Manga and Comic Reviews
Even if Slott doesn’t reinvent the wheel with these two volumes, there’s still fun to be had. Vol. 1, “Fourever,” does the dirty work of getting the family back together after years of corporate-mandated separation. Reed, Sue, Valeria, Franklin, and the Future Foundation’s efforts to rebuild the multiverse come to an abrupt, and needlessly harsh, […]
That’s right, we’re now living in a world where “All-Rounder Meguru” comes out at such a pace (quarterly) that I can wait to review two volumes at once. Of course, that approach presents its own problems as we progress deeper into the current tournament arc. Meguru has a shot at making it to the finals, […]
Two volumes in and there are certainly things I like about Scott Snyder (and James Tynion IV’s) run on “Justice League” so far. Chief among them is the fact that each volume is a smaller part of a much larger story that’s being told. We can see that in the opening issue which follows Luthor’s […]
Sadly, this isn’t the volume where we get to see Hulk punch Mephisto in the face. The “hell” that Hulk and the rest of the cast were pulled into at the end of the previous volume is a more desolate place which is filled with the talking shells of the dead people closest to them. […]
While I have yet to read the actual issue where Peter Parker revealed that he was Spider-Man to longtime antagonist J. Jonah Jameson, I have to admit that this development has worked out really well in the “Spider-Man” series I do read. Rather than broadcast this secret to the world, Jameson has since become the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Harleen #1 I was very tempted to pick something else for this spot, until I realized that I’d rather wait to read that in softcover. Even though I’ll be waiting to read this new Black Label miniseries when it’s collected I’ll be buying it when it comes out. Regardless of whether it’s in […]
In news I didn’t think I’d read anytime soon, Dark Horse announced at the Anime Expo panel today that they’ll be publishing new volumes of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.” The series, about a group of mostly unemployable college students who make ends meet by taking jobs from dead people, has been on hiatus since […]
It’s not that I don’t get what ONE and Yusuke Murata are going for in this volume. They’re pitching Garo’s struggle against the members of the Hero Association who come to take him in as something noble that turns tragic. That his desire to stand up to inevitability is something to be admired. I get […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rumble #16 Wait, WHAT!? That’s right, #15 isn’t the last issue of this series. I keep expecting the hammer to come down with each arc, but I’m glad to be proven wrong here. There’s a catch with this latest issue, however. It’s the start of an anthology arc featuring short stories about the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man: Life Story When Spider-Man debuted in 1962, Peter Parker was 15 years old. 57 years later and he’s… what, twenty-something in his comics right now? Yes, aging does work kind of funny in superhero comics that have been published continuously for that long. But what if Spider-Man had aged in real time […]