Manga and Comic Reviews
THIS SERIES IS STILL TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE! I don’t know why Oni thinks that it’s a good idea to release Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth’s enjoyable shaggy dog private investigator in an oversized hardcover format for $30 a volume. Done correctly, putting a title in hardcover can signify prestige and that’s best seen in manga […]
Remember “Xerxes?” The sequel to “300” to be written and illustrated by Frank Miller that was previewed back when “Dark Horse Presents” launched back in 2011 and to serve as the basis for the upcoming film sequel “Rise of an Empire?” Well, after turning in two issues a couple years back, Miller has yet to […]
Over a week ago, Jonathan Hickman and Tom Brevoort talked about what constitutes a good jumping on point for a series. Issue #24 of Hickman’s “Avengers” was cited as such, given the push it has received as being part of the “All-New Marvel NOW!” initiative. Hickman thought that it was a terrible example of a […]
Terrible ending coda aside, Kyoko Okazaki’s “Helter Skelter” was an engrossing thriller that left me eagerly awaiting this story. Described as her “representative work” on the back cover, “Pink” is entertaining fluff and light on its feet with its protagonist’s determined refusal to acknowledge life’s harder edges. Interestingly enough, its quality proves to be the […]
DC’s new weekly series “Batman Eternal?” That’s old news now with the announcement of their newest weekly series “Future’s End.” Taking place “Five Years Later,” which is also thought to be the theme of the company’s event for this coming September, the only characters mentioned as participating in it so far are Batman Beyond, Frankenstein […]
In one corner we have “Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard vol. 2.” Part of the excellent “Mouse Guard” series with a host of great creators both known and unknown to me. The first volume also won an Eisner for being the best anthology in the year that it was released. In the other we […]
This wasn’t on my “must buy” list but I decided to give it a shot anyway. It’s just that the idea of a science fiction story that was part “Star Trek,” part “C.S.I.” sounded appealing to me and it had that “unknown new title from Image” vibe to it so that was a plus too. […]
Rather than revel in my arrested adolescence and continue to make more jokes about the book’s title I’m just going to cut to the chase. There’s plenty of the title act in “Sex,” and it runs the gamut from straight, gay, lesbian, and with a number of fetishes attached it throughout the story. It’s not […]
If there is one thing that binds us all, it’s the fact that we all have at least one unfinished Warren Ellis project that we’re waiting for. “Planetary” was the top choice for many years until artist John Cassaday started uploading images of the final issue to Wildstorm digitally and we all found out that […]
Mike Mignola, you clever bastard you. This wasn’t what I was expecting, but it wound up being the best kind of surprise. If the “B.P.R.D.” series has any real fault it’s that the series is planned out too well. What I mean by that is that after reading over twenty volumes of it and its […]