Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Time to get back to work… How many different versions of Superman’s origin have there been? In my library alone I’ve got copies of John Byrne’s “Man of Steel” reinvention from the 80’s, Mark Waid and Lenil Yu’s maxiseries “Birthright,” and Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s “Secret Origin.” If you’re being generous, you can also […]
From “Transmetropolitan vol. 4: The New Scum:” Prior to his election, Gary “The Smiler” Callahan was shown to be a sociopath who would say and do anything in order to ensure that he became president. It’s worth noting that he eventually got what was coming to him by the end of the series thanks to […]
The first two-volumes-in-one collection of this series remains one of the high points for my comics reading experience this year. Mangaka Kengo Hanazawa found a unique take on the zombie genre by making its protagonist, Hideo Suzuki, a mentally disturbed individual who happens to be one of Japan’s few gun owners. While the first half […]
I’d hoped that this second volume would provide a good setup for more great art from Sean Murphy. As it is, you get the feeling that he gave the first volume his all and was then forced to soldier through this one with the stamina he had left. That’s not to say that there aren’t […]
Sometimes a series is too good to keep down. While sales for the issues collected in the previous volume indicated that would be last we saw of the Dan Slott/Mike Allred run on this title, Marvel decided to give it another go in the wake of “Secret Wars.” This is without a doubt a good […]