Manga and Comic Reviews
Last time was all the setup for the latest “Hellfire Gala” and “Fall of X,” and I mentioned that it didn’t exactly get me excited for the idea of Marvel’s Merry Mutants losing to a secret science organization that hates them. Again. So I guess it’s appropriate that the five issues collected here are… perfectly […]
Keanu Reeves’ first comic series “BRZRKR,” co-written with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney, was something of a misfire. The story of an immortal berserker named Unute was very self-serious and more concerned with dishing up bloody action than an interesting story. I liked the parts where the story threatened to get weird in […]
The saga of the Schlong Slicer comes to a climax here after Junna brings the foreigner back to her apartment, with all hell breaking loose shortly thereafter. What should’ve been an easy takedown by experienced ninjas winds up being a three-way free-for-all involving a drone as the foreigner proves to be more capable than initially […]
I don’t know why this one-shot wasn’t collected with “Ultimate Invasion.” Maybe it’s because Bryan Hitch didn’t draw it, but this still features very capable work from Stefano Caselli. I wonder because it contains some story beats that flow directly from that miniseries and directly set up events for the first three “Ultimate” titles. The […]
Saying “around the turn of the millennium” is something that makes me feel old, but it was when Marvel unleashed their one imprint that genuinely resonated with me: Ultimate Marvel. The concept was “What if the Marvel Universe had started today?” and the results took the industry by storm. “Ultimate X-Men” was a blockbuster right […]
The first volume of this revival of the venerable British series “Battle Action” was an anthology spotlighting a wide swath of characters that featured in it over the years. All of the stories were written by Garth Ennis who also provided commentary on why each of them mattered to the magazine. To him as well […]
Not too long ago, Poison Ivy and Metallo showed up in Metropolis and led to a team-up between Superman and Batman (and Robin). Then Superman got hit with a Red Kryptonite cocktail, causing him to hallucinate and lose control of his powers. That’s when Niles Caulder and his Doom Patrol had to be called in […]
This is one of those series that I’ve heard about for years, but never actually read until now. That’s mainly because no one ever thought that it would be licensed for the longest time as its subject matter and tone were decidedly non-mainstream for the American market during its publication from 1994 through 2006. Slice-of-life […]
After four volumes we’re finally getting to the part of the manga that wasn’t covered by the anime (yet – Season Two is coming this summer). We’re also getting a look at another aspect of the Japanese entertainment industry as Aqua, along with Kana and Aakane, is recruited to be part of the theatrical adaptation […]
“Choose.” That’s what the robot at the heart of Radiant Black told Marshall and Nathan at the end of vol. 4 after they tried to figure out what was going wrong with their power. It turns out that only one of them can be the hero in this story after all and it’s up to […]