Manga and Comic Reviews
Dark Horse has partnered up with Nintendo to release several of their gaming art and sourcebooks, including the mega-selling “Hyrule Historia.” One has to wonder when they’re going to take their relationship to the next level and start giving us comics based on these properties. We have an answer now and it is “Fall 2018” […]
I have a confession to make: I’ve never read any of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories. It’s a major failing of mine considering how his work has influenced a lot of what I read, play, and listen to. One of these days I figure to finally sit down and start reading my way through his canon, but […]
I really enjoyed the first volume of this series which had the creators of “Deadpool’s” first solo series, Joe Kelly and Ed Mcguinness, teaming up again to see if they could recapture some of that magic. It was a very funny romp with fantastic art from McGuinness and acknowledged continuity in a way that most […]
Cullen Bunn is one of those writers who has written a lot of comics that I’ve liked, but nothing I’ve been truly passionate about. (Yet, anyway.) “Darth Maul” doesn’t really move the needle regarding my opinion of him as it’s a capable, competent comic that you could buy or skip entirely without any repercussions. There […]
One of the things I was expecting to see from Scott Snyder’s run on “All-Star Batman” was more single-issue stories after the first arc. While the writer did a handful of shorter tales over the course of his run on “Batman,” the majority of his time on that title was spent on blockbuster stories that […]
Why yes, part of my plan for burning through all those titles last week was so that I could talk up the latest volume of this excellent series some more. With the New York Times having divested itself of reporting bestseller lists for manga (and graphic novels in general), there’s no way to tell whether […]
While the title may be there to conjure the same kind of specific nostalgia as “X-Men: Gold,” this is basically the latest iteration of “All-New X-Men” featuring the time-displaced version of the team. Dennis Hopeless’ take on them may have been the most pleasant surprise of the last “X-Men” relaunch, but this new direction from […]
The last time we had an “X-Men” relaunch like this I wrote about how Jeff Lemire’s first volume of “Extraordinary” felt like the welcome kind of nostalgia. That remained somewhat true for the rest of his short tenure on that title before the whole “Inhumans vs. X-Men” business kinda drove it into the ground. Now […]
Launching what is effectively the latest iteration of “X-Force” — violent mutants employing violently morally dubious solutions to violent mutant problems — as a prelude to a crossover doesn’t strike me as the best way to go about things. So I was honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed the issues collected here as Old […]
After years of toiling in near-obscurity turning out quality series like “The Paybacks” writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw finally hit it big earlier this year with their miniseries “God Country.” Now having read it, it’s easy to see why this miniseries caught on the way it did. It’s a textbook example of how […]