Manga and Comic Reviews
Carrying on from last month, vol. 14 of “Eden! It’s an Endless World” is now available for pre-order on Amazon. I’ve got my copy and even if you don’t get your comics from them, I’d say now’s the time to pre-order yours. As for stuff relevant to this month’s solicitations, there’s some curious management going […]
So this arrived a little sooner than I thought it would, and turned out to be worth the wait as well. A little win-win situation right there. Even better is that after a bit of action at the beginning the book’s entire focus shifts to Fukumachi’s efforts to chronicle Habu’s solo, oxygenless climb of Everest’s […]
DC Comics is… MOVING! To the East Coast! That was the big news that broke two weeks ago, though I can’t imagine that the announcement itself is going to have too much impact on the comics they publish. At least, that’s until we find out which staff members and editorial persons will actually be making […]
The initial trailers for this latest Marvel movie didn’t really do a whole lot to get me excited about it. Lots of flash, some new characters, a few old ones, and no real indication about just what the story was going to be about. “Yup. It’s a ‘Thor’ movie all right,” was the impression they […]
This is the title where Amazon failed me. After years of delivering all of my comics at fairly generous discounts with varying degrees of timeliness, they cancelled my order for this title and have yet to offer a physical copy of it for sale on their site. Kodansha, its publisher, is currently pointing its finger […]
I have yet to play “Bioshock Infinite,” “Saints Row IV,” “GTA V,” or “Assassin’s Creed IV,” but if I had to pick my game of the year right now it would be “The Last of Us.” Not only was it a beautifully rendered post-pandemic world where the new brutality required to survive was brilliantly integrated […]
I’ve enjoyed Bryan Talbot’s previous two volumes a great deal, but there was always something holding them back in the end. Where the first one was a tightly plotted, intelligent thriller, it wound up tossing those attributes with a climax that has more in common with the films of Schwarzenegger’s 80’s heyday. The second volume […]
The characters of the Marvel Universe are a diverse and flexible bunch. This is to the point where if a writer wanted to, they could tell a pretty straightforward genre story with the right one. Garth Ennis has told war stories with Nick Fury, Bendis and Brubaker have done legal thrillers with Daredevil, the latter […]
I have a pretty good idea of how this new original graphic novel came about. Either Mike Mignola or someone at Dark Horse realized that with the current schedule of “Hellboy in Hell” there wasn’t going to be a new “Hellboy” collection coming out this year. So Mignola calls up Duncan Fegredo and now we’ve […]
The reason this is coming so late is because I somehow missed this when it showed up on Diamond’s weekly shipping lists. There was this nagging thought on my head, “When is this volume going to come out in paperback?” that I didn’t get around to checking out until this week. Imagine my surprise when […]