Manga and Comic Reviews
This latest volume in what is shaping up to be writer Warren Ellis’ most substantial and best post-”Transmetropolitan” work (yes, even better than “Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.”) not only answers some questions, but also raises new ones right out of their ashes. After a brief detour showing us the “world-ending” event that the kids performed […]
The last time I talked about this series, I mentioned how it was setting the stage for war journalist turned political player Matty Roth’s downfall. While Matty has proved adept at reporting and putting human faces on the crises of the DMZ, he has always been one step behind the political and military forces that […]
The podcast will be coming either much later tonight or more likely tomorrow due to a bad day of epic proportions on the part of the uploader. In the meantime, this latest volume of “Jack of Fables” finds the series in transition. With all of its stories and supporting cast sent off to parts unknown […]
IT’S A CUTE KITTY MANGA!!! Uh… and there’s not much more to say than that. If you’re a cat person like me, then you’ll find it impossible to resist this series’ charms as mangaka Konami Kanata does an incredible job of making Chi’s behavior both familiar and utterly believable to any cat owner. My main […]
In the space of a week I’ve read two comics that have featured surprise same-sex hook-ups. The first one happened in the pages of John Layman and Rob Guillory’s “Chew vol. 2” while the second appeared in vol. 2 of Masayuki Ishikawa’s “Moyasimon.” Both were quite surprising to read, though it was more surprising to […]
While I generally enjoyed the first volume of this series, it was essentially just setup for future stories and its “surprise twist” at the end wasn’t very surprising. Now that these “future stories” are here, I can say that “Chew’s” future is looking pretty bright. Re-teamed with his old partner, cibopath Tony Chu is sent […]
In case you’re wondering about how writer Tim Truman and artist Tomas Giorello’s run on “Conan” has been going — it’s still quality stuff. While this volume won’t make a believer out of anyone who isn’t already a fan of the legendary barbarian, it’s still an entertaining, action-packed adventure. “Black Colossus” finds our protagonist falling […]
I wasn’t expecting much from this volume, now that the title character’s ongoing story had FINALLY gained some direction and momentum, but it turned out to be one of the better short story collections this series has offered up. That’s mainly due to the title story which has Hellboy trekking through the Appalachian wilds with […]
When I was last talking about Marvel’s merry mutants, I mentioned how the “Utopia” crossover set up a potentially interesting new direction for the franchise. After butting heads with Norman Osborne and his Dark X-Men and Avengers, all of mutanity has found itself living just out of his reach on a re-purposed Asteroid M in […]
For future rundowns of my ten favorite comics in a given year, I think I’ll have to set aside one slot solely to determine which was the better Robert Kirkman title of the year: “Invincible” or “The Walking Dead.” While vol. 11 of “The Walking Dead” did a great job of smacking genre conventions upside […]