Manga and Comic Reviews
I really liked the first volume of Titan Comics’ “Boodborne” series by writer Ales Kot and artist Piotr Kowalski. It managed the really tricky task of adapting a game with a famously abstract/inscrutable/hard-to-parse story and communicated its style quite well into the medium of sequential art. That didn’t last as while vol. 2 was solid, […]
Commander Zahra is dead and the Rebel Fleet has been reunited. Everything looks to be coming up roses for the Rebellion, especially after they smash up an Imperial Unity Day parade being broadcast throughout the galaxy. However, the Empire is always up to something, and that something is usually kept secret until it’s ready to […]
I’ve never followed Dick “Nightwing” Grayson’s solo adventures before, but when you’ve got writer Tom Taylor taking over and his “Suicide Squad” partner, artist Bruno Redondo, working on it that made me take notice. What we have here looks to be a back-to-basics approach to the character as he has returned to the city of […]
Theo Teth-Adam – Black Adam to his friends, enemies, and the general superhero community – is dying. The reason why is a mystery, but the time has come for him to pass on his legacy to one of his descendants. In this case, the lucky recipient winds up being one Malik White, an African-American medical […]
Mangaka Sumito Oowara has made a habit of keeping each volume of “Eizouken” relatively self-contained. In that each volume is about the Moving Pictures Club’s latest animation project. That’s not a bad thing, though, the lack of strong continuity between volumes leaves each one to stand on its own, as this one does a little […]
Given that he’s currently going one-for-three in completing creator-owned series (and the one he did complete, “Sea of Stars” was a two-volume story co-written with Dennis Hallum) you’d think I’d be worried about starting another one from writer Jason Aaron. Well, even if he’s not good at finishing them, I wasn’t disappointed by “Southern Bastards” […]
Crew 513 is a brigade of thirty female prisoners who are part of a special group that have been trained to help put out forest fires. “Wildfire” focuses on a group of four, Sawyer, Zinn, Ramos, and Brooks, and their C.O. Ruby Ma Ning – “Ma” to her crew – as they fight against the […]
The princess Briar Rose had it all. A loving family, intelligence, beauty, and the favor of seven fairy godmothers seemed to ensure she was going to lead a charmed life. Then she pricked her finger on a spinning wheel, fell into a deep slumber, was found by a charming prince who decided to marry her, […]
Vol. 10 ended with Claw and its leader Toichiro Suzuki having established their domination over the city and looking to extend it to the entire nation. Oh, and the Zodd-looking Shibata had tracked down Reigen, Dimple, and an unconscious Mob and was about to squish them into the floor. Meanwhile, Mob’s brother Ritsu and Toichiro’s […]
Another volume, another chapter in the ongoing war against the Monster Society. You could say that this storyline has been going on long enough to make it feel interminable, or just admit that this is “One-Punch Man” now. To that end, there are a lot of little narrative beats that do a good job of […]