Manga and Comic Reviews
The fun thing about having the Image Expo earlier this month is that several of the titles announced are having their first issues solicited here. It makes them seem less far off than originally announced, you know. There’s still a ton of other titles that we’ll have to wait for later this year to get […]
Yokoi would be your average high school girl if it weren’t for one thing: her neighbor Seki. You see, the boy who sits next to her in class doesn’t just goof off. He elevates it into an art form. Creating an ersatz domino rally with erasers, turning his desk into a shogi board, creating a […]
Barring a spectacular last-minute turn-around, I think it’s safe to say that Brian Wood’s latest creator-owned series is going to finish without ever having lived up to its potential. The story of environmentalists trying to survive and hold onto their beliefs in a post-environmental crash world was certainly a promising setup. Yet Wood kicked things […]
This may not surprise anyone, but yesterday’s article started off as the intro to this post. At around the third paragraph I realized that it wasn’t going to fit here anymore. That said, on with the picks! Uncanny Inhumans #0: One more reason why “Secret Wars” isn’t going to prompt a Marvel Reboot. After all, […]
The big news this week was that the Marvel Universe will end with the upcoming “Secret Wars” event. Except it won’t really as the series will be about the Battleworld that consists of characters from lots of different alternate universes and previous Marvel events. It’s by Hickman with art from Esad Ribic and is also […]
Make of this what you will: Last week, Kodansha Comics announced several new manga licenses. Of particular interest to me was “Die Wergelder,” a new manga from “Blade of the Immortal” creator Hiroaki Samura. This is notable because it’s his first series to not be published by Dark Horse. In addition to the mangaka’s signature […]
At first I thought this would be the first volume of the series to offer nothing worth writing about. It kicks off with the launch of the brand new Tazugane-class vessel and most of the core cast is onboard to put it through its paces. Narratively, this involves the vessel coming into contact with a […]
As this wound up making a last-minute arrival on my “Best of 2014” list, I figured it was due for some elaboration on just why that happened. It’s a mature work of erotic fiction that skillfully fleshes out the personalities of its two female leads in a respectful, intelligent… “WAIT! DON’T LEAVE YET! THIS BOOK […]
Comics’ biggest writer! Comics’ biggest artist! Together on comics’ biggest character! That’s the kind of hype which preceded this series featuring Scott Snyder and Jim Lee taking on Superman, with Dustin Nguyen pitching in here and there for a few pages. The first issue hit the stands when the “Man of Steel” movie was still […]
There are those rare moments in fiction where a character manages to say exactly what you’re thinking about the work in question. You get the feeling that whoever was responsible for those words just reached into you head and either put them down on the page or had them come out of someone’s mouth. It’s […]