Manga and Comic Reviews
This was probably inevitable in the title’s run. Pitting the mind of Otto Octavius in Peter Parker’s body against one of Spider-Man’s most famous villains? Clearly a great way to show us what the character is made of before the final arc. The problem is that the storyline plays out exactly as you’d expect. After […]
Back in the last batch of solicitations from Dark Horse, I saw word that Stan Sakai was going to be writing a new “Usagi Yojimbo” series. Titled “Senso,” there was no indication whether it was going to be a soft relaunch of the ongoing series which went on hiatus after Saki went to work with […]
According to legend (actually, just Rich Johnston) Kieron Gillen was utterly incensed after reading Frank Miller’s “300” and seeing what a hash it made of actual history. Granted, I don’t think Miller had any real designs on historical accuracy with that title — it reads like an exercise in mythmaking more than anything else — […]
This final collection of Garth Ennis’ latest series of war comics comes with two strikes against it. As the run consisted of only two three-issue miniseries, this final collection is shorter than the others by a third. The hardcover collecting them is unfortunately not correspondingly cheaper as it bears a $25 cover price instead of […]
The main thing readers of the first volume will immediately notice in the second is that there’s a new artist onboard. One of Brian Wood’s frequent collaborators, Ryan Kelly, provides the art for the first half of this volume and parts of it are an uneasy fit. What’s good is that he’s got a nice […]
When I started reading the first volume of this series, I had high expectations for it. After all, it was from the creator of “Planetes,” still the best manga ever published by Tokyopop, and the placement of each new volume on the sales charts indicated that this story about vikings had transcended whatever limitations doing […]
Now this is interesting. I’ve said before that this title’s biggest weakness is its tendency to put out stories that aren’t immediately entertaining, but set up things that will be paid off quite well down the road. One only needs to look at route Mike Mignola and co. took to get to “B.P.R.D.: Vampire” to […]
Deadpool’s sudden popularity over the last few years has always been a bit of a mystery to me. While the character has been around since the early 90’s and been in his own (and one shared with Cable) ongoing series since the late 90’s, he was at one point headlining three different ongoing series, has […]
In this volume you will see an astronaut shooting mobsters with lazers, a food pornographer, a police story from another planet, and protagonist Tony Chu and his partner hallucinating themselves as talking animals while they head out on a case. So yeah, it’s business as usual for “Chew” as the series continues to deliver its […]
Some people have theorized that DC has conditioned readers to buy the bargain-priced trade paperbacks for Vertigo titles rather than the monthly issues, and this is why the imprint has had such a hard time launching new series over the past few years. I can see the logic in that line of thinking, yet it […]