Manga and Comic Reviews
The usual bit of recent comics news analysis I put here evolved into its own post as I was writing it. You’ll see it up here tomorrow. In the meantime, it’s an all Dark Horse review-fest after the break! Berserk vol. 29 I could hear the whining of the people who only read this series […]
So Fanime was completely awesome. I went to lots of great panels (three of them involving Carl Horn), events (the masquerade was okay this year, and there was the “Restricted Rock Paper Scissors” game I participated in… and lost), and saw clips from movies that I now have to own (including “The Scorpio Incident” and […]
The anime club that I attend (or rather, hang out in front of with all of my other friends who graduated from the college that hosts it) has semi-regular shopping trips to the Frank and Sons collectible show and the Little Tokyo area each quarter. Generally it’s a great trip to pick up some comics, […]
So I did get around to seeing “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” over the weekend. I’m saving the bulk of my opinion on the assumption that we’ll be talking about it on “No Podcast for Old Men” in the next week or two, but I will say that I thought it was alright. Jackman nails the character […]
I’ve noticed for a while now that Marvel has been steadily raising the prices on their trade paperbacks. Where a collection of a 5-issues used to run you around $13-14, it’ll now run you anywhere from $15-20 these days, depending on how well the series sold in single issue form. While I’d say that the […]
Due to unavoidable family problems, no podcast for this week. While I’ve been able to get around to John’s on a pretty regular basis to record these, this weekend threw us a curveball. That said, I’m betting that John wishes things didn’t turn out like this more than I did. So instead of a podcast […]
Today was one of the rare Wednesdays where NOTHING I wanted was scheduled to ship, and the comic shop didn’t get in anything I asked them to order for me… Of course, that really won’t make a difference here since I generally don’t comment on the comics I’ve just bought for this column. I have […]
Back to the old format for this week. Three reviews below the break… X-Men: Legacy vol. 2 — Sins of the Father After the end of the “Messiah Complex” crossover, the “adjectiveless” X-Men title mutated into a Professor X solo book where he travels the world meeting with old friends and enemies in order to […]
I had heard two things about Warren Ellis’ newest series prior to reading it. The first was that it felt VERY MUCH like his defining series “Transmetropolitan.” The second was that it didn’t really start to differentiate itself and become interesting in its own right until issue eight, the last one collected in this volume. […]
In a break from tradition, such as it is, I’m not going to talk about three series this week. Instead, I’m just going to focus on one that’s been nagging at the back of my head for a little while now. “Oishinbo vol. 1: Japanese Cuisine,” written by Tetsu Kariay and illustrated by Akira Hanasaki, […]