Manga and Comic Reviews
I think if I wanted to be a hipster, this is the volume where I would declare that this series is “Over.” That’s right “One-Punch Man” is no longer cool because our hero no longer embodies the title of his series. When an alien spacecraft lands on Earth and proceeds to lay waste to the […]
This penultimate volume doesn’t get off to the best of starts. Sure it shows us Toni Chu in Heaven making nice with Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan, but then it jumps over to showing us Olive Chu’s future career with the FDA. It’s good for some laughs, but its relevance to the main story is […]
It wasn’t all panels, screenings, and checking out places to eat at the con. …Actually on second thought, it really was with my phone and 3DS picking up the slack otherwise. But for the plane trips there and back I had to rely on the comics in my backpack. They were generally quite good and […]
I’m doing my best to shake off the annual bout of post-con depression here. This year’s Fanime didn’t have the depressing lows or thrilling high of the previous one, but it was an awesome experience overall. That’s because there was enough going on between panels, screenings, and visits to the dealer’s hall and artist’s alley […]
I’ve been writing these “Previews Picks” ahead of my trip to Fanime and I’ve been saving this one for last. Mainly because I thought that after nothing came out of Sakura-Con, we’d get some juicy news from Dark Horse Manga at Anime Central this past weekend. As it turned out, they didn’t even have a […]
Well, it finally happened. After years of constant delays/postponements, Marvel has finally cancelled the next two issues of Bendis and Mark Bagley’s creator-owned series “Brilliant.” The first five issues were published erratically over the course of a year and the first volume wasn’t bad. It did, however, end on a note that was clearly meant […]
Originally this was going to be about Geoff Johns’ ascent in the Warner Bros/DC Films hierarchy. The short version was that I generally saw this as a good thing, particularly if it allows for Johns to put his foot down if he didn’t like something that filmmakers were doing with Superman. He has done some […]
It turns out that the third volume of “Rat Queens” did represent the beginning of the end for that series. Just not in the way that I thought it would. While issue #16 came out a couple weeks ago, word came out from artist Tess Fowler a couple weeks ago that she was being pushed […]
Well, vol. 7 really left me feeling that this series had gone off the rails with its focus on Madarame’s Harem. Like all good(?) harem stories, it had several of the series’ female characters positioned as romantic interests for the man but precious little explanation as to why they felt that way. This is even […]
Two volumes in and I’m not feeling as nearly involved as I should be for what’s effectively being billed as the last “ElfQuest” story. Part of that’s due to the large sense of disconnect that comes with jumping into this without being caught up on the saga’s history beforehand. That may change when Dark Horse […]