Manga and Comic Reviews
Well, the first two volumes had their endings derailed by the old “talking killer” trope. Did writer Antony Johnston go for the hat trick with this third volume of his and artist Justin Greenwood’s sci-fi police series? No he did not, and that just one reason why this is the best volume of “The Fuse” […]
What the hell happened here!? I’ve enjoyed the Brian Posehn/Gerry Duggan run of “Deadpool” for a while now and was looking forward to what the soft relaunch had to offer. Yeah, Posehn was no longer going to be co-writing it, but his real job is as a stand-up comedian/actor. Surely leaving the comic in the […]
Parker Industries has gone global! What was once a struggling startup has now become the hottest new name in cutting-edge consumer technology. After all these years Peter Parker has finally managed to not only have a new business venture that didn’t immediately blow up in his face, but become a worldwide success as well. Also, […]
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the most important Dark Horse manga release of the year. Why is that? Well, let me ask you something: When was the last time you saw Dark Horse release a new manga that wasn’t a) from an established creator, b) a spinoff from a popular anime or videogame, or c) […]
Yeah, it’s been an Image-centric weekend over here. My backlog of their titles just keeps piling up for some reason. I still have the third volume of “The Fuse” to tackle at some point, and I swear I’ll get around to doing either a podcast or a review of the third volume of “The Fade […]
Brian K. Vaughan has said that he tries to work out all of his issues with the world through his comics. So if “Y: The Last Man” represents his thoughts on gender politics, “Ex Machina” is general politics, “Pride of Baghdad” is the Second Iraq War, and “Saga” is parenthood, then what is he dealing […]
Savor this volume because it might be a while before we see the next one. I’d like to think that Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra have invested enough into “The Manhattan Projects” to let things end here. Though it does little to advance the overall story of the many scientists wrapped up in this saga, […]
The relationship at the core of this series gets bit deeper with this volume as we find out about Elias’ history. It’s related to Chise by the mage Lindel who talks about the fearsome entity he encountered one evening that collapsed out of hunger in front of him. Elias’ exact origins are mostly shrouded in […]
In all the years that Dark Horse published “Star Wars” comics, they only ever did one crossover. That was “Vector,” during the time that they were publishing four ongoing titles. It’s actually one of the better crossovers I’ve read if only for the fact that it prompted major advancements to the plots of “Knights of […]
I can see what writer Kurtis Wiebe is trying to do here and it doesn’t work nearly as well as he seems to think it does. After the previous volume left off with necromancer Hannah finding out some distressing news about her father, she and the rest of the Rat Queens head off to Mage […]