Manga and Comic Reviews
Three volumes in and Inio Asano’s latest is finally starting to make some worthwhile strides towards the level of quality I normally expect from his series. It’s really evident once we find out that one of Kadode and Ontan’s friends has died as a result of the latest human/alien skirmish. Seeing the way the girls […]
Tsutomu Nihei is a creator who has been moving ever closer to the mainstream over the course of his career. Looking at his multi-volume series, you get the feeling that after he was fully able to indulge his artistic impulses in “BLAME!” Nihei viewed creating a series with mass appeal as a real challenge to […]
This is easily one of the better volumes of the series. Why? Because it focuses almost exclusively on creator Gamon Sakurai’s greatest strength: His ability to create some kick-ass action scenes. So if you were expecting great things in that regard after Sato infiltrated the JSDF base in the previous volume then you’re going to […]
Grant Morrison and Dan Mora’s revisionist take on the “Santa Claus” mythos was one of the best comics I read back in 2016. This follow-up volume, which collects the two extra-sized one-shots the creators have released in its wake isn’t in the same league. That’s because both are the rare Morrison-written projects where he puts […]
“War Thor?” More like “Edgelord Thor” as he’s presented here. This new Thor, brought into existence after a certain person picked up the Mjolnir of the Ultimate Universe, is all about anger, rage, blood raining from the skies, and vengeance to be visited upon the Queen of Cinders for the deaths she’s caused in the […]
It should be immediately obvious to anyone reading this that without Stan Lee’s contributions to superhero comics this site and podcast would look markedly different. “X-Men,” “Avengers,” “Spider-Man,” “The Fantastic Four,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man,” “Daredevil,” and the list goes on. The characters Stan Lee co-created with artists like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby […]
While the main goal of Sugimoto and co. right now is to get to Asirpa’s father in Abashiri prison, this volume shows that the series is in no hurry to get there as it splits itself into two halves. The first is about our group of protagonists and how they make their way to Sapporo […]
At the end of most Marvel events is a series of epilogues setting up the next big event. DC got into doing that kind of thing with “Metal” which set the stage for this miniseries, which in turn set up the three current “Justice League” titles. While I understand the need to keep the momentum […]
I’ve written before about the long and mutually beneficial series of crossovers between “Usagi Yojimbo” and the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” In fact, you should go back and read my review of their last crossover since my thoughts on it haven’t changed in the intervening year. Though the story wasn’t all that great, it did […]
Ah, it’s a new creator-owned series from Rick Remender. Will it be the kind that relentlessly grinds down its protagonists to the point where it starts being fun (“Deadly Class”), to where you start sympathizing with the antagonist (“Seven to Eternity”), or just plain grinds them down (“Black Science”). If nothing else the answer is […]