Manga and Comic Reviews
If nothing else, I have to give “Gantz: G” this: It has managed to crawl its way up from the creative bankruptcy of vol. 1 to display something resembling competence in its third and final volume. We lose no time picking up from vol. 2 and the death of Fujimoto at the hands of the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: WildCATs #1 (of 6) This shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been reading this blog for any length of time. Warren Ellis may be wrapping up “The Wild Storm” in a few months, but he’s not done with his new take on the Wildstorm Universe. We were already reintroduced to the new Wild Covert Action […]
Logan is back! And his first order of business is taking out the evil organization known as Soteira whose leader, Persephone, has manipulated his death to their advantage. Writer Charles Soule pretty much plays it straight here, giving us a(n only mildly) amnesiac Wolverine who has to reconnect with his lost memories in a way […]
Readers with long memories (or ones with the ability to click this link and scroll to the bottom of the page) may recall that I was originally planning to make a podcast out of this volume. If the fact that you’re reading my review of it now suggests that something has gone wrong, well, it […]
We got a lot of little indications in the previous volume that things were not so great in the Commonwealth. What made them interesting, however, was that it wasn’t clear whether or not they were indications that the largest community we’ve seen in the series yet was actually a dystopia or just a lot closer […]
Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama’s boss, Reigen, may be an unscrupulous exorcist with no real psychic powers to speak of, but he’s got one real redeeming feature. Which would be the fact that he does good by his sole employee and tries to instill in him a sense of morality about how he uses his powers. Not […]
Luna Brewster is troubled. Troubled in a way that’s dangerous for her and those around her. She’s visions of hurting those closest to her and hears a voice that tells her to do these things. Luna has kept all this from her parents and the well-meaning school counselor who’s dealing with her own issues as […]
John Lynch travelling across America to warn the subjects of genetic experiments performed on them while he was director of International Operation. That was the general gist of the solicitations for the issues collected in these volumes. Anyone familiar with the Wildstorm Universe who read them, however, could easily see that this was going to […]
So I looked at the titles in my “to review” stack and realized that some of them have been there for quite some time. In fact, it’s been over a month since I made a bulk order of new comics. Time to fix that, but what to do about the stuff I’ve been wanting to […]
This is a volume of two halves, one of which is considerably more problematic than the other. The first half introduces us to another group of survivors living out of an office building and led by the implausibly charismatic Asada. He’s set up his own cult of personality called Asada-ism which he wants to spread […]