Manga and Comic Reviews
We’re on to the next major arc in this series. I guess you’d call it the “Grim Reaper” arc as it has the students of Class 3-E taking on the assassin of the same name. Our antagonist for this arc got that title by being kind of assassin you call on when you want someone […]
After a summer of waiting to see who gets killed, the season premiere of “The Walking Dead” came off pretty badly by most accounts. From the extreme violence of the deaths in the episode, to the allegedly manipulative way in which they were revealed, and the general “misery porn” approach taken to most of the […]
Are we in the middle of a Wild Dog renaissance? The character was originally created by writer Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty in the 80’s as a Punisher-esque urban vigilante. History doesn’t seem to indicate that the comics he appeared in during the time could actually be described as “good,” but there was […]
You just never know when it’s going to happen or to whom. Comics lost a master of the form today in Steve Dillon. The exact cause of his death hasn’t been revealed yet, but he was only 54. While he was best known in the U.S. for collaborating with Garth Ennis on “Hellblazer,” “Preacher,” and […]
This latest volume in the series has a lot of the things that have made it a terrifically entertaining read so far. You’ve got amazing art from Jamie McKelvie in full-blown spectacle mode as two factions of the Pantheon repeatedly face off against each other here. While his character work is as good as you’d […]
Hey, guess what I forgot to post on Monday… Makoto Okazaki has it rough. Now, I’m not talking about how he has to deal with the bullies who have made him into their gopher, or how he has to deal with all of his pent-up adolescent sexual urges by himself. I’m saying he has it […]
That we currently have two ongoing series from Warren Ellis after years of miniseries and other short projects from the writer is kind of remarkable. Unfortunately, it’s clear with this second volume of “Trees” that “Injection” is clearly the stronger of the two. Fourteen issues into this series and it still has yet to fully […]
Dark Horse’s publication of videogame related artbooks continues apace in this month’s solicitations with The Art of Mass Effect: Andromeda. “Andromeda” is the first game in the series after the original trilogy and will take the player out of the known universe to set up a colony in the Andromeda system. While I’ll definitely be […]
This is what happens when have a creator who clearly loves “Conan” but doesn’t want to actually do an official story featuring the character. Instead, creator Andrew MacLean gives us a burly, irascible, white-bearded master swordsman who carries around the severed head of Agatha the Blue Witch, and bears the nickname “Head Lopper” for his […]
Brian Wood wrote seven volumes about vikings, Norsemen, and other denizens of Northern Europe in “Northlanders” with only one real dud among them. (That would be the misguided supernatural fantasy of “Metal.”) Even if it’s not an official continuation, fans of that series can essentially think of this series as vol. 8. All of the […]