Manga and Comic Reviews
I was expecting the upward trend in quality represented by the stories presented in the first volume to continue here. The idea is that Fujimoto was getting better with each new manga he made, right? “22-26” shows that wasn’t quite the case and the quality of a creator’s work doesn’t follow a straight line. However, […]
Daniel Warren Johnson is one of the best artists in comics. Full stop. Not only does he bring a lot of detail to every page that he draws, but there’s an incredible energy to it all as well. Whether it’s a war-torn science fantasy civilization, heavy metal imagery invading real life, or the heroes of […]
This is a reprint of a two-part miniseries from the 90’s (plus a “Dark Horse Presents” short from 2015), back when Frank Miller could regularly be counted on to produce quality work – whether he was writing or illustrating. He’s doing the former here, paired up with artistic sensation Geoff Darrow as the two channel […]
“Defenders: There Are No Rules” was an entertaining high-concept miniseries from writer Al Ewing and artist Javier Rodriguez that saw the team traveling back in time through the conceptual ages of the Marvel Universe. It was successful enough that we’re now graced with its follow-up, “Beyond,” that sees Adam “Blue Marvel” Brashear leading an even […]
That’s right, this is going up on a Tuesday night. Why the change? With there not being a direct link to the podcast as part of the blog, there’s a three-day gap every other week now. To deal with that, I’ll be posting things every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and every other Wednesday when a […]
This is a volume of table-setting as we see lots of different factions getting their affairs in order before the fighting starts. We check in with Duke Guiscard first as he delights in having found a way to get rid of his brother, the king: Have the newly captured Princess Irina do it as she […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Innocent Omnibus vol. 1 What we have here is something much rarer than I’d like it to be in solicitations from Dark Horse. That would be the debut of a new manga series without any ties to film or TV. “Innocent” is the fictionalized story of Charles-Henri Sanson the executioner for the French […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Black Cloak vol. 1 “Heart in a Box” was an excellent graphic novel that took an obvious premise – a young woman gives up her heart to escape a recent heartbreak and comes to regret the decision – and wrung a genuinely engaging story from it. It came to us courtesy of writer […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus HC vol. 1 Now here’s something I never thought I’d see in these solicitations. To recap: Rom was originally a toy made by Parker Brothers that Marvel published a tie-in comic for back in the (very) late 70’s/early 80’s. While the toy came and went without much […]
The ongoing narrative of this series kicked into high gear at the end of the previous volume and that momentum carries through the entirety of vol. 17. While Philomena’s awakened form isn’t able to cause (much) more damage at the college, she still manages to slip outside the wards guarding the place. Where is she […]