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Manga and Comic Reviews

Image Previews Picks: April 2013

Issue #36 of “Prophet” comes out this month.  While it wasn’t one of my “ten best” of last year, it was a title that would’ve been on there had the list gone to twenty.  The first volume was just too bizarre, weird and unique to not be worthy of some notice.  However, come this month […]

Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths

Shigeru Mizuki may be one of Japan’s best-known and loved mangaka, but prior to this title’s publication in April 2011, none of his work had ever been translated into English.  Though his most famous series, “Ge ge ge no Kitaro,” is an enduringly popular kid’s  series that deals with the many denizens of Japanese folklore, […]

Marvel Previews Picks: April 2013

The upcoming “Age of Ultron” event will be serialized at a blistering pace even by Marvel’s current standards.  April will be its second month and if everything goes as planned we’ll be up to issue six by the end of it.  That being said, if everything does go as planned, we’ll have been treated to […]

Fatale vol. 2: The Devil’s Business

Though it pains me to say it, the first volume of this series was somewhat of a letdown.  After Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips consistently hit it out of the park with “Sleeper,” “Criminal,” and “Incognito,” I was expecting “Fatale” to do just the same.  Unfortunately, the story, the setting and the characters all felt […]

Dark Horse Previews Picks: April 2013

According to Rich Johnston, pre-orders for the “Hyrule Historia” currently stand at 250,000.  It’s all the more impressive when you consider that this is a $35 hardcover, but I’m curious as to why he’s reporting on this.  Sure it has a “Skyward Sword” comic inside, but it’s not really comics news, nor the first such […]

DC Previews Picks: April 2013

If the creative teams for “Constantine” and “Birds of Prey” look a little different from last month, it’s because they’ve been retroactively changed since then.  Robert Venditti is off the former, replaced by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes plotting it with Fawkes scripting, and Jim Zubkavitch is off the latter, with Christy Marx now onboard.  […]

Bakuman vol. 17

Another thing that occurred while reading the previous topic was, “How did this make it by Kodansha’s editorial staff?”  Granted, I could very well be in the minority when it comes to appreciating “Attack on Titan’s” virtues but those two volumes definitely left me with the feeling that it could’ve been greatly improved had it […]

Attack on Titan vols. 1 & 2

Outside of the fact that they’re continuing to publish “Battle Angel Alita:  Last Order” and the “second season” of “Genshiken” Kodansha’s line of manga hasn’t really impressed me that much.  That’s mainly because a lot of it does seem skewed towards a younger audience, which is understandable since those titles tend to be the most […]

Elephantmen vol. 1: Wounded Animals

This is a series that I’ve always been interested in, but just never got around to checking out for one reason or another.  A few Amazon gift certificates from friends last year helped change that.  So after reading this impressively thick and well-priced volume ($20 for over 300 pages of comics), I’ve come away not […]