Manga and Comic Reviews
There hasn’t been any interesting Image news to comment on over the past month. Which, from a certain perspective, is kind of refreshing compared to the constant stream of drama that comes out of the Big Two. It doesn’t make for an interesting way to begin a column like this, so let’s just dive into […]
He’s not even a month into his tenure as Marvel’s new Editor in Chief but C.B. Cebulski is already dealing with his first major controversy. Namely, the fact that he previously wrote for the company under an assumed Japanese name: Akira Yoshida. The way this happened sounds more amusing/absurd than anything else as Cebulski came […]
In the wake of the “Milk Wars” crossover Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint goes through a familiar rite of passage at DC in this month’s solicitations. That would be the “soft relaunch” as three of its titles are getting new #1 issues and a new miniseries debuts alongside them. Of the group, Cave Carson Has […]
So how about that Disney/Fox merger that just happened? Assuming it goes through it’ll wind up being the biggest entertainment merger ever and likely to have a huge impact on the films and TV we watch. The “X-Men” and “Fantastic Four” joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe might actually wind up being on the low end […]
What kind of dungeon-centric cuisine can you expect to experience in this latest volume? How about broiled kraken parasite — with sauce! There’s also a meal made from grilled bits of kelpie, an undine boiled with tentacles into a stew, tentacle gnocchi with giant frog meat, and porridge that was made from rice floating around […]
Three volumes in and writer Charles Soule is still finding decent, but not spectacular ways to make the pre-”The Force Awakens” adventures of the title character interesting. He succeeds best in the opening story which has Poe meeting up with an old journalist friend, Suralinda Javos, after she tells him about a big story she […]
If there’s one character that Bendis has been most closely associated with during his time at Marvel, it’s been the “Ultimate” incarnation of “Spider-Man.” He wrote every issue of the continuity-free modern update of Peter Parker’s adventures from the start, showed us the character’s death (and eventual resurrection), and gave us a new one in […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first arc on “Black Panther” didn’t really live up to my expectations. Having an extremely talky twelve-issue story to tell where the talk wasn’t especially interesting will do that. It wasn’t bad enough to get me to give up on the series, so here we are now with vol. 3 and Wakanda is […]
Could it be? A volume of “Murcielago” that doesn’t contain anything to aggravate or offend me and focuses only on providing gleefully violent fanservice? Well, you could argue that there’s some transphobia in the representation of the figurehead of the cult at the center of this volume and Kuroko engages in some more questionable behavior […]
For me, and a lot of other fans, Warren Ellis was the defining creator of the WildStorm imprint. While it had a lot to offer followers of great superhero art prior to his arrival, the writing on most of its titles could charitably be described as “total crap.” His debut on “Stormwatch” didn’t change things […]