Manga and Comic Reviews
W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo are the writer and artist, respectively, behind Image’s sleeper-hit weird horror series “Ice Cream Man.” I’ve only read the first volume and it managed to not be all that weird, scary, or present me with a compelling reason to come back and check it out further. That’s probably a […]
In the last volume, Thor died! He died so hard that this series had to be relaunched as “Mortal Thor” and he’s (almost) nowhere to be seen here. You know who is here to be seen? One Sigurd Jarlson, a bulky Swede who struggles with his English and tries his best to be a good […]
When Mariner drags Boimler through another wild time in the lower decks, it’s down to Captain Freeman to bust her chops for it. Yet was Carol really any different from her daughter when she was her age, and why does this cause her to think of an encounter with Romulans involving former U.S.S. Enterprise-D medical […]
Gyoro and Johnny were left sinking in a mudpit as they faced smoldering doom from the animals outside of it when we last saw them. Things seemed really dire for our protagonists, but Gyoro has a plan that involves Johnny’s fingernail bullets that might just save them – provided the younger man can learn it […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: G.I. Joe vol. 4: The Hunt For Energon It may be subtitled “The Hunt for Energon” but payoff looks to be the name of the game for the fourth volume of this series. I mean, just look at that cover. Duke’s hatred of all things Cybertronian following his close encounter with Starscream has […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel’s Most Villainous: Magneto In case you hadn’t heard, Dark Horse is getting into the Marvel reprint business with themed and prestige collections coming your way. “Marvel’s Mightiest Monsters” is also in these solicitations and you can look forward to a black and white collection of Barry Windsor-Smith’s “Weapon X” next time. While […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Iron Man by Joshua Williamson vol. 1: A New Nightmare His early work definitely struck me as being too formulaic for its own good, but Joshua Williamson’s runs on “Superman” and “G.I. Joe” have shown me that the writer is capable of finding new twists on old properties. That’s what I’m hoping to […]
Last time, the crew of the Quin Zaza managed to bring down an epic dragon: The Descender! Now they’re ready to party with the locals, the Malotao, to commemorate the occasion. A night of fun, fashion, and furious revelry is had by all with the morning giving way to the all-new spectacle of a horde […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Adventures of Superman: The Book of El “Superman: The Warworld Saga” didn’t just collect writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson’s three-volume epic, it also collected his “Future State” work with Superman and other comics that established his take on the House of El’s far future status. That stuff was surprisingly great for being a non-canon […]
The prequel miniseries were fine. The first volume was okay. The second volume was a big step in the right direction as it offered more character, promising setups, and payoffs on previous setups than we’d seen from this side of the Energon Universe yet. That boded well for what was set to kick off in […]