Manga and Comic Reviews
With his signature creation, “The Goon,” appearing to have gone off the rails in its most recent outing, I was wondering if creator Eric Powell’s best days were behind him. “Big Man Plans” proves that this isn’t the case. It’s the story of an unnamed dwarf who goes through life suffering every indignity and cruelty […]
A somewhat rare work in the Mignolaverse these days in that it’s written by the man himself without the assistance of a co-writer. This miniseries shows what happened to Frankenstein’s Monster after we last saw him in “Hellboy: House of the Living Dead.” As it turns out, he met an old woman in the jungles […]
Once again, this review of latest volume of Greg Rucka’s private investigator in Portland series is brought to you courtesy of a 30%-off coupon from Amazon (in addition to the discount already offered by the site). I think this is a good series. It’s just not good enough to get me to pay the full […]
Um… yeah, this volume was a surprising misfire for me. Mainly because I’ve been enchanted by mangaka Kaoru Mori’s works for years and this is the first time I’ve read something from her that has really failed to satisfy or entertain me. While she’s always had stellar instincts for characterization, they’re not employed well enough […]
The second volume of “Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto” does get a little more creative in its antics. Where I was worried that seeing the title character effortlessly succeed in the face of any obstacle he faced, mangaka Nami Sano displays a little more inventiveness in showing us how he does that in this volume. […]
I don’t think “Civil War” needed a sequel, but it looks like we’re getting one anyway. After all, there’s a new “Captain America” movie using the title of that event coming out in May. Marvel also needs any sales boost they can get in light of the fact that most of their new relaunches are […]
I noticed that James Stokoe is providing variant covers for the new issues of “Birthright” and “Head Lopper” that are being solicited here. It also got me thinking that, aside from these variants, and other variant covers for Marvel, we haven’t seen a lot of new sequential work from this immensely talented creator. After the […]
This is not a storyline that needed nine issues to tell. I can understand why Bendis may have thought that it did, as it’s essentially the climax of his run on this title. It’s hard to see how he can get much bigger than having Scott team up with his former comrades to take on […]
Low points don’t get much lower than what we got in vol. 10 of this series. Just about everything that could go wrong for the good guys in this series did, leaving them either dead or out of favor with the new government. Then we left off with the premise of the series being partly […]
It’s been a long, hard, weird road from the start of the “New 52,” but come this March several of the surviving titles from that initiative will have hit a significant milestone: Their 50th issues! Of the 52 titles that launched, “Batman,” “Batman & Robin,” “Detective Comics,” “Superman,” “Action Comics,” “Batgirl,” “Catwoman,” “The Flash,” “Green […]