Manga and Comic Reviews
For around half of its length “Rome West” presents a fascinating alternate history of North America courtesy of co-writers Justin Giampaoli and Brian Wood, and artist Andrea Mutti. It starts with a just likely enough to be believable development when a Roman fleet is caught in a storm and its survivors wind up landing on […]
Leonardo Watch is about to face his biggest challenge yet as a member of Libra. It starts off with his sister breaking the news that not only is she getting married, she’s coming to visit him in Hellsalem’s Lot with her fiancee in tow. The good news is that said fiancee, Toby McLachlan, looks to […]
At the end of vol. 1, Adrian Padilla looked like he had been freed of the demonic presence that had haunted his past life as cultist Gregory Sutter thanks to a hypnotherapist who knew what she was doing. Then, before he could turn himself in and let the cops sort things out, he was kidnapped […]
It’s been great to see Miles Morales become a significant part of the Spider-mythos over the years. Not only has he been embraced by fans, but he’s also found his way into mainstream culture as well — he’s appearing in the “Spider-Man” game coming out next week and has the lead role in the “Into […]
Given how he’s such a pivotal character in the “Hellboy” mythos, you’d think that we’d have received a miniseries spotlighting Rasputin long before now. Well, despite what this volume says on the cover “The Voice of the Dragon” isn’t really a story about him. Rasputin’s in it, but co-writers Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson should’ve […]
If you were hoping that the lesbian psychodrama which provided the high point of the previous volume would continue in some way here, then you’re going to be disappointed. The good news is that the sexy shenanigans of this volume are some of the best this series has offered up in recent memory. It starts […]
Ever since the final pages of the first volume teased that we’d be getting a racially-charged gender-swapped revisionist take on the “one man cleans up a crooked town” storyline, I’ve been waiting for this series to make good on it. Volumes one and two did a good job laying the groundwork, but while the individual […]
Doctor Jonathan Shipwright has just survived a shipwreck. Nevermind the fact that when we first meet him he’s staring up at some birds from his back on a dusty road. We learn about his situation when he has a conversation at a broken-down diner with a yellow-coated inspector who gives the impression that he knows […]
Lately, writing out these Previews Picks entries every month has felt more like a grind than a fun diversion from all the reviews I write around here. So this month I’m going to try something new. Below the link are my thoughts on the most notable solicitations from DC, Dark Horse, Image, and Marvel as […]
Aphra’s creator, Kieron Gillen, is credited as a co-writer on this arc, but the story here does feel more like the work of incoming co-writer Si Spurrier. That’s not a bad thing as Spurrier has done some great work at Marvel and other publishers in the past and here he seems to be focused on […]