Manga and Comic Reviews
One of the titles in this month’s round of solicitations either represents a welcome second chance for a series or evidence that Dark Horse needs to re-think the way they promote original titles without a built-in audience. The Once and Future Queen is a modern-day female-centric spin on the Arthurian Legend from writers Adam Knave […]
“Marvel Legacy.” This is the plan that’s going to return the company to creative and commercial dominance in the industry? Based on all of the teasers for the initiative Marvel released last Friday, their plan does not inspire confidence. While some of the plot points teased have promise — just what is Spider-Man going to […]
While I haven’t been actively looking for info on DC’s latest event “Dark Nights,” it’s hard to miss the articles about it which begin with the exclamation that the DCU will be invaded by seven evil alternate-universe Batmen this summer. Honestly, I think it’s a solid setup for the event. If our “good” Batman can […]
I went into this volume with high hopes. While that may sound somewhat delusional given Dark Horse’s, how should I put it, decidedly uneven track record when it comes to “Evangelion” manga there’s actually a reason for it. The “Evangelion Comic Tribute” anthology stands as one of the company’s better publications regarding this legendary anime […]
This latest volume takes the story in two different directions and timelines, which ultimately converge in the end. With the present-day scenes the focus is on the Carlyle-aligned families assault on Western Europe. In the past, we see what happened to Forever after she was brought back from her successful but costly battle in Duluth. […]
I’m going to start things off with a plea for you, the reader (and, say, 3,000 of your closest friends) to go pick up this volume if you haven’t already. Why? Well it turns out that it’s been selling just well enough for its writer, Alex De Campi, to make exactly nothing from its publication. […]
I was looking forward to this in a “just so crazy it might work” kind of way. I mean, it was pitched in Dark Horse’s solicitations as the story of two brothers — Tarzan and Caesar — raised together and then torn apart by the war between man and ape. It sounded ridiculous, but kind […]
Brian Wood and Mack Chater get their new series about an uncompromising woman in a tough situation off to a great start. Grace Briggs is the matriarch of Briggs Land, the largest secessionist movement in the country, while her husband is incarcerated. Now that he’s negotiating a deal with the feds to give up his […]
This is a title that I’ve been wanting to write about for longer than Yen Press’ announcement that they had licensed it for release out here. That’s because I’ve been reading it for quite a while in scanlated form. Regardless of their legality, the main thing everyone needs to consider is that manga creators get […]
Dark Horse is apparently committed to making this latest “Conan” series a fresh start for the character’s ongoing adventures at the publisher. I say this because in addition to a new subtitle, “The Slayer,” they’ve abandoned the standard trade dress and numbering the series has had since its very first volume. While that’s a little […]