Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
When I brought in this volume to read at work earlier this week, I told one of my friends that unless it was really good it was going to be the last one I buy. He said “okay” but thought that my decision was a little strange after noting that I had spent in the […]
That’s a particularly apt subtitle, and one that will surely annoy longtime readers of this series, as the title character is (once again) absent for the majority of the volume. This time we’re treated to the battle between Zekka and Toji’s “Space Karate” team against the seeded Venusian team who specialize in bio-engineering rather than […]
While this series has accomplished many things over the course of its English-language run so far (such as being consistently hilarious, and successfully satirizing some of heavy metal’s more outrageous aspects), I think that its greatest achievement in the end will be making me look like a complete ass. Since the beginning of its run, […]
Two volumes in and mangaka Tsutomu Nihei’s latest work to be translated into English continues to be a stellar example of how to properly do style over substance. Badass synthetic human Zoichi Kanoe and his AI partner Fuyu continue their quest to stop the evil machinations of the Data Recovery Foundation by blowing up lots […]
This was the only manga I picked up at Fanime this year since it was the only thing I could find there at a discount. The first volume was a surprisingly gripping tale of a group of survivors trying to make their way out of a department store that had been devastated by an earthquake… […]
Providing further proof that there exists no premise that can’t be made into a manga is the first volume of Hisae Iwaoka’s “Saturn Apartments” which is a pleasant slice-of-life look at window washers in the upper stratosphere. In the future, mankind has evacuated Earth in order to preserve what’s left of it and everyone now […]