Manga and Comic Reviews
Tsutomu Niehi is certainly an acquired taste. The mangaka behind “Blame!” and “Biomega” definitely prefers style over substance and his storytelling can be frustratingly opaque more often than not. However, his art is certainly distinctive with its Geiger-esque influences and the narrative in “Biomega” showed that he was growing as a writer. So when Vertical […]
So the biggest news to come out of these solicitations is that Geoff Johns will be wrapping up his tenure as writer of “Green Lantern” in May. As I’ve said in the past, his contributions to the character of Hal Jordan and the “Lantern” franchise are immense. Not only did he turn the title into […]
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 […]