Manga and Comic Reviews
There has been a not-insignificant talent exodus within Marvel over the past few years. After the likes of Jonathan Hickman, Rick Remender, Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and more have told the stories they wanted and achieved a certain amount of fame for doing so, they’ve departed for Image to pursue creator-owned work. I believe […]
Last time in “Star Wars” Jason Aaron introduced a promising idea — that of a jail run by the Rebellion — only to drown it under conventional, predictable storytelling and see it written out of the series by the end of the arc. It would be hard for him to do worse after that and […]
Karen Berger is back! The big news coming out of the ComicsPro conference for Dark Horse is that the company will be publishing a new line of comics from the legendary editor. For those of you who might not know who she is, Berger rose to fame at DC in the late 80’s where she […]
Longtime readers have probably picked up on the fact that I’ve got a kind of weakness for manga that tackle foreign places and time periods. So it probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that I picked up the first volume of mangaka Kazuhiro Fujita’s “The Black Museum.” This is actually the second arc in the series, but […]
Save for a short story in the pages of “Thor: God of Thunder,” this is the first time Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera have worked together since completing their excellent Native American reservation-set crime series “Scalped.” That fact alone was enough to get me to give this series a shot. “The Goddamned” is best described […]
We’ve reached the end of Fred Van Lente’s tenure as writer of “Conan” and the best way to sum it up is by saying this: It was certainly a thing that happened. I want to say that his run would’ve been better served by having an arc to it, as was the case with the […]
The late, great Steve Dillon. That’s what the artist is now and this latest volume of “The Punisher” represents the bulk of his final work, with his last issue set to be collected in the next volume. Dillon’s work on the character is iconic with his innate ability to perfectly frame a gunfight, creatively render […]
If you went into this volume expecting to see Lewis, Clark, and their associates take on the legendary “Bigfoot” then you’re not going to be disappointed. In fact, they find themselves up against many sasquatches fairly early on, all thanks to the actions of the explorers who came before them. That’s what sets this volume […]
Do you like lesbians? Do you like mass murderers? Do you like lesbian mass murderers? If you answered yes to all three of these questions then boy do I have a series for you! Yoshimurakana’s “Murcielago” is about Kuroko Koumori, plucked from death row for murdering a ton of people to put her talents to […]
Whether they wanted to be a part of it or not, pretty much every Marvel comic released in the past few months offered some sort of tie-in to “Civil War II.” While this proved to be a sure-fire sales-booster for titles who tied into the original event series, this time around has served as a […]