Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
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 […]
While I’m aware of The Shadow’s status as one of the legendary characters of pulp fiction’s golden age, I can’t really say that I was chomping at the bit for new stories about him. Not unless a creator I really liked was involved, of course. So it happens that Garth Ennis wrote the first arc […]
Jeffrey Dahmer was easily one of the most infamous serial killers of the last century due to the horrific and deeply disturbing nature of his crimes. Those of you wanting details of that beyond the cannibalism and necrophilia would be encouraged to check out his Wikipedia page or by Googling him. However, before he was […]
I honestly didn’t think what I read here was possible. Though the “Fear Itself” tie-in arc was an improvement over the execrable Stark-becomes-Doc Ock’s-bitch storyline of “Unfixable” it still left me with the feeling that the title’s best days were behind it. Now with two volumes left to go, the Fraction/Larroca run heads into its […]
This doesn’t reach the ridiculous comic heights of “Goodbye, Chinatown,” but it’s still a fun capper to Jason Aaron’s run on “Wolverine” proper. After all this is a story that starts off with the title character on a plane to Japan where the in-flight attendant passes out samurai swords to everyone else on the plane […]
Warren Ellis’ name may be on the cover of this graphic novel, but it’s not his show. This is all about Steve Pugh, a veteran artist with a long history of work with DC, Marvel, and numerous other companies. I’m familiar with him through his collaborations with Garth Ennis on the “Preacher: Saint of Killers” […]
The first story in this collection, “The Devil’s Engine,” is another good bit of supernatural action consistent with the series’ high standards. It picks up from where Agent Devon and the homeless “psychic” Kate Fenix were left at the end of vol. 2 as the latter tries to bring the former back to B.P.R.D. headquarters, […]
Much like the juggernaut that is “The Walking Dead,” this new series from Image also deals with the dead returning to walk the Earth. That’s where the similarities stop as “Revival” takes a dramatically different approach to that particular subject. The dead here don’t return as shambling husks, but just as they were before they […]
Over the years, the team of writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema has been responsible for some of the best “Star Wars” stories to come out of Dark Horse. Initially they introduced us to amnesiac Jedi Quinlan Vos and his struggle to stay on the light side of the Force while going undercover in […]