Manga and Comic Reviews
While it’s nice to see someone like Garth Ennis, who has been around a while in this industry, explore other genres the results of his most recent projects have been decidedly mixed. “Rover Red Charlie” had some good parts, but the “talking animals” part of it was awkwardly executed. Now we have this riff on […]
The era of fill-ins is over! What we get with this final volume are six issues of delightfully mean-spirited entertainment from writer Nick Spencer and artist Steve Lieber (with Rich Ellis pitching in on one issue). Thanks to the Owl, Boomerang is now back to working with some of his former partners — Beetle, Overdrive, […]
If you’re familiar with the web machinima series “Red vs. Blue,” I want to to remember all the way back to the first season. Back to the moment when Sarge, taken out of action by a grenade to the face, is revived through the heroic efforts of Grif’s administration of CPR. Sarge is grateful until […]
The first volume was one of the most gloriously stupid things I’ve ever read, so I had to put it on my “best of” list for 2013. Now we have the first volume of the ongoing series, and it’s just as dumb as before while also managing to raise the craziness to near unsustainable levels. […]
The legend of King Conan lives on in this two-volume adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s only “Conan” novel! As part of recording the chronicle of his life, the beyond-grizzled, ultra-cantankerous Old King Conan relates the story of how he was deposed as King of Aquilonia through the sorcerous machinations of its former rulers who have […]
Spoiler Warning: These “Sacred Places” aren’t really all that interesting. Much like the previous volume, the majority of the stories here lack a clear direction to tell us why we should care about the title character’s ongoing journey. After freeing a captured woman, Grace, in the opening story, she follows Abe as he gets mixed […]
Only one volume left in Si Spurrier’s run on this incarnation of “X-Force.” Sadly, sales on this title managed to crater even faster than the previous run so it would appear that there really isn’t room in the market for an irreverent, quirky take on the most militant and proactive of mutant teams. I’m disappointed […]
I have yet to watch the finale of “Agent Carter” as I sit down to write this. Given the “never quite as good as it should be” quality of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” this event series has been more consistently entertaining and utilized its Marvel Universe setting in a far more satisfying way. While the whole […]
Two volumes in and it still feels like I know exactly where this series is going to go. This is mainly because it’s striking to see how movie-like “Prophecy’s” pacing is here. Volumes one and two really do read like the first two acts of a feature film. In the first volume we had the […]
This is one of those months where the company launches a lot of new titles. Which… doesn’t make it too different from most of the past ones I guess. Anyway, Ellis and Shalvey’s “Injection” debuts here along with a few other titles that sound like they have potential. There are a few that don’t, but […]