Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman: Heroes #1 This is a one-shot featuring a stellar cast of creators: Bendis, Greg Rucka, Matt Fraction and Jody Houser share writing duties, while Kevin Maguire, Steve Lieber, Mike Perkins, and more provide the art. So what kind of event would bring all these creators together? Nothing more than exploring the fallout […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus vol. 5 Longtime readers should not be surprised to see this volume here. At all. For those of you who’ve joined us more recently, “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” is one of the best manga published by Dark Horse. It’s about a group of unemployable college students […]
The first seventy-two pages of this volume have something you don’t normally see a lot of in manga: COLOR. Artist Kenji Tsuruta painted these pages himself and they look pretty great. It’s a lush vision of a rural mountain area which has an inn and a pond nearby. It’s by this pond that Atsushi, who […]
Okay, so it’s been… *goes to check the publication date on vol. 2* TEN YEARS since the last volume of this series was published?! I guess I should be glad that only two volumes were published before now. If more had been released, and then we’d been hit with a ten-year gap between volumes, I’d […]
Here it is, folks: The storyline that led to Tom King getting kicked off “Batman.” Don’t worry about him too much. He’ll be finishing his storyline in the “Batman/Catwoman” maxiseries with his “Sheriff of Babylon” and “Mister Miracle” collaborator, Mitch Gerads. It’ll still be short of the 100-issue run that he had planned to have […]
The first two volumes of this series were good, fun riffs on the kind of sword and sorcery action made famous by “Conan.” This one digs a bit deeper into the title character and his world as we start by finding out that the death of Zhaania in the previous volume really got to him. […]
Big Red’s name may be in the title, but he’s almost an afterthought in this volume. That’s because it’s all about exploring what else was going on with the B.P.R.D. during his ill-fated trip to Mexico. Margaret is busy running the day-to-day operations of the organization while Professor Bruttenholm has secrets kept from him by […]
The story goes that one night “The Immortal Dragon” broke up ten rival Yakuza factions in one night. Barehanded. Then he disappeared without explanation the following day. What could cause such a man to walk away from the Yakuza life? Why, to walk the path of the househusband of course! Tatsu found the right girl […]
Warren Ellis and Jason Howard decided to take a break before they dove into the third and final volume of “Trees.” I also believe it was Howard who told Ellis that he wanted to do something with a lot more action. Thank god he did because the end result is likely going to be the […]
*Looks at “to review” pile.* *Looks at “to read” pile.” Yeah, there’s a lot in each right now. You know what makes up a lot of the former? Marvel titles! So let me throw out my thoughts on the latest volumes of “X-23,” “Black Panther,” “Immortal Hulk,” “Captain America,” and “Domino.” Credit where credit is […]