Manga and Comic Reviews
After the not-bad manga exclusive to the collector’s edition release of the game, we’re now getting the official manga spinoff to “Final Fantasy Type-0.” While people who have played the game will know that the title of “Ice Reaper” refers to Kurasame, the instructor to Class Zero, those who don’t probably won’t find enough connection […]
In a realization that makes me feel old more than anything else, it’s been ten years since “Avengers Disassembled” was published. This was the story that saw Bendis take over writing the “Avengers” and turned them into Marvel’s new best-selling team, bringing them a relevance they hadn’t seen in decades. Whatever your feelings about that […]
To be honest, there was a lot that fell under the title of this review. Some of it I still might get to at some point. For now, I’ve just got a random grab-bag of series I’ve been reading (Thor: God of Thunder vol. 4, Loki: Agent of Asgard vol. 2, Captain America vol. 5) […]
While “Senso” marked Stan Sakai’s return to his signature creation, this latest volume of “Usagi Yojimbo” finally catches the series up to where it stopped before going on hiatus. It’s also one of the better volumes in recent memory. Not just another great example of the consistent quality of the title, but featuring some excellent […]
Originally I was going to discuss this in a separate post about some collections I picked up for half-off their cover price at Comic-Con (maybe expect that sometime this weekend). Yet the more that I thought about it, the more I came to realize that this volume deserved a takedown of its own. The idea […]
I know I’ve said this before, but when you’ve got a series whose storytelling is more episodic than serialized the wait between volumes doesn’t sting as much. Granted, I’d love for this series to be more popular so we could get caught up to the Japanese release (and get the spinoffs as well). This isn’t […]
This series came to my attention at that manga publisher roundtable I attended at Comic-Con. A series about a practitioner of Japanese calligraphy who moves out to a rural island is selling better than the publisher expected? I have to see how such odd subject matter is connecting with fans! As these things go, the […]
It’s actually been a while since I’ve followed a Vertigo series that was cut down before it could finish its run. Yet here we are with the third and final volume of “Hinterkind,” a title about the creatures of myth reclaiming the world from humans after an apocalyptic plague known as the Blight. We get […]
…it’ll just be coming up later than usual due to some technical and logistics issues. Expect another review tomorrow.
One could say that Chise Hatori has led an unlucky and unloved life. This would be before she was auctioned off for the tidy sum of five million pounds to a mage with an animal skull for a head named Elias Ainsworth. While this would seem like just the latest tragedy in a life that […]