Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
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 […]