Manga and Comic Reviews
With DC dominating its distinguished competition in terms of marketshare for August, was there any good news for the company’s comic sales last month? Actually, yes. Even though Marvel lost considerable marketshare here, its sales were still 40% more than they were in August of last year when “Secret Wars” was still in full swing. […]
To say that DC had a good August would be understating things by quite a bit. The fact that they utterly trounced Marvel in overall marketshare for dollars and comics sold is impressive in itself. What’s really shocking is that the company managed this feat by shipping a third less books than its main competitor. […]
Strig Feleedus is a genetic engineer who is working on a big project for Muroid Inc. It’s a super gene-splicer formula that could have a huge impact on the world as we know it. The bad news is that his boss, Dr. Muroid, is actually a half-rat shapeshifter who wants to use the formula to […]
What, no reviews of the three volumes in the series between this and the first one? Nope. “The Ice Reaper” never really rose above the level of fantasy comfort food in its exploration of the backstory of Kurasame and his companions, collectively known as the Four Heroes of Rubrum. Our protagonist gains greater power as […]
Unless you count the build-up for The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts (featured in these solicitations) then there hasn’t been a lot of Dark Horse-centric news this past month. So I’m giving a special above-the board mention to the debut of a new manga title in these solicitations: Hatsune Miku: Rin-Chan Now! Vol. 1. […]
“Vader Down” notwithstanding, I’ve generally enjoyed Jason Aaron’s work on “Star Wars” so far. The second volume even indicated that we could expect stronger work from him when he’s not bent on bringing in big-gun guest stars like Darth Vader and Boba Fett. With “Rebel Jail” he has an even bigger opportunity to add something […]
In *ahem* researching Joe Kelly’s “Deadpool” run for the podcast, I found that while it had its moments it wasn’t as entertaining as you’d expect from a defining run on a character. I was more entertained by the recent Duggan/Posehn run that managed to mix action, comedy, and drama in a more satisfying fashion. Now […]
I wrote in my review of the first volume of this series that I hoped the issues I had with it could be worked out over the next few volumes. Well, that’s not going to happen as this second volume is also “Starve’s” last. I do wonder if Brian Wood saw the writing on the […]
Regardless of the fact that Saitama doesn’t make good on embodying the title of his series for the concluding half of this battle, his fight against Boros is still a marvel of action spectacle. If nothing else, one has to admire the utter balls of ONE and Yusuke Murata to depict the climactic moment of […]
If what I’ve read is correct, then the next volume of “Hellboy in Hell” represents the end of his saga. I’ll be finding out the specifics of that once “The Death Card” ships next month. It certainly doesn’t mean the end of his adventures in comics form, however. “Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.” appears to be […]