Manga and Comic Reviews
The series that ranked as my “Best of 2018” comes around for its latest volume and things couldn’t be better, right? Not quite. Things start off promisingly enough with a flashback to better, but still very murderous, days for Kretchmeyer back home and in Baltimore before segueing into the team-up from hell. That’d be the […]
I talked about the first volume of this series in the “On Horror” podcast. The short version is that while this horror-infused “Hulk” title isn’t scary, writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennett are still doing great, creative work best evidenced by one of its key revelations towards the end. That would be the fact […]
As the latest volume in Tom King’s “Batman” run, there’s not a whole lot of the title character written by the writer in it. Three issues from the main series and a four-page short from the “Secret Files.” That’s it. In fact, this is the first volume where a writer other than King, Tom Taylor, […]
Kelly Thompson writing both Hawkeyes again with Gwenpool, Quentin Quire, and America Chavez in tow, and Stefano Caselli providing the art! SOLD! …aaand it’s gone. That’s right, this latest incarnation of “West Coast Avengers” is a lame duck with its first volume after having been given the axe with issue #10. Which is TERRIBLE since […]
We’ve known for quite some time that the tendrils of the Nanyang Alliance under Sojo Levan Fu have infiltrated the Federation and Zeon forces. What this volume makes abundantly clear is just how for that infiltration extends. Things start off in a lighthearted fashion with the Federation forces headed towards some down time after successfully […]
Alright, so that first volume of “Domino” left some room for improvement as it shifted between intense character drama and freewheeling action-comedy less-than-gracefully. This volume is an improvement in that regard as it focuses more on the latter than the former and the experience is a lot more enjoyable for it. It opens up with […]
Here’s what I’m pretty sure is the last collected edition featured in the “Great Color Cull” of “X-Men” titles from last year. It also makes a better case for itself this time around as the talk of changing the world takes a backseat to some well-crafted superhero action courtesy of writer Tom Taylor and artists […]
The first volume of “Oblivion Song” was disappointing in that it didn’t offer me anything I hadn’t seen before, let alone any real surprises. This second volume actually does offer up one real surprise in that it wraps up the main story thread a lot sooner than I was expecting. I figured we’d be dealing […]
More than any other, this is the volume I’ve been waiting to re-read once it was announced that the “Silver Spoon” manga had been licensed for U.S. release. That’s because it finally introduces one of the most significant characters to the main story: Hachiken’s Dad, Kazumasa. (Really, it should be Yuugo’s Dad since Hachiken is […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Criminal: Bad Weekend HC When I was talking about the two-issue “The Orville” miniseries in the Dark Horse Previews Picks, I mentioned that you could make a collection out of a two-issue miniseries. It’s effectively price-gouging your audience, especially if you put it in a hardcover, but you could do it. Now, guess […]