Manga and Comic Reviews
After the “not bad, but not great” “Astounding Wolf-Man” and the utter creative and commercial misfire of “The Infinite,” Robert Kirkman has finally replicated the creative and commercial success of “The Walking Dead” and “Invincible” with this series. At least, that’s what the hype and buzz told me. Working with a rotating cast of writers […]
The concept behind this spin-off from “Invincible” was simple: While the title character was out in space fighting “The Viltrumite War” we’d get to see what the other superheroes, and professional behind-the-scenes-string-puller Cecil Steadman, were doing to maintain order on Earth. Co-written by series creator Robert Kirkman and Benito Cereno, with art by talented newcomer […]
Greg Rucka is leaving Marvel and DC behind and he’s got some fascinating words to say about the two companies. I may have more to say about that at a later date, especially when you consider that while the A-list is stronger than it has been in quite some time for DC, everything else below […]
Sometimes it’s a painful reminder to realize that while these are only solicitations for the serialized comics from Dark Horse arriving in December. Any collected editions being featured here will be arriving two months later (as always) in February. Considering that something I’ve been eagerly awaiting since it was announced by the company is shipping […]
It’s frustrating that the next volume in Kieron Gillen’s run hasn’t actually come out yet, that would be the “Fear Itself” tie-in arc which is scheduled to arrive in paperback next month, but since this picks up from “Schism” it’s not that big a deal. This is the title focusing on Cyclops’ team, made up […]
This also hails from the same Extreme relaunch that gave us “Prophet” but it’s not in the same class. Briefly: as Supreme was Rob Liefeld’s Superman analogue who later gave Alan Moore the license to tell the kinds of stories he wanted to but couldn’t with DC’s icon, Glory is his take on Wonder Woman. […]
Much like “Ultimate Comics Hawkeye” I suspect that this mini-series owes its existence to a desire to get as much product featuring the title character out into the marketplace in time to tie in to his movie. While this is also written by Jonathan Hickman, it’s not part of a larger storyline and does a […]
I wasn’t planning on turning this into “Jonathan Hickman Week” around here, but that’s how things wound up being shipped to me. While I have one more Ultimate title of his to talk about tomorrow, and even taking into account how much I enjoyed “Ultimate Comics Ultimates,” this is the one you should shell out […]
I don’t think the market was exactly clamoring for a mini-series featuring Ultimate Hawkeye. Were I a betting man, I’d say that the whole reason we got this when we did is because Marvel wanted some Hawkeye product in the bookstores in time for the arrival of “The Avengers” movie. Even though it comes to […]
I’ll admit that I wasn’t expecting much going into this. Though writer Jonathan Hickman has amassed a strong body of work over these past few years, there were reasons to be wary about this. Its critical reception could best be described as “muted,” sales were lackluster compared to previous volumes, and as the teasers for […]