Manga and Comic Reviews
Mangaka Akiko Higashimura has successfully mined the follies of female otaku for comedy and drama over in “Princess Jellyfish.” Now she tries to do the same for Japanese career women of a certain age (read: over 30) who have finally started to realize that their chance to get married has passed them by. Rinko is […]
I have to admit that this volume was a hard one to get through. That’s because it starts off with the title character in such a good place: She’s finally become a full-time member of the SuperHomeys and her relationship with Thugboy is downright shagadelic. Yeah, her self-confidence and body-image issues are still a thing, […]
Bendis’ first series with Michael Gaydos featuring self-destructive former-superhero-turned-P.I. Jessica Jones, known back then as just plain “Alias,” is easily one of the high points of the writer’s tenure at Marvel. It provided a mature, grounded look at the underbelly of the Marvel Universe that not only still reads well today, but paved the way […]
With there being no major title announcements coming out of Comic-Con, I guess all I have to talk about here is Image’s variant theme for October. This time around, it’s tribute covers for “The Walking Dead.” As one of the longest-running and most successful Image titles, I think a stronger argument can be made for […]
Bleeding Cool Rumermonger-In-Chief Rich Johnston seems to think that someone high up at Marvel is up for the chop as a result of all the bad press they’ve been getting lately. Now this is clearly one of Johnston’s less-journalistic efforts as he notes that this is based on whispers he’s heard at Comic-Con and the […]
Yeah… this arrived much, much sooner than I was expecting. It was even part of a Kodansha “Digital First” sale at ComiXology so I was able to pick it up at a discount. As glad as I am that I was able to read vol. 4 of this series, it does cast some shade on […]
I must’ve missed this when it came out but one of the covers to “Dark Nights: Metal” #1 had this fittingly badass illustration of the Justice League posed together in a way that made it look like they were throwing the horns. It’s very metal and Greg Capullo deserves major props for having it come […]
Dark Horse had some notable media announcements during Comic-Con this year with three of its titles receiving TV adaptations. One of them, “Flutter” about a shapeshifting girl who turns into a boy to pursue a girl she likes, I haven’t read. Another, “Mind MGMT,” is one I’m very familiar with and kind of surprised to […]
Some people come back from Comic-Con with stories of the long lines they had to stand in so they could get into the panels they wanted to see. Not me, though. I stayed the hell away from Hall H and the other big media panel rooms and only went to comic-focused panels. So not only […]
True story: I started reading this volume the evening it arrived with the intent to find out how the cliffhanger from vol. 8 would be resolved and to finish up the rest of it tomorrow. A couple hours later, I had burned through the entire thing (and did it again before sitting down to write […]