Manga and Comic Reviews
What I failed to mention in my last post was that I had already ordered vol. 10 of “Future Diary” from Amazon. It arrived yesterday with an unwelcome surprise: the glue binding the pages together had rotted out. So now I’m in the process of shipping it back for a replacement. I’d like to think […]
Tokyopop announced yesterday that their print operations in North America would be shutting down on May 31. The writing has been on the wall for a while, but I still didn’t think that it would come to this. After all, this was the company that started the manga revolution and brought affordable, unflipped manga […]
After the trauma of finding out that his girlfriend was a superhero, the awful thing she had to do to join The Seven, and their subsequent breakup, Hughie decides that it’s time to head back home to Auchterladle, Scotland to get away from it all. However, he finds out in short order that not only […]
While Peter Milligan is perfectly capable of working within the constraints of mainstream comics (read: ones featuring Marvel and DC superheroes), they usually don’t allow him to go into the full-bore weirdness and surrealism that became a hallmark of his Vertigo work. I mention this because that’s the kind of weirdness you get with “Kano,” […]
If I told you that this book was very “Milligan-esque” would that make you any more likely to pick it up? Or, would you have any idea who I was referring to? Writer Peter Milligan came onto the American comic book scene around the same time as Grant Morrison and Garth Ennis and in much […]
It has been remarked elsewhere that this new hit series from Image, by writer Nick Spencer and artist Joe Eisma, owes a storytelling debt to “Lost.” While that series focused on a group of castaways stranded on an island, and this one introduces us to a group of new students at the Morning Glory Academy […]
Image has been having a run of sleeper hits over the past year or so with titles like this, “Morning Glories,” “Carbon Gray,” “Nonplayer,” and more getting big buzz and selling out upon their release. “Skullkickers” arrived at the start of this trend and you have to appreciate the idea behind it. Imagine a buddy […]
Well, this third volume doesn’t make me want to stop reading the series entirely, but it doesn’t give me much hope for its conclusion either. We find out more about the Angels’ plans to spread their influence throughout the NERV Academy by way of a sinister computer game, but the overall plot never really becomes […]
Yes, it’s still awesome. But… Most Shonen Jump titles have always struck me as very calculated affairs. That’s “calculated” in the sense that you get the feeling that every plot twist, every shocking character moment, every last minute reversal occurs in a fashion to elicit the most emotional response possible from the reader. As the […]
Three volumes in and this series keeps getting better. While vol. 3 provides more answers and clarification to Tom Taylor’s quest to find the truth about his father and himself that’s not even my favorite part about it. What is, is how writer Mike Carey shows that this battle is going to be a struggle […]