Manga and Comic Reviews
I’m sure that I’m reading “Bokurano” right now for different reasons than the majority of its American audience. Having seen the anime adaptation that came out a few years back, I’m more interested in seeing how it deviated from its source material. After all, not many directors go public with their dislike of the manga […]
When the patriarch of the Locke family is killed by one of his former students, the rest of the family decides to head back to their home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. As Robert Crais noted in his introduction to this book, if you’re planning on putting your life back together you DON’T move to a town […]
(Or, “Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 23” for those of you keeping track at home.) After the hiccup that was “Ultimatum,” writer Brian Michael Bendis sweeps most of it under the rug and gets back to telling stories about comics greatest hard-luck superhero. On one hand, he’s now appreciated by NYC’s police force. On the other, he […]
Twenty months after the arrival of vol. 3, the fourth volume of “Ghost Talker’s Daydream” has finally arrived on American shores. For a while I’d figured that this series had gone the way of other Dark Horse Manga titles like “Satsuma Gishiden,” MPD-Psycho” and “Eden” and been quietly “cancelled.” I was disappointed that we weren’t […]
I should’ve written this review right after the one for “Counter X” but nearly a decade went by before someone decided to bring back Nate Gray. This makes me look good in comparison… right? Aaaaaaaaanyway… This mini-series was spun out of the events of “Utopia” after Norman Osborne decided to create his own team of […]
After the world-shattering events of the last volume, writer Robert Kirkman dials things back for the latest one. Of course, “dialing it back” by “Invincible’s” standards involves the title character being forced to square off with an all-powerful alien amazon while the sequids decide to unleash their long-gestating plan to take over Houston… and then […]
I wasn’t really blown away or fearsomly disappointed by writer Terry Moore’s first volume of “Runaways,” but I’m not sorry to see him depart the series three issues in to this volume. What we have here is a bog-standard superhero plot where an evil DJ and his voodoo-priest buddy turn everyone in L.A. who has […]
Some background on this first: Back in the day when Warren Ellis getting all sorts of attention for his work on “Transmetropolitan” and “The Authority,” Marvel approached him with the opportunity to re-make three satellite X-titles in his own image. These titles were “X-Force,” “Generation X,” and “X-Man.” Of the three, this was the one […]
What I like most about the “Hawaiian Dick” series is that writer B. Clay Moore and artist Steven Griffin (with Nick Derrington) do such a great job of capturing the time and place of Hawaii in the 50’s. The island atmosphere, the clothing style, the low-fi feel of the times — it’s all here. They’ve […]
Cut down as an ongoing series before it completed its first arc, this spin-off from “Astonishing X-Men” still manages to tell a very satisfying tale. “No Time to Breathe” is an apt sub-title for this volume as it chronicles one very hectic day in the lives of Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Department co-leader Abigail […]