Manga and Comic Reviews
While “Scalped” has certainly been one of the grimmer series to come down the Vertigo pipeline, it has yet to reach the point where the darkness overwhelms the story or the characters. That’s because at the end of vol. 4, it reached the point where I figured series protagonist Dash Bad Horse had hit rock […]
It’s the stuff dreams are made of. Almost literally in the case of the title object here. This latest installment in the adventures of John Gaunt, a.k.a. GrimJack, has him tracking down a rare statue with mysterious powers. The problem for him is that not only does its current owner have it under lock and […]
There’s still some fun to be had from reading these volumes, as the core idea of Norman Osborne leading a team of supervillains posing as the Avengers is a lot of fun. That is, if your idea of fun is seeing a group of anti-social manipulators, crazies, and outright psychotics try to work together as […]
It’s a testament to skill and focus of mangaka Nobuaki Tadano that the intimacy of this series isn’t lost when things start happening on a much larger scale than we’ve seen before. With the entities Maelstrom and Horizon now both residing in Hikaru’s body, you’d expect a volume full of “Odd Couple” shenanigans. Wouldn’t you? […]
I thought that the first volume of writer Warren Ellis’ “Astonishing X-Men” was an interesting failure. It had a lot of good ideas, coupled with the man’s talent for razor-sharp dialogue, but it also managed the dubious trick of feeling both too slow and not long enough to allow its story to really work. As […]
A few weeks ago, Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool reported that Vertigo’s original graphic novel line was part of the “walking dead.” This is in the sense that no new OGNs were being scheduled and the only ones that will be seeing release are those too far along in the production cycle to be […]
Or, part one of the redemption of Matty Roth. It’s not called that because I imagine writer Brian Wood finds such sentimentality anathema to his style. The volume’s title comes from the dead soldiers Matty finds in a crashed helicopter while hiding out from pretty much everyone after the tragic events of the previous volume. […]
A few months back, I was really bitchy somewhat critical of the titles Kodansha announced after they assumed control of Del Rey’s line. It’s not that any of those titles sounded bad, just that there didn’t seem to be any targeted to me to a more mature readership. Flash forward to earlier this week and […]
If you’ve been hanging around comics news sites on the internet as long as I have, then you’ve probably heard a lot about this series. Specifically, how good it is, how it influenced a lot of other series, and how it has yet to be collected. Over a year ago I picked up the miniseries […]
This volume represents the longest story the series has told to date. In fact, it’s so long that I didn’t realize at first that it actually started in the previous volume. Go figure. Anyway, Misaki is still on vacation at a hot springs resort in Hakone, trying her best to escape from the pressures and […]