Manga and Comic Reviews
Abraham Slam! Golden Gail! Barbalien, Warlord From Mars! Col. Weird and Talky-Walky! Madame Dragonfly! They were some of the greatest heroes that Spiral City had ever known and they gave their lives in its defense from the overwhelming multiversal threat of the Anti-God. At least, that’s what everyone believes. What actually happened was that these […]
Mike Mignola and (usually) John Arcudi have done their best over the years to build up the Black Flame as one of the key “big bads” of the Mignolaverse. Unfortunately their best hasn’t been good enough in this case. Sure, the Black Flame was big, fearsome, and had those all-important Nazi connections, but he was […]
This is the volume where everything hits the fan. Makoto’s plan to get Nora to help him and the newly-turned Yuuki hits a big snag when she tries to kill him. She smells “a deep black scent” on him and tells Makoto that he’ll be doomed if he continues to hang around with this guy. […]
With the return to old-school single-issue goofiness of “Friends and Foes” over with, Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier get back to the business of mixing topical social commentary with the dumb antics of the title character. While they’ve tried this approach to great effect in previous miniseries, particularly with their take on the banking crisis […]
Image’s own magazine “Image+” gets its second volume in these solicitations. Normally that wouldn’t be newsworthy, except they’re continuing the trend started in the previous volume of offering exclusive comics with each issue. The first volume had “Here’s Negan!” spotlighting the origins of the character from “The Walking Dead” courtesy of creators Robert Kirkman and […]
I got the feeling while reading this graphic novella that the main reason it exists is because Mike Mignola wanted to work with Gary Gianni more than anything else. The story itself is fairly slight as it involves Hellboy sailing off the island at the end of “Strange Places” and finding himself prisoner on a […]
The integration of characters from “Watchmen” with the DC Universe is going to take another large step later this year with “Doomsday Clock.” This four issue miniseries from writer Geoff Johns, his first full writing gig since the DC “Rebirth” special, and artist Gary Frank will have the superman of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ […]
Have I mentioned how glad I am that Dark Horse is publishing this series in a two-volumes-in-one omnibus format? Because I’m glad that Dark Horse is publishing this series in a two-volumes-in-one omnibus format. There’s no denying that this series works on a very slow burn, to the point where it feels like not a […]
The first batch of “Generations” one-shots, specials that feature legacy Marvel heroes teaming up with the originals, rolls out this month. Whether or not it’ll help bring back lapsed fans into the fold is anyone’s guess, but current fans should come away satisfied. That’s because you’ve got the likes of Jason Aaron writing current and […]
“Dark Horse Presents” is comics longest-running anthology series and has been host to many legendary characters and creators over the years. Its original incarnation lasted a whopping 157 issues, a subsequent online relaunch on failed social networking site MySpace lasted for 36, while its second print incarnation ran for another 36. The current run of […]