Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Outer Darkness/Chew #1 (of 3) “Chew” is no stranger to odd crossovers, having already done one with supernatural rural noir “Revival.” The catch this time is that the series is crossing over space, time, and genre to mash up in some way with creator John Layman’s current series “Outer Darkness.” As to how […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men: Grand Design Omnibus The first three hundred issues of “X-Men” are unique among Marvel comics of that length in the sense that the majority of them were written by one person: Chris Claremont. Even then there’s a lot of sprawl in his run and that’s even before you try to reconcile it […]
The descriptive text on the back of this volume says, “Ryoko Kui, the master storyteller behind the beloved manga series Delicious in Dungeon, pens seven brand-new tales that will delight fantasy fans and manga devotees equally.” Half of that sentence is unimpeachable gospel. The other half is a real case of Your Mileage May Vary. […]
The last time I reviewed a volume of this title, I mentioned that Andrea Sorrentino’s art was what really made this series. That continues to be true here in vol. 3 as we follow a couple of different plot threads there. The first and longest of them involves one of the posse who went to […]
In case you were thinking that the appearance of Galactus on Earth, and Doom’s proclamation that he would be the one to save Earth from the Devourer this time, was some kind of cute interruption for the Thing’s wedding that would be quickly handwaved away, you were wrong. “Herald of Doom” indeed has two of […]
Some people think that Spider-Man works best as a teen hero and that letting him grow up in the Marvel Universe was a mistake. Writer Chip Zdarsky may or may not be one of them, but he’s the only writer who thought to ask, “What if Spider-Man grew up along with us over the years?” […]
We get the finale of the Kanto Tournament in this volume and the winner shouldn’t surprise you. Meguru turned the tide at the end of vol. 10 and he continues to press his advantage as he gets into the zone against Muroi. Yet the fact that he wins isn’t the most interesting thing about the […]
Waid has been writing superhero comics long enough that he knows their fans always need to see something new in their series. So when this story implies with its title that he’s going to start working as the latest Herald of Galactus, I was willing to see where the writer would be going with this. […]
“Hunted” is done and now it’s back to the fun stuff. Or, relatively fun stuff in any event. There’s plenty of good times to be had in this volume. Your enjoyment of them, however, will depend on how willing you are to put up with overly cryptic teases for this title’s future. Such as the […]
Bendis’ other “Superman” title got off to a strong start with its first volume. Does his first go at “Action Comics” fare the same? Yes. Yes it does. “Invisible Mafia” makes one thing clear almost from the start: This is going to be the street-level “Superman” book. Where we’re more likely to see Clark Kent […]