Manga and Comic Reviews
One of the key components from DC’s “Rebirth” initiative has seen them publish fewer individual titles, but double-ship their biggest ones. This is because it’s a far safer commercial bet to publish two issues of “Batman” or “Justice League” than to take a risk on a lesser-known or all-new property. To be fair, DC is […]
It’s official: The anime adaptation of Kohta Hirano’s “Drifters” manga is a hit according to Crunchyroll. It’s the most streamed anime on the site in twenty states, which is a good thing for the manga as well. While the series is currently up to vol. 5 in Japan, we haven’t seen a new volume since […]
Luiza Bora has only one real desire in life: To be part of the police. Unfortunately her personality type is a 57B — someone with an emotionally subnormal response to violence and no aversion to killing. So she’s out of luck working for law enforcement on Earth. Not on Mercury, however. In the far-future world […]
After Vertical showed that there was a significant audience for “Gundam” manga with the consistently entertaining “The Origin” series, it was inevitable that we’d get more manga based off of this venerable mecha franchise released out here. Unfortunately, the first volume of “Thunderbolt” is a disappointingly generic entry that lacks any kind of distinctive storytelling […]
Marvel has been trying to put out a successful “Black Widow” ongoing series for years now. I’ve been immune to their efforts because, prior to this, they had yet to give this series to creators I liked. So when it was announced that the “Daredevil” team of writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee were […]
I didn’t know that I needed to see Laura “Wolverine” Kinney team up with Squirrel Girl. Or, to take on one of Marvel’s more noteworthy giant monsters. That’s what makes the first half of this latest volume a ton of fun. To start things off, it turns out that Wolverine’s plan to ditch her pursuers […]
I found out recently that “Genshiken: Second Season” wrapped up its serialization in Japan. My friend Steve has been keeping up with the scanlations and he let me know that the series has also been fully translated at this point as well. He also dropped the cryptic hint that Saki — the non-otaku member of […]
The title character only makes a brief one-page appearance in this volume as the focus shifts onto the now-fugitive Hiro. He’s currently hiding out with Shion, the girl who confessed to him and was brutally shot down in the previous volume, and it’s not nearly as awkward as I was fearing from the previous volume. […]
What does an old, grizzled, time-displaced version of Wolverine do when he realizes that the version of history he’s in isn’t going to lead to the awful future he came from? “Bordertown” has him going to check on the little girl that eventually grew up to become his wife and making sure that she’s all […]
If you follow my comments about this title over the past several months (or couple of years as it were) in the “Dark Horse Previews Picks” I write, you may have noticed an air of cynicism from me about this title. My main issue with it is how it was marked as an ongoing title […]