Manga and Comic Reviews
“The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia” has been the biggest-selling project to come out of Dark Horse in recent memory. Two years after its release, it still makes the list of bestselling comic-related books on Diamond’s charts. The problem is that despite all of its success, it’s still a book that originally came from Nintendo, […]
Vol. 7 wastes no time in picking up where the peasant army left off in their siege of the castle of Schwyz. If you’ve enjoyed mangaka Mitsuhisa Kuji’s depiction of medieval siege weaponry and tactics, then she has a lot more to offer up here. We get to see the peasant army, led by the […]
While the overall quality of their licensed comics has tended to be generally quite good over the years, it’s still somewhat rare to see a “name” creator on one of them at Dark Horse. So when it was announced that Greg Rucka would be writing the “Magekiller” miniseries set in BioWare’s “Dragon Age” universe, it […]
Stop me if this sounds familiar to you: A blowhard businessman decides to run for president and wins the hearts of millions with his straight talk while offending even more with his rhetoric and poor temperament. That’s the setup for “Citizen Jack,” but its protagonist, Jack Northworthy, has one thing in his corner that Trump […]
For the freshman finals at King’s Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts, all of the rats must die. This includes series protagonist Marcus, his goth girlfriend Petra, and former friend turned current ally Billy. Their race to survive all the teen assassins coming for their heads stands as some of the most thrilling storytelling that […]
The best part about the first two volumes (we’re not counting “Vader Down” here) of Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s “Darth Vader” title is how it presents the title character in a diminished state with a struggle before him, and still presents this Dark Lord of the Sith as an uncompromising badass who is not […]
It becomes clearer to me with each passing volume that there is nothing more to be done with the concept of sequential art as a medium after this. Yes, all writers can stop writing, artists can stop drawing, and all inkers, assistants, colorists, and letterers can lay down their tools in the face of the […]
Bond’s film status has seen better days recently, with the relative creative disappointment of “Spectre” and the ongoing drama of whether or not Daniel Craig will return to the role. (If Idris Elba doesn’t want to do it, then the oft-rumored Tom Hiddleston would be a good second choice.) Fortunately, Warren Ellis is on hand, […]
All good things must come to an end, and this represents the last of writer Tim Truman and artist Tomas Giorello’s work on “Conan.” This being comics, that could change in a couple years, but the way Truman thanks everyone he’s worked with on the character over the years in his afterword really makes it […]
It took them a while, but Marvel has finally gotten around to delivering a miniseries set in the prequel era. A lot of people think that mining the era of the much-derided “Prequel Trilogy” is a bad idea given how it automatically invokes (bad) memories of these films. I disagree. The very best “Star Wars” […]