Manga and Comic Reviews
“Green Lantern” made $53.1 million over the weekend. That’s not a great start for a film that cost around $200 million to make and an additional $100+ million to market. It could surprise everyone and decline by, say 35%, next weekend, but a trajectory closer to that of “Watchmen” is more likely. Now that the […]
I bought a lot of comics at Comic-Con last year, and if the first volume of “King of RPGs” wasn’t the best thing I read from that stack, it was still pretty close to the top. It turned its extreme nerdiness regarding pen-and-paper RPGs and collectible card games into an asset as writer (and public […]
Just letting you know that after some technical issues, I’m back online. While it was frustrating to not know why this was going on at first, the end result was relatively simple. There will also be some changes coming up in relation to this within the next month, but you’ll see that when it happens. […]
I mentioned that I had high hopes for this series in my review of the “Uncanny X-Men” collection which served as the launching pad for it. Now that I’ve read through this first volume, I can say that my expectations were mostly fulfilled. Writer Kieron Gillen and artist Salvador Espin deliver an entertaining, if familiar, […]
This latest installment in writer Ed Brubaker’s run on the series has a premise which demonstrates the right way to use old continuity in a story. And when I say “old continuity,” I mean a plot point from before I was born. It’s a pretty famous one, though: When current Captain America James “Bucky” Barnes […]
“DV8: Neighborhood Threat” has the distinction of being one of the few Warren Ellis written comics that I wouldn’t even recommend to his completists. That is, unless you want to see what it’s like when he can’t even muster up the energy to entertain himself and trades on shock value that won’t faze anyone familiar […]
King Radical, a motorcycle that used to be a unicorn, a monster who runs a chain of supermarkets, an ancient cult of tennis-playing South Americans, dolphins with guns, hamburgers made from Babe the Blue Ox, frost giants attacking McNinja’s hometown, and the awesome power of Frosty the Snow Monster! There’s so much crazy stuff going […]
It turns out that all of the good buzz I’d heard about “X-Men: First Class” before I saw it was entirely justified. The film did a fantastic job in telling its own story of Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr and the origins of the “X-Men” themselves. It didn’t stick very close to how these events have […]
“DMZ” is nearing the end of its run as the series is set to conclude with issue #72. By my calculations, this means that we’ll have at least two more collected editions to go before you can read the entire thing in paperback. While it hasn’t reached the rarefied heights of other Vertigo titles like […]
So why run a “Hellblazer” story as a mini-series rather than in the series proper? Looking at the various ones published over the years, it appears that most of them have a purpose. From providing a tie-in to the “Constantine” movie (“Papa Midnite”), to celebrating an anniversary (“Pandemonium”), to scouting prospective writers for the series […]