Manga and Comic Reviews
Does the last volume of “Cable” provide a strong enough justification for the past 25 issues and change of Cable and Hope’s time-travelling odyssey? Nope. In fact, the “A Girl Called Hope” backup strips by regular series writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Steve Dillon provide a pretty good summation and encapsulation of the two characters’ […]
In terms of prose novels, I’ve probably read more by Stephen King than any other author. Not only has he written the scariest novels I’ve ever read (it still creeps me out to think about the short stories in “Night Shift”) but he hasn’t lost his touch after all these years (“Under the Dome” read […]
The late Steve Gerber was a firm believer against the idea of revamping existing comic book characters while their creators were still alive. He felt that such an act represented an act of contempt on the part of the new creators, and initially felt this way towards writer Jonathan Lethem’s proposed revamp of Gerber’s obscure […]
As you’ll recall I generally enjoyed J. Michael Straczynski’s run on “Thor,” except for the fact that its ending was so rushed and abrupt that it sucked most of the enjoyment out of the experience. Now we have interim writer Kieron Gillen picking up the threads from Straczynski’s run with Billy Tan joining him on […]
I suspect that the main reason for this mini-series’ existence was to provide more comics fodder for people who liked “Iron Man 2” to buy after they saw the movie. God knows that it doesn’t look like it was commissioned because writer Warren Ellis had a burning need to re-tell one of the iconic “Iron […]
I’ve talked before about how I feel that writer Peter David’s “X-Factor” is the one “X-Men” book that I’d recommend to people who aren’t necessarily fans of “Marvel’s Merry Mutants.” However, with the last two volumes, and now this one, the bloom is off the rose. Not that they’ve become bad, just that they’re now […]
Way back in vol. 2, “Kurosagi” did a volume-length story about the group getting involved with mysterious, murderous happenings with a company that specializes in undertaking. Despite a few plot holes, it was a satisfying tale that cemented the series as one to follow in my mind. Nine volumes later, we’ve got another extended storyline […]
More reviews are coming, but first… I was looking at the amount of “Star Wars” comics on my shelf recently and it hit me. Not the shelf, but a realization: By the time I stopped buying all of the “Star Wars” collections that Dark Horse put out (I think their “Darth Maul” mini-series was the […]
If you’re familiar with mangaka Hitoshi Iwaaki’s great, overlooked series “Parasyte,” then the premise behind this series may ring a few bells. Hikaru is a highschool girl who broadcasts her social aloofness to the world by wearing headphones everywhere she goes. She’d be perfectly happy without getting to know the rest of her classmates until […]
… and now we wait. Longtime readers and listeners will know that I think mangaka Kentaro Miura’s “Berserk” is pretty damn incredible. You’re also probably aware that I’ve expressed some concern with how the series will read now that Dark Horse is no longer releasing volumes bi-monthly now that they’ve caught up to the series […]