Manga and Comic Reviews
Ugh. If you’ve ever wondered about the boundaries of my love for the work of Garth Ennis, you have them right here. “Dicks” is his series with artist John McCrea about two nitwits from Belfast, Ivor and Dougie, who get into the most disgusting kind of sexual and scatalogical adventures you can imagine. This volume […]
With the four issues of the main series collected here, writer Nick Spencer decided to advance each of the core stories being told here in its own issue. So you have Hyperion leading the assault against the insurgent A.I.M. Island, Falcon meeting up with Chinese superheroes to deal with the Madripoor island dragon, Starbrand waiting […]
To be honest, I’m not sure if I’ll get around to buying another volume of this title. “Savage Wolverine” is the “Wolverine stories from a rotating cast of creators” and its quality has been all over the place over the course of its run so far. For all the stories that look interesting — like […]
There are certain volumes in some of my favorite series that I just dread re-reading when I get to them. “The Sandman vol. 9: The Kindly Ones,” “Blade of the Immortal vol. 11: Beasts,” “Berserk vol. 13,” and I could go on. Even though I love these series, I always dread getting to these particular […]
Reading this event series tie-in was an interesting experience for me. Not only did it arrive before my copy of the “Original Sin” collection, but it also serves as the finale for Mark Waid and Kieron Gillen’s runs on “Hulk” and “Iron Man,” respectively, both of which I’m waiting to catch up with in paperback. […]
The first time Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy teamed up, the results were decidedly very silly. “American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest” was an over-the-top “NAZI VAMPIRES!” story that didn’t really mesh very well with the tone of the regular series. Murphy drew the hell out of it, though, and proved that he’s one of […]
After starting out as one of the “New 52’s” most distinctive titles, Jeff Lemire’s take on the adventures of Buddy Baker and his family cratered with the destructively unimaginative “Rotworld” crossover. It was an event that played out exactly as you’d think a storyline that took the “Age of Apocalypse” as its inspiration would and […]
For the last several years Dan Slott has been cranking out more than one issue of “Spider-Man” every month. It represented pretty much his entire comic output during that time. Now, as he winds down his run on “Amazing Spider-Man,” the writer has dialed back his prolificacy on that title to allow him to take […]
Only one more volume left. So what does mangaka Hiroaki Samura choose to do with this penultimate entry in his legendary series? Go balls-out with the action as he has three different battles unfold over the course of this volume. Even though the fighting is pretty much non-stop from beginning to end here, he still […]
Yeah, this is going to be the last volume of the series I buy. What started out as the most hilariously awful thing I’ve read in a long time actually got better and became less interesting in the second volume. Then something happened between the release of that volume and this latest one that stole […]