Manga and Comic Reviews
Here’s another title that you can add to the ranks of volumes where I started reading them before I went to bed and wasn’t able to stop until I had reached the end. I had my doubts about the setup for this volume, coming so close on the heels of “Return of the Purple Man.” […]
A writer and artist will team up for each issue to take Jack Kirby’s “Last Boy on Earth” on an adventure that will end in a cliffhanger for the next creative team to solve. That’s “The Kamandi Challenge.” If that doesn’t sound like a recipe for a good story, then you’d be correct. Most of […]
It’s not usually an issue to determine what the flaws are in the comics that I read. Some suffer from characters who lack depth or act in dumb, logic-defying ways to serve the story. Others have stories whose twists weren’t clearly thought out beyond the idea of trying to surprise the reader. There are also […]
Hope may have died in the previous volume, but Luke, Leia, Han, R2, and Threepio are still alive and kicking. Unfortunately, even help from ace smuggler Sana Staros isn’t enough to get them through Imperial space undetected. Now they’re stuck on the isolationist moon of Hubin home to Clan Markona. They’re an easygoing bunch of […]
Nathan Bright doesn’t quite have it all, but what he does have is pretty good. He’s the most popular weatherman on Mars thanks to his wacky personality and crazy on-air antics. So while fame and fortune are his, he’s got a personality that doesn’t really encourage the ladies to call back for second dates. This […]
Well, Wizord and Ruby Stitch had a good run in our world but it looks like it’s coming to a very violent end. It’s all down to the return of vengeance-seeking Frenchman — now with magic of his own — Jacques Zaques. While his initial attack doesn’t go quite the way he was expecting, Jacques […]
I’ve always wondered what “Murcielago” would look like when it finally shed its constant desire to shock, titillate, or disturb the reader. With vol. 10, I finally have my answer. More than that since it also sheds any attempts at (ridiculous) over-the-top action like we saw in the previous volume. It all starts when Kuroko, […]
Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Even when that thing is seeing privileged, arrogant, and condescending icy blonde white schoolgirls put in their place? I realize that’s a rather specific categorization, but it’s wholly appropriate to this “Empowered” spinoff volume. As the title implies, it’s a team-up between Emp and […]
Much like the first volume Jimmy’s Bastards vol. 2: What Did You Just Say? is one of the writer’s better recent comedic efforts. This doesn’t mean that it’s particularly funny, unless the sight of seeing an insane Sean Connery-alike humping someones leg or men walking around with ginormous breasts sends you into irrepressible giggle fits. […]
For a series where the majority of its first volume built up the mystery of the place known as The Black Barn, it took some real guts from creators Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino to actually show off what it was in the same volume. Now that they’ve done that, what does the series have […]