Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Legends of the DC Universe: Doug Mahnke HC I’ve always thought of Mahnke as an underrated artist within DC. Even though he’s done quality work on lots of titles over the years, his most high-profile work was on the latter half of Geoff Johns’ “Green Lantern” run about a decade ago. Since then, […]
It’s another war story from Garth Ennis, and not even the last one I’ll read this year: The deluxe edition of “Into the Blue” is currently en route to me. That this is another war story from Ennis should also tell you what you’re in for: A respectful tale of combat grunts trying to do […]
That this comic exists at all is surprising. “The Mask” seemed like a concept that had run its course in the years after the 1994 Jim Carrey film brought everyone’s attention to the comics. If you’re going to revive this property over a decade after the last comic saw print, then you’d best have a […]
According to sales numbers and demand for back issues, this could very well be The Next Big Thing in comics. With orders rising on each issue in a way that we haven’t seen since the earlier days of “The Walking Dead,” this new series from writer James Tynion IV and artist Werther Dell’Edera has clearly […]
This volume arrived on Monday. If I had more foresight I would have had that WTH revelation lead directly into this review, because… Revealing that charismatic Ainu revolutionary Kiroranke was one of the people who assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II certainly ranks as one of the more outrageous backstories in this series. I’d go so […]
Are we done here? Nope! How do you follow up a volume that combined Russian wall-fighting, manly steam baths, and wolverines? By having the majority of it take place at the circus! After an urchin steals one of their bags, Sugimoto’s group tracks him back to Yamada’s Circus who are back in Japan after a […]
Yes, there is a trend here… Given that a not-insignificant portion of this volume is given over to wolverine fighting, I was a little disappointed that nobody tried to sneak in a “The best it is at what it does” joke in the script. Anyhow, an actually significant portion of this volume involves the manly […]
How close am I to the bottom of my “To Review” pile? You’re about to find out… Vol. 13 left off with Immortal Sugimoto about to face down the guards of Abashiri Prison, who were facing the imminent threat of Lieutenant Tsurumi’s forces. In short, that cliffhanger ending promised a volume where all hell broke […]
I talked about the first volume of this series with Rob and Myron almost two months back, and while we had some reservations about it, we generally liked vol. 1. Yes, it’s a world whose level of realism is set at “Bond Movie Featuring Roger Moore,” but it had lots of charm to complement its […]
“Silver Spoon” is a lot of things, including a romantic comedy. Only in the sense that Hachiken and Mikage’s romance has been played for nothing but laughs since the start of the series. However, as the series heads into its final stretch, mangaka Hiromu Arakawa finally has to get around to making them an official […]