Manga and Comic Reviews
By the time the first Ultimate Universe got around to doing an “Ultimate Wolverine” miniseries, the character was already dead and it focused on his son Jimmy Hudson. I, and a lot of other people, didn’t bother with it because who the hell cares about Jimmy Hudson? Marvel isn’t making that mistake this time around […]
While Kentaro Miura’s masterwork “Berserk” is the series that he’s best known for, it’s not the only manga he was responsible for in his lifetime. He previously collaborated with writer Buronson on “King of Wolves” and “Japan” while also delivering the one-volume “Giganto Maxia” late in his career. The man had ideas for many more […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: John Constantine: Hellblazer by Paul Jenkins & Sean Phillips Omnibus HC While runs before (Delano & Ennis) and after (Ellis & Azzarello) it were collected first, this one didn’t get that treatment for a good long while. I don’t know exactly why that was, but it didn’t deserve that neglect. Jenkins took the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Farmhand vol. 5: The End It’ll have been three years since the previous volume was released by the time this one is scheduled to arrive. That’s a long time to be waiting for anything, but after how good vol. 4 was I’m just glad we’re getting this at all. While creator Rob Guillory’s […]
Last time, the series took a volume-length detour to follow (really) young Jonathan Harker’s trip through the Transylvanian countryside to meet with Count Dracula on behalf of the Whitby School. What he found there was the cutest and fluffiest version of the Count yet put to page. Vol. 5 picks up from the end of […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly Billed as vol. 10 in Dark Horse’s series of comics based on “The Witcher” games – vol. 3 of the omnibus collecting the previous ones is also solicited here – it’s also the first one I’m planning to buy. Not because these have a bad reputation […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel Knights: The World to Come HC The Black Panther, T’Challa, is dead, but who will succeed him as the King of Wakanda? That the claim is made by his son Ketema seems reasonable enough, except for one thing: Ketema is white! How the hell did something like this happen? I don’t doubt […]
The Jonado Trust was left a shambles after the events of the first volume, but its former EN.VOI, Joy and Hampton, the EN.VOI living in her head, are doing all right for themselves. Joy’s family has had to decamp to the Peachtree Trust, but they’re making do even as its leader is secretly trying to […]
I may be warming up to writer Deniz Camp’s superhero work (slightly), but his creator-owned stuff is another matter. His breakout miniseries at Image, “20th Century Men” with artist Stipan Moran, was a boring and disappointing take on Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan that wound up being the worst thing I read that year. Still, the […]
Not only did they not fix the world at the end of vol. 1, but the Ultimates wound up needing a lot of fixing themselves – Iron Lad chief among them. So after taking some time to get their heads back on straight, they’re back in the fight in all of its myriad forms. From […]