Manga and Comic Reviews
Call it a twenty-issue victory lap. After Peter David managed a 100-plus issue run on the latest incarnation of “X-Factor,” he leapt right into the next one with a substantially different cast and setup. It’s been fun, assuming you’re a fan of David’s style, but nothing all that special. You get the feeling that after […]
You know, I would’ve liked to have read a series about a cold-blooded killer with otherworldly powers uniting others of his kind to fight against a social order that would otherwise exploit them to the fullest extent. That’s the kind of series “Ajin” felt like during its first few volumes as Sato/Hat tried to get […]
Now this is more like it. I threw around a lot of comparisons to Dan Slott’s “She-Hulk” run in my previous review, but the work of Charles Soule and Javier Pulido does more to set itself apart in this volume. Things kick off with a fun superhero team-up as She-Hulk and Hellcat work together with […]
Adam Warren has been publishing assorted one-offs relating to his bondage-prone, self-esteem challenged superheroine over the years. Not only do they serve as a stopgap for providing Emp-related content in the years that we’re not graced with a new volume, but we also get to see his world and characters interpreted by a series of […]
Right now the plan is to catch “Age of Ultron” on Sunday with John and at least one other friend. So no real thoughts on the movie yet. However, its 75% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes tells me that I should have a good time if I keep my expectations tempered. Maybe I’ll have something […]
In my review of vol. 2 I made a number of predictions about what we could expect to see in this concluding volume. This is how they panned out: “[T]hings ending with the death and/or imprisonment of the members of the Paperboy group.” Right on both counts, actually. Not everyone makes it to the finale. […]
The text on the back of this volume spells out its appeal in succinct detail: “The bailiff takes one up his ass.” It’s no secret that the series has been building to the takedown of this character. Anything less would’ve had its audience riot in the street, small as it is. So let me say […]
Writing the first issue of a new comic is one of the most difficult things a writer can do in this industry. There’s the establishment of the core cast, setting up and then upending the established status quo, and providing a compelling hook that has the reader coming back for the second issue. A good […]
It’s been rumored for a while now, but the third “Dark Knight” series is officially a reality. Subtitled “The Master Race,” it will be serialized as an eight-issue miniseries, bi-weekly starting later this year. Frank Miller will again be writing and illustrating this series and that by itself doesn’t really bode well for it. Following […]
Kieron Gillen so flawlessly defined this latest incarnation of the title character over the course of “Journey Into Mystery” and “Young Avengers,” that the idea of another writer chronicling his solo adventures sounded like a recipe for disaster. In one of those instances where I’m quite happy to be wrong, Al Ewing effortlessly picks up […]