Manga and Comic Reviews
Arriving just in time for the new “Avengers” movie is Marvel’s latest original graphic novel. Its title isn’t just a pun on the movie’s, it’s a key part of the book’s plot as it deals with the tortured familial relationship between Hank Pym and his creation, Ultron, with some angst from Vision thrown in as […]
Strip the covers off of your (first print) copies of “Star Wars #1,” send them in to Dark Horse, and get a free variant cover of their new “Barb Wire” series. It was the “April Fool’s” joke that wasn’t. I’d call it schadenfreude, but it really isn’t. Anyway, with over a million copies in circulation […]
Real progress towards sorting out the Goridian’s Knot of Madarame’s love life by the end of the volume. You’ll have to wade through a lot of waffling on the cast’s part to get there, though. That’s because ComiFest time has arrived again and everyone who is not Ogiue (she’s busy prepping her own doujinshi for […]
Wait, didn’t I just do a roundup of my Image backlog yesterday? Yes I did, but this title is a special case. Though I’ve enjoyed a lot of comics that Rick Remender has written over the years, he’s also managed to write one that I gave up on after following it for a little while: […]
After reading a comic, it either passes on to my “to review” pile or straight onto a shelf. Looking at the size of my “to review” pile, it’s clear to me that I have to start burning through some of these things quicker if I want to get this thing down to a manageable level. […]
Lord Henry Baltimore’s quest to rid the world of the Red King kicks off with the building of his party to do the job. That’s the thread which binds these two stories, starting with “The Witch of Harju” and the introduction of the title’s new regular artist Peter Bergting. In it, Baltimore and company find […]
Much to my surprise, this second volume manages to be a better read than the first simply by sticking to its guns and continuing on from what was established before. No, the secret underground assassin school of Kings Dominion isn’t developed much more here, but I’m more in tune with what writer Rick Remender is […]
After some fifteen-odd years of reading it and nearly eight alternately spent talking and writing about how good it is, the final volume of “Blade of the Immortal” has arrived for me. So yeah, I’m going to spend some time savoring the experience this evening. If these words don’t convince you about how big a […]
After two years of regular bi-monthly serialization (save for this volume), the inevitable has happened with this series: “Sidonia” has finally caught up to the latest volume released in Japan. It also picked a fine note for that to happen on here. The opening phallocentric (no, really, it is) chapter and two that follow offer […]
I don’t usually go in for videogame special editions, but the one being offered for “Final Fantasy Type-0 HD” had something that really caught my eye. That would be a 200-page manga that (as of this writing) isn’t available anywhere else. In addition to all of the other bells and whistles the special edition came […]