Genshiken: Second Season Volume 8

I had hopes, from the beginning of this sequel series, that Genshiken: Second Season would be, like the first, a comedy set amongst nerds. I liked the portrayals of geek hobbies and fan pursuits of college students, with all the concerns and struggles they faced. Now, with volume 8, I have to admit that this has firmly turned into a harem series. Which makes little sense to me, since a whole bunch of characters are fixed on club alum Madarame, [...]
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Lumberjanes #31

Although well into the series, which launched two-and-a-half years ago, this issue keeps its eye on several key features that make Lumberjanes so appealing. Issue #31 is written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh and drawn by Carey Pietsch. First, there’s the teamwork. The girls are facing off against a giant bird with medusa-like powers to turn anyone who sees it into stone, accompanied by Diane, a teen goddess exiled from Olympus, and Ligo, a Gorgon. They have to work [...]
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The Trickiness of a Three-Panel Structure

On Twitter recently, Melanie Gillman had a terrific breakdown of the latest page from As the Crow Flies. It’s a lovely little lesson in the kind of details artists think about to improve readability. They called the two left, bigger right structure “one of those panel structures you’re Not Supposed To Do in comics” because readers in a left-to-right language may go in that order instead of reading down, then across, as intended. Oh, forgot I wanted to talk about [...]
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Interview With Margaret Stohl, Author of Black Widow: Red Vengeance

Now available is Black Widow: Red Vengeance, a YA novel by Margaret Stohl featuring the Marvel Comics superspy. It’s a sequel to the popular Black Widow: Forever Red from last year. In Red Vengeance, Natasha Romanoff and Ava Orlova (introduced in the previous book and created by Stohl), aka Black Widow and Red Widow, have teamed up to “stop a conspiracy involving stolen nuclear warheads, mind-altering chemical weapons, and ultimately, betrayal by old friends and enemies alike.” It’s a globe-trotting [...]
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Daredevil Comes to Blu-ray, First of the Netflix Marvel Shows on Home Video

Disney has announced that Marvel’s Daredevil, the first of the four Netflix Marvel TV series, will be available on Blu-ray in November. Daredevil stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who’s also an avenging vigilante. Vincent D’Onofrio plays Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, with Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page and Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson. The first season, 13 episodes, comes to Blu-ray on November 8. No word on any extras, and no mention of a DVD version. [...]
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NY Times Tackles Superheroine Costuming, Forgets About Creator Rights

There’s an article titled “Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit?” at the NY Times. This debate — whether superheroine costumes are unnecessarily sexualized, the impracticality of the outfits (made more visible with the rise of cosplay), and the disparity in treatment for both female characters and fans — is nothing new to clued-in superhero comic industry viewers. The piece is a tie-in by a fashion columnist to the recent news that Wonder Woman has [...]
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Interview With Kel McDonald on Buffy: The High School Years and Misfits of Avalon

Out this week in comic shops is the second installment of the graphic novel series Buffy: The High School Years, which revisits the core Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters during the first season of the TV series. Glutton for Punishment was written by Kel McDonald, who was kind enough to talk with me about this book; her written-and-drawn series Misfits of Avalon, also published by Dark Horse; and a few other projects. Want to find out what’s next for Buffy: [...]
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Resident Alien: The Man With No Name #2

We’re firmly into the mystery here in Resident Alien: The Man With No Name #2 (of 4), but it’s the subtleties of the character interaction that I enjoy most about the series. A downtown building has burned, and the firefighters discover that the ruined warehouse was probably a meth lab. As the investigation continues, we get some crisp scenes between the authorities and some of the sketchier inhabitants of the area, doling out bits of information and characterization. Peter Hogan [...]
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The Fuse #22

I have this sinking feeling that this storyline, “Constant Orbital Revolutions“, may be the last for The Fuse for a while. (Issue #22 is part four of the arc.) Maybe that’s because it’s unusual for a solid independent comic to plug along these days for more than a couple of years, and this is the fourth volume the series has under its belt. Or maybe it’s because so much of the premise is being severely shaken up in this story, [...]
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Dark Horse Puts Out a Second Free Emergency Comic

