Manga and Comic Reviews
Warren Ellis does zombies! …and the results play out like a prototype for “Crossed.” Does Garth Ennis have to pay him royalties, or buy him pints whenever they go out drinking? Who knows. Anyway, I bring up the “Crossed” comparison because the “zombies” here aren’t really the living dead, but people who have had their […]
Why did I wait until Comic-Con to pick this up? In spite of all the acclaim this storyline has received Amazon has yet to offer up the softcover edition for less than the hardcover. I don’t know why that is, but I wasn’t going to go for it until that happened. Then I spotted it […]
Even after a year that has included the wildly successful launches of “Fatale,” “Saga,” “Thief of Thieves” and what will likely wind up being the sales event of the decade with “The Walking Dead” #100, Image showed no signs of resting on their laurels at their panel on Saturday afternoon. Yes, I know it sounds […]
Saturday started off on a sobering note for my group. Not due to anything that happened to us personally, but because of the panel we attended. “The Fight to Defend Manga” was a panel hosted and moderated by Charles Browenstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, that examined the ways in which […]
I don’t know how I managed to wake up before 8am on Friday, but I did and it allowed me to attend the JManga panel at 11am. JManga is a portal site where you can buy and download translated manga, legally, from a consortium of Japan’s biggest publishers. I haven’t gotten around to checking it […]
Comic-Con has come and gone and I’ve got a ton of new material for reviews and podcasts. Expect something about “Atomic Robo” in the very near future, assuming I can find a way to tie it in to “Batman: Earth One.” So when I wasn’t on the show floor rifling through the bargain bins, I […]
“Criminal” was consistently excellent. I can’t wait to see what happens next in “Incognito.” “Sleeper” is one of my all time favorites which I also loan out to friends with an interest in reading comics. With a history like that, my expectations for this latest collaboration from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips were sky high. […]
Long before Dark Horse got the rights to publish “Conan” comics, Marvel had the rights themselves and published hundreds of them from the 70’s through the 90’s. The vast majority of these were written by Roy Thomas, who is at this point a living legend for his contributions to the superhero genre based on his […]
Yeah, the ending of the previous volume was a real bummer wasn’t it? Seeing Miria get chopped down after heading off to crush the Organization by herself, you’d think a valiant warrior like herself deserved a more glorious death than that. One where we get to see the body. Anyone familiar with certain genre conventions […]
New volumes of “The Goon” have essentially become an annual event, so it was particularly disappointing that the previous collection turned out to be the title’s lowest point. The good news is that this volume represents a return to the series’ demented, twisted, depraved, utterly mental and frequently very funny form. Here, the highlights include […]