Manga and Comic Reviews
In the best cases, a comic is entertaining because it has great art, interesting characters, entertaining dialogue, and a compelling story. More often than not, a title finds itself lacking in one or more of those areas, but is able to compensate enough in the others to present a worthwhile reading experience. Then you have […]
The company announced a lot of interesting projects at Comic-Con this year, with the most notable being a sequel to “Fight Club” written by the book’s original author, Chuck Palahniuk, with art from Cameron Stewart. It’s not the first time a book has received a sequel in comic form, but the fact that its creator […]
The short version is that despite what the title would have you believe, this volume is certainly not that. It continues the story of former superhero Simon Cooke as he tries to resume life as an ordinary billionaire head of a multinational corporation. Complicating this is the fact that his former sidekick isn’t ready to […]
After years in seclusion, Matt Murdock emerges to take on Bullseye in a knock-down, drag-out fight in the middle of New York that ends with the death of The Man Without Fear. Left to pick up the pieces is reporter, and friend to Matt, Ben Urich. Initially reluctant to take the job, Urich soon finds […]
What does the future hold for everyone’s favorite barbarian? Brian Wood takes a literal approach to that question in the latest volume of his run on the character’s ongoing series “Nightmare of the Shallows.” The results are good enough to make up for the half of the volume that doesn’t involve Conan tripping balls with […]
When I heard that Jason Aaron would be coming back to tell a Wolverine solo story as a digital promotion for last year’s movie, I knew I’d have to check it out at some point. Given that the man wrote the character better than anyone else in recent memory I was a little disappointed to […]
How do you follow up one of the most thrilling volumes of comics I’ve read all year? If you’re mangaka Makoto Yukimura, you dig right into your new status quo of the united factions from the previous volume taking on the King of Denmark for all he controls. It’s a setup that doesn’t offer as […]
Being the first major “X-Men” crossover event in a while, I was prepared to give this an in-depth review. However, the more I thought about it I realized that there just wasn’t a whole heck of a lot that really warranted discussion here. The premise is that a group of X-Men from the future — […]
With a title like that you’d think that we’d be in for some grade-A foreshadowing and setup for future volumes, right? Unfortunately, as “B.P.R.D.’s” main failing is that it can sometimes be too preoccupied in setting up stories to come that it forgets to tell interesting stories in the here and now, that appears to […]
It’s only natural that when you have a film like “Star Wars” that spawned an entire industry unto itself, there’s going to be a higher than normal level of interest in its origins. So when you start hearing apocryphal stories about the original “rough draft” of the very first film and what it contained — […]