Manga and Comic Reviews
“Angelic” is just your average coming-of-age story set on an Earth where humanity disappeared a few hundred years back and left the world to their genetically-engineered creations. Chief among them are a race of winged monkeys who are watching over what their makers have left behind though equal parts devotion and religious dogma. Most of […]
The dragon was slain, Falin was rescued, and everyone got a great meal out of the ordeal. All that’s left is for our party to head back to the surface and call it a day, right? NOPE! It turns out that the party’s dragon-slaying attracted the attention of none other than the Lunatic Magician who […]
Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker do their best to give some substance to all the style they demonstrated in the first volume of the series. Much of that comes from the plot thread involving NYPD Detective Theo Dumas and economics professor Dr. Tyler Gaddis. The doctor has found himself in a position to have the […]
The Bendis finale train at Marvel continues on with this volume of “Jessica Jones.” She’s arguably the most important character the writer has created during his time at the company. Not just because of the pretty good Netflix series that was based on her, but mainly because Jessica’s original series did something that’s still relatively […]
When two super-characters decide to tie the knot, the one thing you can expect to come from that decision is drama. Even if the two characters involved have no superpowers to speak of. So with Batman and Catwoman set to get married in two volumes’ time they’ve got to get their houses in order. Actually, […]
The previous volume teased this one as promising the most “taboo” content yet. Given how this series has played out so far, that came off as much of a threat as a promise. While it’s hard to say whether or not this is the envelope-pushing-est volume of the series to date, following one that focused […]
Maybe I should just stop bothering with Garth Ennis’ comedic works. “Sixpack & Dogwelder” was awful, “Jimmy’s Bastards” best bits didn’t involve comedy, and now “Dastardly & Muttley” looks to have been hamstrung by its association with DC’s “Hanna-Barbera Universe.” I may be being a bit generous with that assessment because there are parts of […]
For this second volume Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli set about giving the title character some actual power and showing us the subsequent fallout from that. Things pick up with Vader asserting his dominance over the Inquisitorius and taking a personal interest in their mission to hunt down the remaining Jedi. One such Jedi, a […]
There’s one great moment in this crossover between “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Venom” where the villain Maniac gets his hands on a symbiote and starts spreading it around to build his own criminal empire. It comes after Spider-Man is captured by him at one point and winds up getting mind-controlled by a bit of symbiote to […]
No one writes “Punisher” better than Garth Ennis. His initial run with Steve Dillon brought the character back to basics and showed that he could work in dark comedy situations just as well as straight up action scenarios. Then the MAX run followed and the shift to a mature readers format allowed Ennis to take […]