Manga and Comic Reviews
So you’ve got a series about a bath engineer from Roman times who makes a habit of falling into water and waking up in modern day Japan. Once there, he observes some notable aspect of their bathing culture and then tries his best to replicate it after he falls into water again and winds up […]
Thanks mainly to the writing of Paul Cornell, the first volume of “Demon Knights” was one of the more entertaining offerings from the New 52. While the overall story of several individuals of questionable character and great skill banding together to save a town from certain destruction has been done so often that it even […]
Today (at least at the time I started writing this) marks the fifth anniversary of the first post ever made to this site. More than anything, I continue to write, podcast, and post to this site because I don’t want to remain just a consumer of the comics I read. Before I started writing this, […]
The journey of young upper-atmosphere window-washer Mitsu and his friends wraps up in satisfying fashion with this volume. After the plant explosion, the lower levels have been sealed off from the middle and upper ones to prevent the chaos and rioting from spreading. Everyone down there prepares for the worst, and Mr. Nishimaru seizes this […]
You may recall that a while back I expressed my displeasure that this storyline was even happening. Since then, sales on the “Ultimate” titles have sunk even lower and there are rumblings of an “Avengers vs. Ultimates” event happening next year that will formally see the dissolution of this particular universe. If that event does […]
I didn’t expect the first volume of this series to grow on me as much as it did while I was reading it. The end result was that I wound up looking forward to reading the next volume more than I thought I would. Creator/co-writer Robert Kirkman and artist Shawn Martinbrough are still onboard, but […]
Do I have anything to say about Image right now? Not a damn thing at the moment. Of course, I am coming down from the high of attending Fanime in San Jose since Thursday. Even though I went with John for an extra day this year, the con didn’t seem to last any longer because […]
So I did get out to see “Iron Man 3” a couple weeks back and was thoroughly impressed by what I saw. Though it didn’t quite capture the “shock of the new” that the first film had, it was still a big step up from the previous one in that it gave us an actual […]
Going back to “The Beat” again, there was an article from last week that asked the question, “Is Dark Horse Entering a Golden Age?” Writer Hannah Means-Shannon, who also did the article about the “Essential DC Graphic Novels” cites the company’s long reliance on (quality) licensed titles like “Star Wars” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” […]
The Beat posted a breakdown of the “DC Entertainment Essential Graphic Novels” promotional magazine that came out recently. It contains 25 titles in the list and is full of titles that deserve the “essential” tag (“Sandman” vol. 1, “The Dark Knight Returns,” “Saga of the Swamp Thing” vol. 1), some that are just good (“American […]