Manga and Comic Reviews
A couple days ago I wrote about how “The Negative Zone War” over in “X-Men: Gold” didn’t really live up to its title. Among its many problems was the fact that the war in its title didn’t really amount to a skirmish or two before the statue of a god came to life and started […]
Have you ever wondered what it would look like when Rick Remender writes a story that puts his protagonists so far in the red that it doesn’t make sense for them to come out all right in the end, yet they manage to do it anyway? Well wonder no more as “Extinction is the Rule” […]
Yes, those “X-Men” books do keep multiplying and piling up for me to read. The ones that I’m actually interested in following at any rate. So it happens that I picked up three new titles in my last big order of comics. While that includes the latest volumes of flagship titles X-Men: Gold and X-Men: […]
There were times last year where I was worried that I wouldn’t have a manga title to review in a given week. Flash forward to today and now my “to review” pile is positively choked with manga. Which is a good thing as there have been times in the past where, as some series concluded, […]
The second adventure of creator Andrew MacLean’s Head Lopper — Norgal if you’re one of his friends — couldn’t have come at a better time. We’re in the dry period between the end of Dark Horse publishing new comics and Marvel starting up their own take on the adventures of “Conan” that there’s a distinct […]
I get why “Lazarus X+66” is being released as a miniseries rather than an official volume of the main title. Series artist Michael Lark is only providing the covers to each issue while writer Greg Rucka is just co-writing the issues collected here. As both creators have been fully involved with the previous five volumes […]
After my experience with the previous volume I can now say that my biggest issue with this series has now been resolved: Erin is the “new girl,” Tiffany is the gamer girl, KJ is the lesbian with a hockey stick, and Mackenzie is (as always) the bitchy redhead. Now that I’m finally able to keep […]
For a miniseries that effectively heralded the end of the Ultimate Universe, the original “Spider-Men” was still pretty fun. The plot, involving Peter Parker and Miles Morales teaming up to fight a dimension-hopping Mysterio, was pretty inconsequential, but it was still a great demonstration for how Bendis could write Spider-Man in any universe and the […]
I thought that the first two volumes of this series were fun, but a little slight in the storytelling department. The good news is that things get a lot more interesting with these two volumes. After the demonic threat, and affectingly tragic backstory, of the previous volume is taken care of, Johanna and Marion head […]
Kieron Gillen takes over writing duties with this volume and reunites with his “Darth Vader” collaborator Salvador Larroca. Does this mean the main title finally has a chance at approaching the greatness of the now-concluded series that launched alongside it? Despite picking up from where “Rogue One” left off, it’s not quite there yet. Though […]