Comics and Graphic Novels

New Comics from a New Venue

The good news is I’m no longer being held prisoner by Mermen. The bad news is I’m now being held prisoner by Magma Monsters. See, I started tunneling out of my barnacled cell using a […]

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Comics and Graphic Novels

New Comics To Keep You Occupied

I write to you, dear readers, from the barnacled confines of a 6” by 4” cell made of sharp coral, tridents and kelp. Yep, you guessed it; I’ve been kidnapped by Merpeople. It seemed the […]

Marvel Comics

The Bane of My Existence

Well, at least my existence as buyer for Forbidden Planet: my monthly Previews catalog, due tomorrow.  550 pages (give or take, with Marvel Previews included) of pure Hell.  Nothing on this Earth vexes me so.  […]

Dark Horse

Berfday

One of my favorite cartoons from Nicholas Gurewitch.  This and Wrath of Khan are the first things that come to mind on the anniversary of anyone’s birth.

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Comics and Graphic Novels

Infinite Sadness: Aquaman

Comic books have a tragic hero to rival the heart wrenching figures of classic literature, such as Quasimodo, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Dobby the magical house elf. Often disreguarded and certainly underrated, this comic […]

Comics and Graphic Novels

What is Marvel 616?

Understanding the cryptic lexicon of comic book jargon can be like trying to rock a rhyme that is right on time, which is to say it can be tricky. Tricky. Tricky, (tricky) tricky (tricky.) […]

Comics and Graphic Novels

There’s No Such Thing As Too Much NGE

Okay, well maybe there is, I mean I really could have done without Angelic Days, and I’m pretty sure The Shinji Ikari Raising Project was only a step above that, (by the way, if you didn’t know NGE means Neon Genesis Evangelion, which is frankly too long a title to fit anywhere other than body text). The reason I’m bringing up Evangelion is because, that’s right, there’s a brand new series! Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse releases this week. Written and illustrated by someone only known as Ming Ming, which I sincerely hope is a pen name, or at least just a first name, this is a whole new spin on the fave series. In this new vision Shinji Ikari’s parents are gone, and he lives with his legal guardian, Ryoji Kaji, while attending the private NERV Academy. But no one ever told Shinji about its secrets . . . or that he’d find his fellow students Kaworu, Rei, and Asuka out on the streets late at night-fighting with sword, spear, and whip against an enemy that looks very human, but who Kaworu insists are beings called the Angels. […]

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Anime

Manga Drought 2010! What To Read When There Is No New Manga.

Jeez, I cannot believe this month. Last week all we get was one manga, and this week? Nothing. Well, okay there is one single item coming at us from TokyoPop, but I’m not sure if it can even be considered manga. And not for the usual reasons I don’t count half the stuff coming from TokyoPop as manga, this is going to be TokyoPop’s first legitimate single-issue comic book. Here’s the deal. You all love and remember Priest by Min-Woo Hyung (which technically makes it manhwa in the first place, but let’s not nit pick). Well coming out this week is the official comic for the upcoming Priest movie “Priest: Purgatory” that’s going to be starring Paul Bettany (Silas from The Da Vinci Code and the voice of Jarvis in Iron Man). Basically, A veil of evil threatens to engulf humanity, and one man stands in the way of the apocalypse: our hero, a fallen priest who sold his soul for the power to battle evil and fight for humanity’s redemption. […]