Manga and Comic Reviews
If you like reading about the exploits of military personnel who are really good at what they do, and subscribe to certain political views, then you’ll likely be entirely satisfied by this third (and final?) volume of “The Activity.” After a flashback to Fallujah during the second Iraq War, things return to the present as […]
I was prepared to talk about the new titles arriving post-”Convergence” in June, but then I read that “Lucifer” was getting a pilot order from Fox today. Now I really like the Mike Carey-written “Sandman” spinoff that effectively hails from the land of “far better than it has any right to be.” The problem here […]
There’s been some advance word on a couple of titles that bear looking out for from this company later this year: After being announced at last year’s Anime Expo, the first omnibus edition of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” arrives in August. (So, two solicitations from now.) Easily one of the best manga still being […]
Does mangaka Gamon Sakura really know what he’s doing with this series? That’s the question his characterization of Kei, the title’s protagonist, posed in the previous volume and things only get worse in that regard here. Granted, all of the stuff regarding the plans that Sato (A.K.A. “Hat”) has in store for the demi-humans of […]
It’s clear from his comics work that Robert Kirkman is still not satisfied with what he has achieved. Despite “The Walking Dead” enjoying unbelievable success as an ongoing comic and TV show, and with “Invincible” being one of the longest-running creator-owned superhero titles out there, the writer still keeps trying to capture lightning in a […]
As it turns out, you can go home again. After a very lengthy gap between issues, David Lapham released issue #41 of “Stray Bullets” and completed the fifth volume of his signature crime series. He then bundled it, and the other forty issues in an omnibus edition that wound up being my favorite comic from […]
If nothing else (and I admit that’s selling it short), the first volume of “Black Science” had an unexpected and game-changing twist at its end. After jumping through several words with his friends, family, and co-workers, brilliant scientist Grant McKay met his end crushed under rubble. In his final moments, he begged Kadir — his […]
In what will no doubt come as a complete and utter surprise to people who have been following my reviews of this particular “Avengers/New Avengers” run, I wound up really liking this latest volume! Essentially the “beginning of the end” for Hickman’s run, it very much lives up to the title sentiment as things go […]
“The Secret Origin of Tony Stark’s” big twists were these: Tony was actually adopted, and he has a brother. Arno, who has spent most of his life in an iron lung and hidden away in case the android 451 ever came back to find him. Now that they’re together, the sky’s the limit as they […]
The subtitle for this volume is “Time For Grown-Ups,” and that turns out to be a bad and good thing for this series. In that order. Things start off with the introduction of someone who is at this point an unworkable assemblage of cliches and character types before we get to meet this series’ Lex […]