Manga and Comic Reviews
The good news is that this volume continues to keep the title’s momentum going. We get a decisive end to the conflict between the Claymores and the Organization here with some nice surprises. Things continue immediately on to the next arc where we get a change to the status quo of the Claire/Priscilla/Unholy Abomination of […]
Hickman’s record with me has been rock-solid, and his creator-owned titles have been a cut above his superhero work so picking this up was, once again, “a no-brainer.” This is in spite of the fact that “East of West” represents a bit of a departure for the writer as he’s addressing a very specific American […]
Given that Vertical has been expanding into shojo manga over the past year, I initially thought that this was another entry in that vein. It’s a romance story, there’s a whole lot of melodrama in the execution and the art initially comes off as very shojo-esque in its panel arrangement and design. Then in chapter […]
Apparently Jason Aaron felt the need after having the students and staff of the Jean Grey School take on FRANKENSTEIN’S MURDER CIRCUS to dial things back a bit. So this volume has Wolverine taking certain trouble members of the school on a field trip… to the Savage Land! Being the teacher he is, Idie, Quentin […]
New volumes of this series are an annual event and always one worth celebrating. Take this volume for instance, which covers over a decade of time yet doesn’t feel rushed at all. It also has an intriguing cliffhanger to pick up on. After reforming the shogunate and filling its coffers again, Yoshimune was riding high […]
The thought of this series taking another detour from the story of Jedi Dass Jennir and the crew of the Uhumele didn’t really strike me as a promising start for this story. Such detours haven’t worked out all that well for “B.P.R.D.” after all. Yet the more I read into this volume, the focus on […]
Otherwise known as, “The Series That’s Holding Up the Third Volume of ‘Phonogram.’” That being said, this is still a new work from one of comics’ most reliably entertaining and inventive teams, Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie. They knocked it out of the park on the first two volumes of “Phonogram,” the the issues of […]
Okay, after this one I’m thinking that they can give these “dated” flashback miniseries a rest. The two previous ones annoyed me (yes, even the one with art from Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon) because they felt like diversions that were keeping us from the more interesting main plot of the series. I was more […]
…off to a pretty good start. Last night’s premiere wasn’t mind-blowingly awesome, but it was suitably entertaining for a series that aims to give us a more grounded view of the Marvel Universe on a weekly basis. It’s not going to be all-superheroes all the time, as the pilot makes clear. The focus is on […]
If seeing junior high kids die after piloting the giant mecha Zearth has been enough drama to sustain this series over eight volumes, then showing us how their sole elementary school pilot accepts her fate should be even more dramatic. Right? That’s only partly true here. As we found out at the end of the […]