Manga and Comic Reviews
I talked about the first two volumes a bit at the end of the “Gantz” podcast as they represented a dramatic shift from mangaka Hiroya Oku’s seinen sci-fi action series. It’s still a sci-fi action tale, but one more concerned with how a timid old man, the titular Inuyashiki, adapts to the power granted to […]
After the previous volume saw master thief Conrad “Redmond” Paulson get himself and his family out from under the thumb of Lola, it would appear that our protagonist has finally got everything he ever wanted. Well, except for the fact that his ex-wife still hates him. And, more pressingly, his former partner Celia is still […]
Don’t call it a reboot, because they’ve been to that well a bit too often for that to work again. As DC describes it, “Rebirth” is simply the company getting back to the basics of their characters and focusing on what works best for them. While most of the titles and creative teams weren’t that […]
If the first volume of this series from “B.P.R.D.” co-writer John Arcudi and frequent artist James Harren had one problem, it was the fact that it took a few issues for its point to come into focus. That’s not a problem with this second volume as it quickly brings us up to speed on the […]
There’s a new volume of “Berserk” slated to come out in Japan this summer. If we’re lucky, Dark Horse might be able to put it out in English by the end of the year. Even if they do manage to pull that off, three years will have passed between the release of new volumes of […]
WonderCon will have wrapped up as I post this, but not as I’m writing. Who knows, by the time I come back to this on Sunday maybe I’ll have some interesting Marvel news to write about here. As it stands, on this Friday evening, all we have are a couple panels of creators extolling the […]
This is the month where just about EVERYTHING comes back for another arc. You’ve got titles that I read and was waiting for to return: “Casanova: Acedia,” “Descender,” and “Lazarus.” Titles that I read, but wasn’t sure if they’d be coming back for another volume: “Rumble,” and “Thief of Thieves.” Titles that I haven’t read […]
Meet Bill, Josh, Pete, and Jerry. They’re the members of The Eltingville Comic Book, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing club, experts in their respective fields of geekdom, and some of the most awful and repugnant characters I have read about in fiction in some time. Seriously, they’re personifications of some of fandom’s worst traits […]
The good times continue in this volume as Barbara Gordon finds out that her dad is the new Batman. How does this happen? Well, like any responsible parent, Commissioner Jim Gordon tells his daughter straight up. It’s a nice scene that bucks expectations and leads to some interesting dramatic irony when Nu-Batman meets Batgirl as […]
This is another first volume from Yen Press that only costs $3 digitally on Amazon. Unlike “Handa-kun,” I was left ready for more after reading it and was disappointed to find that the company is letting the release of the digital editions lag behind print. That’s because “Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun” is a charming and funny […]