Manga and Comic Reviews
When Disney acquired Lucasfilm and kicked the “Star Wars” Expanded Universe to the curb, Grand Admiral Thrawn immediately rose to the top of everyone’s lists of characters who they expected to see re-incorporated into this new continuity. It’s not hard to understand why as he was the main antagonist of Timothy Zahn’s “Heir to the […]
I didn’t mention this in my review of the latest volume of “Star Wars,” but these two volumes represent a stealth crossover between the two titles. Where “Mutiny at Mon Cala” shows us how the planet and its people came over to the Rebellion’s side, “The Burning Seas” gives us the story of how their […]
If this series sticks to the estimated number of issues the story was planned to run from creators Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta, then it should be wrapping up in the next two volumes. You’d expect the series to start ramping up the tension and action as its many players start to converge and make […]
The first few chapters in this volume are set in Belgium and are veeeeeery foreshadow-y. Specifically in regards to what the endgame of this virus might be, and I hope it’s not as much like “The Human Centipede” as it’s made out to be here. Then things finally shift back to Hideo, Oda, and the […]
I was prepared to start this review with an “I think I’m done with this series.” Then I read my review of the previous volume and realized that I should be done with it. In buying physical copies at least. I may follow this in digital form via ComiXology sales just to see how it […]
Sometimes a character in a corporate-owned superhero comic book can change. More often than not they don’t and even when they do change, they’ll usually revert back to type in a couple years. Writer Matthew Rosenberg has found a way to turn this trait to his advantage in this miniseries which, going by its title […]
I don’t think that the world was crying out for a third color-coded core “X-Men” title, but here we are. Fortunately the title has a real advantage in that it’s coming to us from writer Tom Taylor after he delivered a very good six-volume run on “All-New Wolverine.” Does Taylor’s first shot at the brass […]
So I was looking at my “to review” pile and saw that there’s an excessively large amount of manga in it. Enough to take me into December if I tackled each volume at my normal rate. Then I remembered that I’ve got another order of manga coming in from The Right Stuf as I write […]
I said in my review of the first volume that, “I’m hard-pressed to see how the second volume improves from here.” Well, I don’t think that vol. 2 is an actual improvement, but the destruction of my expectations after reading vol. 1 at least let me enjoy this one more. Not that it does anything […]
The cliffhanger delivered at the end of vol. 6 was amazing for a few reasons, but mainly because of how it inverted my expectations of the kind of ending I usually expect from Rick Remender’s work. So, do he and artist Wes Craig fully deliver on the promise of the tables being turned on everyone […]