Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Renowned and best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood’s first comics project will be arriving courtesy of Dark Horse in 2016. “Angel Catbird” is described as a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired story about a human whose genes wind up getting spliced with those of a cat and owl. Will Eisner’s “The Spirit,” the Grant Morrison/Chas Truog run of “Animal […]
The Wolverine we know is still dead, but it’s really hard to miss him when we have X-23 taking his place in the “Wolverine” series and the title character here joining the X-Men and getting his own ongoing series as well. In fact, Old Man Logan is functionally identical to his younger counterpart, save for […]
This is a story that should have sold gangbusters… about a decade ago. As it is right now, it’s just one more disappointing signpost on the road to the end of the Ultimate Universe. The story involves a crossover between the Ultimate and 616 Marvel Universes after the time-stranded X-Men head off to meet a […]
Now here’s a title that I really wanted to like because of its premise. It starts off with a jobless otaku shut-in being kicked out of his family’s house — because staying inside his room during his parents’ funeral was the last straw — and the immediately dying after pushing a couple out of the […]