Manga and Comic Reviews
James Robinson disappeared from comics to Hollywood for a while after completing his magnum opus “Starman.” That didn’t work out so well (see “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” movie) and he eventually came back to us. That didn’t work out so well either for a while as his “One Year Later” storyline on “Batman” was […]
It’s been a quiet time for news involving Dark Horse, so I’m at somewhat of a loss as to what to put here. I could always rehash my grudges involving the current state of their manga line, particularly after the puff piece masquerading as an interview publisher Mike Richardson did for Previews. However, it’s hard […]
The last volume of this came out… wow, over two years ago. Normally such a long delay would be frustrating in the extreme, but not this time. While the actual delay in creating new chapters has been down to mangaka Takehiko Inoue’s health problems, we’ve still been getting a steady stream of work from him […]
I’ll be talking about two main things this month in more depth than I usually do for these posts after the break. One is about the new lineup of writers for the “Green Lantern” family of titles. The other is the announcement of “100 Bullets: Brother Lono,” the follow up to Azzarello and Risso’s great […]
The latest volume of “Atomic Robo,” subtitled “The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific,” is good fun by the series’ reliable standards. After the title character runs afoul of some unknown airborne fighter craft in the Pacific, he’s subsequently rescued by the title characters. Women who took up the call to industry in WWII but didn’t […]
The insanity doesn’t let up for a second in this volume even for a second, though it does start to strain against the boundaries of the story logic on display here. I realize that’s a funny thing to call insanity on except that one of the main plot threads here (spotlighted on the cover) involves […]
I picked this up with the hope that Carl Horn would have a very wide latitude to work with in localizing these stories given that this would be a collection of parody shorts from a variety of mangaka. The good news is that not only was that apparently true, you can also tell that he […]
Anime News Network reported last night, by way of James Hudnall’s blog, that founder of Studio Proteus, co-founder of AnimeCon (later known as Anime Expo), and manga translation legend Toren Smith passed away recently. The man had effectively been retired in the industry since selling Studio Proteus to Dark Horse in 2004, but this was […]
I’ve been looking forward to one story from this volume for quite some time now. In fact, when issuing my concluding thoughts on vol. 11 I said that creator Eric Powell’s take on the industry’s self-destructive trends would likely be worth the price of the whole volume. Now that it’s finally here, guess which story […]
Dan Abnett is best known (in comics anyway) for his collaborations with co-writer Andy Lanning which have ranged from DC’s “Legion of Superheroes” and “Resurrection Man” to a whole host of cosmic Marvel projects which I’ve written about and generally enjoyed over the years. This represents the first series I’ve read from him as a […]