Manga and Comic Reviews
One thing I was disappointed with last year is that the “Dorohedoro” manga never went on sale at ComiXology. I say this because I’ve got nineteen more volumes left to buy and I’d prefer not to pay a premium for them, no matter how much I liked the first three and (especially) the anime. While […]
This volume’s first story involves Nene getting to know a young girl who is about to experience life with a completely different kind of cyberbody. Now, I expect this story to have a humanist sci-fi bent that takes the unusual nature of this cyberbody and spins a surprisingly touching tale that’s another showcase for our […]
This series has been treading the waters of “Not as Good as it Once Was” for a good long while now. I keep waiting for it to either step up its storytelling game or to give us some signs of its old, nasty self that thrived on shock value. What I was not expecting was […]
In the previous volume, Denji and most of the main cast went to Hell. Nobody goes to Hell in this volume. They just go through it. Starting with Power, who has been traumatized by her encounter with the Darkness Devil and can’t calm down as a result of it. Denji does his best to deal […]
You know, if this volume represents the last we see of Tanigaki in this series… I’m cool with that. Meanwhile, Sugimoto, Asirpa, and Shiraishi are on the trail of another tattooed convict, Botaro the Pirate. When they get word that a man with strange tattoos is working as a candy seller in a nearby town, […]
The first volume of this series was surprising. Surprising in the sense that I came away more impressed by the art from Daniele Di Nucuolo than the writing from Tom Taylor. That remains true here as the artist once again delivers some dynamic and exciting art that elevates the overall story. Which picks up after […]
How popular has “DCeased” turned out to be for the publisher? Popular enough for them to greenlight a fifteen-chapter digital-first series of comics telling additional stories in the same setting. “What kind of stories?” I hear you ask. Well, the transformed version of Black Adam that’s on the cover of the print edition should give […]
“DCeased” was a fun comic-book equivalent of a big summer blockbuster. Its follow-up “Unkillables” was an even more enjoyable story of what a bunch of familiar DC villains and anti-heroes got up to during the Anti-Life outbreak. Now we’re back with the actual sequel to the original miniseries, from its creators: Writer Tom Taylor and […]
There are a lot of great things about this series. One of the best is how it never forgets about its sense of humor. There may be points in the story where things take a turn for the dramatic, but there’s always been some kind of fun ridiculousness lurking underneath the drama to remind you […]
What do you do when the movie made out of your semi-obscure comic goes on to become a huge hit on Netflix but you’re not ready to release its third and concluding volume? If you’re Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez, writer and artist, respectively, of “The Old Guard,” then you put together an anthology of […]