume of “Eden” is mentioned in here. Vol. 13 didn’t show up until the solicitations in March of last year, so there’s some […]
Daikichi is a thirty-year-old bachelor who returns home for his grandfather’s funeral only to find out that the old man had a love child with an unknown woman. Rin, the child in question, is now six years old and comes off as quiet and solitary with all of the family in the house for her […]
Why yes, this did originally come out back in August. And yes, the reason I’m only getting around to talking about it now is because it completely slipped under my radar until I saw vol. 10 in the Dark Horse solicitations a while back. So if nothing else, this should prove that the company’s first […]
It’s a brand new year and what better way to ring it in than by talking about a manga that was originally published in 1983! Not only that, but it’s also something I picked up for four bucks in a sale earlier this month. Before anyone makes any jokes about me getting what I paid […]
… but actually it did. I’m saying this because Naoki Ursawa’s “20th Century Boys” is now a #1 New York Times bestseller. This is probably a one-week thing, but it’s still something I never thought I’d see even after the chart craziness of the past few months, let alone when it first came out. So […]
These two get put together because it would be a very short column for one or the other in any given month. Also of note is the fact that all trade paperbacks from Dark Horse are always advance-solicited, so all the trades mentioned here will be coming out in May. With that in mind… Dark […]
Osamu Tezuka’s proto-shoujo epic wraps up much as it began. In this second volume, the mangaka continues to churn through story concepts — Franz finding out Sapphire’s identity, Prince Plastic getting Sapphire’s boy heart, Sapphire on the brink of death with Captain Blood questing to a foreign land to save — at a shocking pace. […]
Remember when I said that the first volume of this series did a good job of conveying the “inner sadness” of its poor little rich boy protagonist’s life? Well, this second volume proceeds to do just about everything it can to undermine any sympathy I had for the character of Yozo Oba. After the events […]