Manga and Comic Reviews
The third volume of mangaka Keiko Suenobu’s “Limit” puts its best foot forward yet in trying to convince me that it was clearly a mistake on my part to start reading this title. Early on we find out that the mysterious figure seen at the end of the previous volume was Hinata, one of Mizuki’s […]
Compared to “Ultimate Comics Ultimates,” this one isn’t necessarily the better title but it is at least more consistent. Not only did Nick Spencer write all the issues himself, but artists Carlo Barberi and Paco Medina have pretty consistent styles that are well-suited to superhero action. In spite of all this, though, the end result […]
If you’ll recall, I liked the first volume of this a lot more than I was expecting to. It had an epic scope with stakes to match and threats that felt convincing and meaningful in the context of the story. I was expecting to get this volume a little sooner than I actually did but […]
Just so you know, the podcast has been pushed back a week due to some issues, but we should have it ready to go next week. We’ll also see about doing a catch-up one the week after to get things back on schedule. Until then… I hadn’t planned on buying this but after re-reading “The […]
Roy Thomas’ return to the character he wrote for so many years at Marvel wraps up in suitably entertaining fashion. The first two-thirds of this collection involve Conan getting mixed up in a coup in the Aquilonian capital city of Tarantia and then having to fight his way through the catacombs mixed with crawling bugs, […]
The title character actually takes a backseat in this volume after the first issue due to… ah, “lingering” issues from his encounter with the scourge virus. Instead, the focus here is on Robot and Monster Girl and what exactly happened to them during the time they were in the Flaxan dimension. Though they told everyone […]
After “My Friend Dahmer” rocked my world, I was left with a desire to finally track down more work from its creator “Derf” Backderf. Surprisingly, “Punk Rock and Trailer Parks” shares more than a few commonalities with the author’s latest work. Both touch on the utter dullness of small-town life, take place in high school, […]
Kaoru Mori changes up the tone with this volume, pushing it more towards overt comedy this time out. The reasons for that are right on the cover. We’re introduced to them after Mr. Smith falls off of his camel into a lake and is rescued by the twins Laila and Leily who find out that […]
Christopher Hastings, the writer/artist of this series, dedicated this volume to his friends Jeff and Holly for being such supportive friends, and because one of them gave him the idea for dinosaurs being bounced off the Earth into space. From there, these dinos traveled frozen through space, being bombarded by cosmic radiation until they arrived […]
The first volume of “Wonder Woman” by writer Brian Azzarello and artists Cliff Chiang and Tony Akins was one of the best surprises of the “New 52.” Azzarello is a writer who rarely aims to give readers what they want and usually shoots for trying to give us something that we didn’t know we needed. […]