Manga and Comic Reviews
The previous volume was my pick for best comic of 2016 for these reasons: It took a storyline that I wasn’t quite sure about — Negan escaping and falling in with the Whisperers — and managed to get some quality material out of it. Then it served up a final-page twist that I did not […]
For the first major Bat-crossover of the “Rebirth” era the creators involved are going all Kaiju Big Battle on us. While the entire Bat-team is getting ready to provide emergency assistance to Gotham as a hurricane bears down on the city things take a turn for the crazy when a giant monster starts barrelling down […]
Greg Rucka’s consistently entertaining, consistently overpriced shaggy-dog P.I. reaches its fourth volume. This time around, Dexedrine Parios’ life takes a turn for the absurd but not ridiculous. She’s hired by Mr. Weeks, a rich coffee enthusiast and maker, to deliver the first pound of his inaugural batch of Wild Thai Civet coffee to him after […]
Honestly, I was worried that the direction of this new arc meant that this title’s best days were behind it. Flipping the premise to put the Shadow Student Council in prison and the boys on the outside felt too obvious a way to mix things up for “Prison School” going forward. The good news is […]
I’ve mentioned before that the best thing Rob Liefeld has done as a comic creator is to let other talented individuals like Brandon Graham and Alan Moore play around with the characters he’s made. However, he’s also responsible for giving a lot of creators and industry people their big break when he co-founded Image back […]
So… Marvel has had kind of a terrible month in terms of PR, haven’t they? From the contents of David Gabriel’s summit with retailers, to the Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian messages hidden in “X-Men Gold” #1, to the ongoing controversies surrounding “Secret Empire,” the comics side of the company is currently going through one of those phases […]
The “Dark Days” prelude continues with “The Casting” in this month’s solicitations, though the main event will kick off next month with “Dark Nights: Metal” courtesy of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. That expectations for this are sky-high after the success of their “Batman” run, but they managed to thrive on going bigger with each […]
We’re going outside Dark Horse’s solicitations for the above-board talk this month. That’s because IDW will be publishing (co-publishing?) a crossover between the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Usagi Yojimbo.” If that team-up sounds like such a natural fit that you’re wondering why they haven’t done this before, then you’re either not old enough or […]
“Blade of the Immortal” certainly had plenty of irreverent moments strewn throughout its thirty-one volumes. In reading mangaka Hiroaki Samura’s other works it becomes clear that’s his default mindset and he was doing his best to suppress it while working on his magnum opus. While such irreverence can get a little wearying at times and […]
James Tynion IV has been working on assorted Bat-titles over the past few years and either co-writing or doing various fill-in issues during Scott Snyder’s run on “Batman.” Now he’s being given his shot at the brass ring as the new writer for “Detective Comics” and has come up with a novel approach for the […]