Manga and Comic Reviews
I look at my “to review (maybe)” shelf and realize that there are a lot of “next volume in a manga series” taking up the front half of it. You’ve probably noticed there’s a certain trend to when I review manga on this site and it’d take me a solid month to get through some […]
Before I sat down to write this I was preparing to dance around the reveal of the main threat for this second (and sadly, final) arc of “Mercury Heat.” Never mind the fact that it’s spoiled on the back of the volume. Then I went and re-read my review of the first volume and saw […]
I’m convinced that writer Nick Spencer conceived this volume as a final test to weed out the readers who aren’t completely on board with his “Hydra Cap” storyline. How else to explain the “Civil War II: The Oath” one-shot where Cap demonstrates an almost demonic glee as he gloats to a comatose Tony Stark about […]
The Turtles and Usagi have had a long fruitful relationship dating back to the late 80’s when Kevin Eastman asked Stan Sakai if he wanted an Usagi action figure as part of the Turtles’ toy line. Since then Usagi and the Turtles have met up a few times in comics and Usagi even guest-starred on […]
I was hoping that the security measures taken by the community that Hideo and Hiromi joined in the previous volume were just a result of them being cautious in this post-collapse world. Unfortunately it becomes clear very early on that this community is one of those awful quasi-fascist groups run by a crazy person that […]
Even as Nick Spencer gleefully trolls fans over in “Steve Rogers” he manages to tap into the current social zeitgeist in “Sam Wilson” to both entertaining and depressing effect. Vol. 4 is where most of the fun stuff happens as Sam and Steve team up to take on U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M., Sam and Joaquim go to see […]
This volume kicks off with a flashback two-parter featuring some wonderfully brutal art from Rafa Garres about a viking who drank dragon blood to become the Asgardian equivalent of a Hulk. All thanks to Loki, of course. The story hits its familiar notes from the song of Thor/Loki sibling rivalry while the present-day sequences tie […]
The Art of Metal Gear Solid V hasn’t even hit stores yet, but Dark Horse is apparently convinced that it’s going to do good business for them. How good? So good that they’ve announced that The Art of Metal Gear Solid I-IV will be arriving next May. If you read that and thought that they’d […]
The holiday spirit is strong with Image this year. They’ll be publishing three very different comics that spotlight the holiday season and its many attractions and horrors come December. Of the three, I’m looking forward to The Wicked + The Divine Christmas Annual the most as it pairs co-creator/writer Kieron Gillen with an impressive array […]
A quick look through the archives tells me that I skipped reviewing vol. 3 of this series for some reason. Let me tell you now that it continued the title’s upward trajectory with its focus on the Io Fleming-piloted Gundam versus Darryl Lorenz-piloted Psycho Zaku battle. It was a thrilling fight that fittingly ended in […]