Manga and Comic Reviews
Spoilers be damned! Any story that involves Captain America getting his ass handed to him by Dennis “D-Man” Dunphy is automatically in the running for “worst story of the year” around here. I don’t care how tragic his situation is, the character is so terminally lame that there’s no benefit for using him the way […]
The last time “Uncanny X-Force” did a story that spanned two collected volumes, it was “The Dark Angel Saga.” That was the rare superhero epic that was as good as its hype, so the “Final Execution” storyline has a lot to live up to in that regard along with the fact that it represents writer […]
I’ll admit that I didn’t have high expectations for this series when I started reading it. Even though it did have a key member of the anime’s staff, character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, this was still going to be the same “Neon Genesis Evangelion” that I know from the TV series. On one hand, that’s still […]
There are some who think that making a comic book as a movie pitch is an inherently bad thing. After all, the idea is to get the idea out there in some form, attract the attention of Hollywood, and ride the ensuing wave of box-office success and merchandising to a pot filled with cash at […]
Now I liked the first volume of this latest take on the character well enough, but something just felt off here. Maybe it’s because writer Scott Snyder burns through the conflict in the four issues from the title proper in a way that doesn’t allow the events contained inside to resonate. Yes, there are some […]
Now I’ve talked before about how writer Robert Venditti has been getting work at DC on projects both low-profile (“Demon Knights”) and high (“Green Lantern”). This comes in spite of the fact that he hasn’t been a very prolific or well-known person in the industry, though his best-known project “The Surrogates” was adapted into a […]
“Dial H For Hero” is an oddball superhero concept from DC that has been revived several times over the years with, at best, modest amounts of success. It’s not hard to understand why it keeps being brought back as having a telephone dial that grants superpowers to ordinary people is a versatile setup that lends […]
The only conventional things about this volume are the challenges its protagonists face. After the crew of the Manhattan Projects reached the stars (and wiped out an alien race in the process), the next step is to consolidate forces on Earth. This means teaming up with their Russian counterparts in Star City and taking out […]
For a series that advertises itself as a surreal mystery, getting Damon Lindelof (co-creator and co-showrunner of “Lost”) to write the introduction to this first volume of “Mind MGMT” does not exactly inspire confidence. While I certainly don’t regret investing my time in the six seasons of that show, the fact that he and the […]
It feels weird reading this when I still haven’t finished Jonathan Hickman’s run on the title (the last volumes of “FF” and “Fantastic Four” will be arriving in June and July, respectively). However, Marvel has decided to be more judicious with their premiere hardcover line so we’re getting this first collection of Matt Fraction’s take […]