Manga and Comic Reviews
Mikura Amelia is living the dream as she operates a one-plane delivery service that services the many small islands that fall under Tokyo’s jurisdiction. It’s on one such mission that she gets some tragic news: her grandfather, who taught her the ropes as a pilot, has passed away. While going through his things, Mikura finds […]
The Logan we knew and loved for years is still dead. I imagine he’ll stay that way for a few more years until people really start to miss him (and he’s burned off all that bad karma from killing all of his bastard children towards the end). In the meantime, Marvel doesn’t have just one […]
I know it’s getting old at this point, but there are a lot of Image titles that I follow. To the point where the trade paperbacks I get start to pile up in my review queue after a while. I have things that I want to say about them, but there’s always something newer or […]
I was originally going to write up “Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin” tonight because I wanted something easy. Then I was distracted by this second collection of Ennis & McCrea’s run on “The Demon.” I figured I’d read a little bit of it and then get down to work. Then I read a little more, […]
Hrm… When it was teased that Batman killed for the custom-human-trafficker known as “Mother” because he wanted a Robin more suited for the job than Dick Grayson, I knew it was all a fake-out. As should anyone else who has been reading “Batman,” and superhero comics in general, for a reasonable amount of time. My […]
Akiko Higashimura’s epic of female otaku, fashion, and jellyfish takes two conventional, but not unsatisfying, turns in its second volume. The first is that the standard shojo manga love triangle starts to become a bit more codified here. Dowdy jellyfish-lover Tsukimi really does have the hots for crossdresser Kurano’s handsome, responsible, and utterly inept in […]
Wonder twins Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon are back and this time they’re adapting a short story from Neil Gaiman. Dark Horse has made a small cottage industry of getting top-flight creators — John Bolton, P. Craig Russell, and Michael Zulli — to adapt shorts from Gaiman over the years, and “How to Talk” is […]
Yeah, there were lots of interesting comics titles announced in the run-up to Comic-Con from Marvel. I liked the fact that Al Ewing’s “Avengers” titles will be continuing on in “U.S.Avengers” and “Ultimates [Squared].” The idea of the new “Champions” series being made up of teen superheroes opposed to the events of “Civil War II” […]
Here is where we take a break from any long-term story threads this title has been nurturing. Anyone expecting to learn more about Chise and Elias’ pasts, the mage school that approached Elias in the previous volume, or what that evil alchemist from the first couple of volumes is up to will have to wait […]
Yup, fine. Between driving down on Friday and hanging out with Steve afterwards and on Saturday, I probably spent less time at the con than I have in past years. There was still plenty of rummaging through the half-off bins as well as the four panels I attended, and fun was had in these activities. […]