Manga and Comic Reviews
Cafu takes over for Bryan Hitch as the regular artist for “Venom” with this volume. Even though he’s got a relatively grounded style, he’s good with the craziness Ewing asks him to draw here. From symbiote-on-symbiote fights to metaphysical depictions of Eddie Brock’s current state of mind there’s a lot to like about what he […]
Devin Fulcher hasn’t been having a good time as of late. It turns out that the woman he loves, who is also his fiancee, has been sleeping with one of the biggest asshole cops in town. Worse still is that she’s now pregnant with his kid, and her father, the town sheriff, is still insisting […]
We reach the climax of this arc towards the end of this volume, but before we get there we’ve got to spend some more time with Philomela. Not that it’s a bad thing as the saga of this poor, put-upon, and deprived girl has been one of the strongest plot threads of the “College Arc.” […]
For those of you who haven’t heard, Donny Cates was in a bad automobile accident over six months back. This is the reason he abruptly stopped writing “Hulk” and “Thor” and why Ryan Stegman will be writing the majority of “Vanish” vol. 2. He’s not back to 100% yet, but I’ve heard that he’s been […]
Vol. 6 certainly felt like the end of this series, and writer Peter Hogan acknowledges that in his foreword to this volume. He also notes that there was still business to wrap up, specifically involving the will-they-or-won’t-they tension between Dr. Harry Vanderspiegle and his nurse friend Asta. With a title like “The Book of Love” […]
You’ll probably recall that I wasn’t that impressed with writer Charles Soule and artist Steven Cummings’ previous story about Q’ira and Crimson Dawn, “Crimson Reign.” It suffered because it couldn’t overcome the nagging feeling that none of what went on here would matter given that none of it came up in “Return of the Jedi.” […]
“Dark Crisis,” or to use its full name “Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths,” was a DC event written by Joshua Williamson and illustrated by Daniel Sampere. It involved the rest of the DCU trying to save everyone from the evil Pariah’s Dark Army in the wake of the Justice League’s “death.” I couldn’t be bothered […]
The dungeon has a new master. It’s not Laios, though. Marcille has taken the position all to further her grand goal: Adjusting the lifespans of all the races so that one doesn’t live longer than the other. Her hand may have been forced in this matter by the Canaries, but when we catch up with […]
Dan Slott’s tenure on this title was enjoyable, but not the expectation-defying home run I was hoping for after his legendary “Amazing Spider-Man” run. Ryan North, a talented Eisnter-nominated writer who’s been working at Marvel for a while on “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” and a host of well-received miniseries, is now taking over along with […]
Radiant Black isn’t just one person anymore after the events of vol. 3 – it’s now two. Or rather, two people, Nathan and Marshall, sharing the suit and the powers. They’re managing this new setup pretty well, until the powers start glitching out. That’s a bad thing by itself, and it becomes worse when a […]