Manga and Comic Reviews
I know what you’re all thinking: Between this and “Lando: Double or Nothing” which is the better comic inspired by “Solo: A Star Wars Story?” Wait. You weren’t asking that? None of you were asking that!? Well, I guess it’s not hard to guess why, especially after this miniseries doesn’t really tell us anything that […]
If you don’t think that Margaret Atwood can do whatever she wants at this point in her career, then consider this: She’s following up her science-fantasy series “Angel Catbird” with “War Bears,” an intimate look at the Canadian comics scene during WWII. We see it through the eyes of one Alain Zurakowski — half Quebecois, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Curse Words vol. 5: Fairy-Tale Ending Is it a series about a really bad wizard learning to become a good one? Or just one who can downplay his worst impulses to get what he wants? Or is it none of the above? Vol. 4 left off with Wizord at the mercy of those […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immortal Hulk vol. 5: Breaker of Worlds Collecting issues #21-25, the last of which is also featured in these solicitations. It’s also given a rather final-sounding solicit as the story is described as taking place at the heat death of the universe. No points for guessing who’s there to see the Ninth Cosmos […]
On its own terms, this is probably the most entertaining “Mars Chronicle” has been so far. It starts off with a thrilling and creative fight between bounty hunters Dass and Gillum before segueing into the inevitably tragic end of Yoko’s mom/nanny Kyoko. There’s a bit there that chillingly illustrates how much of a psychopath Erica […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey #1 (of 8) I didn’t expect this: Matt Wagner is returning to his other signature creation to push it forward. After the prose/illustrated novel “Past Prime” took “Grendel” to its farthest point in the future, Wagner left it there for a decade. He spent that decade looking into the past […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sandman Universe Presents: Hellblazer #1 Oh, it’s a new series from DC featuring John Constantine… Wait, it’s under “The Sandman Universe Presents” banner. So that means it’s a Mature Readers book that’s going to take place in the same shared continuity as the long-running “Hellblazer” series! And it’s even going to be […]
Marvel’s “Endgame” victory lap and its unveiling of “Phase 4.” The future of “The Walking Dead” on TV and on film. The final “Game of Thrones” panel with the cast. I went to none of the panels that featured these things. As is the case with all of the Comic-Cons that I attend, my focus […]
You know, I think you’ve got to go all the way back to the reign of Yoshimune — maybe Ieshige if you’re being generous — to find a time when it felt like the good women and men of this series weren’t constantly behind the eightball. Since then it’s felt like things have steadily become […]
I wasn’t expecting to say that Gabriel Hardman, who helped give us the underwhelming “Star Wars: Legacy” sequel series, would give us a better “Aliens” series than James Stokoe, but here we are. “Dust to Dust” is a kid’s-eye view of a Xenomorph outbreak on a far-off colony planet. Young Maxon wakes up to chaos […]