Manga and Comic Reviews
(Despite what the numbers on the side of these volumes say, you won’t find the beginning of this run here. The first three issues by Allred and Fraction were collected in “Fantastic Four vol. 1: New Arrivals, New Departures” which I reviewed a while back.) I know I always put the writer’s name first when […]
The first volume of this series was an anthology that worked as nearly all anthologies do: the quality of stories it featured was decidedly uneven. However, amongst them there was one entry that stood above all the rest. “Tesla’s Electric Sky Schooner” not only featured an imaginative and fast-paced script from “Robo” creator Brian Clevinger […]
Though he’s meant to be the star of this series, Miyamoto Musashi has been the biggest drag on its momentum for a while now. We start to see that change with this volume as his sojourn in the wilds finally starts to develop a point. The swordsman acknowledges early on that he can’t beat his […]
The state of Dark Horse’s manga publishing efforts has been an ongoing concern of mine over the years as we’ve seen a steady decline in the amount of manga they’ve released as well as a complete lack of new titles that aren’t from established authors, or don’t have a significant media tie-in. There’s also the […]
If you’re wondering what the success of “Hawkeye” by Fraction, Aja and co. has wrought, look no further. The success of that title has not only convinced Marvel that unique creator-driven approaches are necessary for any title starring a B-list character to succeed, but that the “street level” approach to characters not necessarily known for […]
It would seem to appear that Marvel thinks that comic shop owners aren’t able to properly gauge demand for their titles. After all, why would they put out an ad specifically telling retailers that they haven’t ordered enough copies of the latest “She Hulk” series? The last time I remember them doing something like this […]
In this volume we get a lot of answers. Were you wondering what happened to the evil Invincibles that Angstrom Levy brought over back in vol. 12? That’s explained here and it isn’t pretty. Do you have any curiosity regarding what Robot has been up to ever since he and Monster Girl returned from the […]
We’ve got another late addition to the previous month’s Image’s solicitations after “Stray Bullets” declassified its solicitations. This time it’s a new series called “Trees” from Warren Ellis and artist Jason Howard. Information about it is scarce at the moment, as all we know is that it’s about giant aliens that have landed on Earth […]
What’s the best way to get me to pick up a title in single issue form? Don’t collect the issues in a trade paperback. That way I’ll have no alternative but to buy the title in its first-run form. Unless the title was mediocre, that is. Such is the fate that awaits DC’s “The Green […]
If you’ll recall, I was quite bitter about where writer Jeff Lemire left Buddy Baker in the wake of the “Rotworld” crossover. I felt that the climax of the story had broken the fundamental appeal of the character as the “family man” superhero and that any kind of “journey back to the status quo” was […]