Manga and Comic Reviews
Doctor Chelli Aphra is the “Star Wars” equivalent of Indiana Jones with more flexible moral standards. When given such a character to write you’d think that most writers would settle for having her find a lead on an old Jedi/Sith/Republic artifact and come up with some clever moral/physical complications for her to overcome in pursuing […]
The Odinson may be back on the job as Thor, but he’s still without a Mjolnir. Good thing that he’s got his friends in the League of Realms to make him all the hammers he needs. He’s going to need them too after Loki shows up with an offer to send him right where he […]
Nick Spencer and Ryan Ottley delivered a solid reason to keep reading “Amazing Spider-Man” in the post-Slott era with the previous volume. Ottley is off for this volume and veteran Spider-artist Humberto Ramos is on for this volume, but he and Spencer keep the good times rolling here. He gets on my good side almost […]
Why is it time for another one of these? Even after doing this I’ll still have enough manga to write about for the next month. That’s also not taking into account that my “to buy” list has almost reached critical mass before I make another order through The Right Stuf. So sit back and enjoy […]
“Rogue & Gambit: Ring of Fire” was one of last year’s most pleasant comic surprises in that it managed to make the title characters’ romance seem interesting again. To the point that their surprise wedding in the pages of “X-Men: Gold” actually made a certain amount of sense. Now they’ve got their own ongoing series […]
Writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente have some interesting ideas about what to do with Sabretooth in these volumes. They start with having him lead the team on a mission to Russia that has the feral one tangling with none other than Omega Red. He actually manages to strike up a bond with the […]
Thanks to the magic of (limited) press passes, John, Myron, and myself all made the trip down to WonderCon in Anaheim this year. We only went down for Saturday but we were still able to cram in a lot of worthwhile sightseeing, shopping, and panels into the trip. As for the panels, we didn’t get […]
I was under the assumption that seaplane-faring deliveryperson Mikuru Amelia’s quest for the titular island would prove to be as elusive as the next volume in this series. So it’s only fitting that she discovers it shortly into this second volume. Now that she’s finally found it, everything’s great. Right? Well, not only is she […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Heavy Liquid There are a few reasons I’m completely in the tank for any major project from Paul Pope. This is one of them. “Heavy Liquid” was originally a five-issue prestige format miniseries from DC/Vertigo in the late 90’s. It’s about a man known only as S who is hooked on the title […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Miles Morales: Spider-Man vol. 1 — Straight Out of Brooklyn While Miles Morales has been written by other people in the past, his solo adventures were exclusively handled by co-creator Brian Michael Bendis prior to his departure from Marvel to DC. This volume represents the first time another creator will be writing Miles’ […]