Manga and Comic Reviews
First things first: Whoever wrote the summary text for the inside cover of this volume deserves a real *slow clap*. I mean really, ending with “…until the enemy’s tentacles threaten to overwhem her,” suggests an entirely different experience than what this series (or pretty much any title released by Viz) is about. Part of me […]
The wait for this volume was still worth it. Granted, most of this volume doesn’t focus on mountain climbing and almost seems to go out of its way to focus on the series’ weaknesses. I’ve said before that writer Yumemakura Baku has a tendency to over-write many scenes, leaving NO DOUBT AT ALL as to […]
This month’s big launch is Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s “Happy” which is quite a feather in the company’s cap. It comes down to Morrison’s involvement as, aside from his stint on “New X-Men” and a handful of smaller projects, the writer has been joined at the hip with DC since the start of his […]
This isn’t going to be another post on how good the series continues to be. Yes, this volume represents a major turning point as Rick and co. manage to not kill the emissary from another encampment and find out that there are a lot more survivors out there than they first imagined. It all leads […]
“Avengers vs. X-Men” wraps up this month. It’s hard to be invested in it right now as many are already talking about Marvel’s publishing plans in the aftermath. With Bendis leaving “Avengers,” Hickman leaving “Fantastic Four,” and Fraction rumored to be leaving “Thor” and “Invincible Iron Man” that leaves a lot of the company’s core […]
In the 1940’s Will Eisner, creator of “The Spirit,” coiner of the phrase “sequential art,” arguable father of the graphic novel, ran into some static from the Army brass when he used comics to teach soldiers preventive maintenance. However, when the higher-ups decided to see whether soldiers retained and used the information better when reading […]
So it appears that Carl Horn was on to something when he kept referencing vol. 13 of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” in his notes from the current volume. There’s also more Yasuhiro Nightow manga than you can shake a stick at here… which is apparently two volumes. But one of them is a three-in-one […]
The podcast has been recorded, but we don’t have a way to get it off the recording device. ETA is now either late tomorrow or Sunday.
There are times when I think that Garth Ennis just looks through his collection of books, albums and movies and thinks, “Yeah, this’ll be a good title for the next arc of ‘The Boys.’” More often than not, there’s a kind of random disconnect in the way that the titles sometimes fail to properly convey […]
This coming September marks the one-year anniversary of the “New 52” and we’re getting another stunt to celebrate. There will be no “regular” issues solicited this month — only flashback “zero” issues designed to illuminate key points in the history of these characters and series. Some of them, such as the ones from the “Green […]