Two years ago, Dark Horse Comics and the Oregon Office of Emergency Management put out a digital comic called Without Warning!, a project geared to helping teens prepare for earthquakes and increasing awareness of what to do in such a situation. Now there’s a sequel! Without Warning! Tsunami is by the same creative team, writers Jeremy Barlow and Althea Rizzo and artist David Hahn. Matty and her mother have been camping. They’re packing up, preparing to return home, when an [...]
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Harvey Awards Leaving Baltimore, New Home Not Disclosed

Look, I had nothing to do with it. I was complaining about how the Harvey Awards were easily manipulated last week, and now comes news that the Awards are leaving Baltimore, but I’m sure those things are unrelated. We don’t know how much is actually changing, beyond the location. The Harvey Awards, previously partnered with Baltimore Comic-Con, will now instead work with ReedPOP, which runs the New York Comic Con, Emerald City Comicon, C2E2, and a number of other events [...]
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All It Takes Is a Franchise

So many announcements this month, what with the ever-growing New York Comic Con, but this one caught my eye because of how little information it had and how unexpected (but sensible) it was. Dynamite Entertainment, home of comics starring James Bond, Betty Boop, Xena, Tarzan, and characters from Battlestar Galactica, Bob’s Burgers, and Grimm, among many other properties, has announced a bunch of new licensed titles coming next year. Among them is one aimed away from the traditionally male comic-shop [...]
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Dapper Men Comes Back to Print From Top Shelf

Return of the Dapper Men was an attractive, fairy-tale-like graphic novel by Jim McCann and Janet Lee published in late 2010 by Archaia (before they were acquired by Boom!). It won the 2011 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album — New but apparently went out of print somewhere along the way. Top Shelf (who is now part of IDW) has just announced that they will be republishing the book next year. Here’s the book description: Welcome to Anorev, a land [...]
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What Is the Biggest Graphic Novel Published?

Got the following press release recently. Kingstone Comics, the nation’s largest publisher of Christian comics, is releasing the most complete graphic novel adaptation of the Bible ever published. The Kingstone Bible bring[s] together leading Christian writers with illustrators with credits from Marvel and DC Comics. With over 2,000 pages and 10,000 art panels, The Kingstone Bible is one of the largest graphic novels ever published. I was kind of curious to see what a one-volume, two-thousand-page graphic novel would look [...]
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X-Men: Apocalypse

I didn’t see X-Men: Apocalypse in theaters. This past summer, I was pretty burned out on superhero comic movies, and I wasn’t blown away by the trailer. But I like the concept of the X-Men, especially with the revamped prequel setup and cast. Overall, watching the movie made for an enjoyable weekend afternoon. I had a fun time with the film, particularly since KC and I could stop the movie and talk about comic history, or roll our eyes at [...]
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Dark Horse Brings Gaiman’s American Gods to Comics Now That There’s a TV Show

Dark Horse has announced that they will continue their line of Neil Gaiman comic adaptations (after success with How to Talk to Girls at Parties, the recent Troll Bridge, and others) with a higher-profile title: American Gods. The novel, first published in 2001, is being adapted into a TV series for Starz, debuting next spring. The comics will launch about the same time, with the first appearing March 15, 2017. The story will become 27 issues, grouped into three story [...]
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I’d Like to See Verity Willis Again

I’m not a fan of the Asgardian comics, those about Thor and his buddies, because I find the mythology overwhelming. But there was one aspect of the Loki: Agent of Asgard run a year or two ago that I really liked, and that was the introduction of Verity Willis. She was created by Al Ewing and Lee Garbett in Loki: Agent of Asgard #2 (cover-dated May 2014), and she’s the perfect best friend for Loki, the god of lies, because [...]
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Marvel Announces Digital Hulk Animated Movie for Halloween

Marvel announced that they would be premiering “the first animated, feature-length film centered on Hulk” later this month. Marvel’s Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell will team the Hulk with Dr. Strange and the Howling Commandoes and be available beginning October 21 on Digital HD. Sounds like a neat idea and good timing for Halloween, but the “first feature-length” cartoon claim confused me, since I reviewed Planet Hulk, an 80-minute direct-to-DVD release starring the Hulk, back in 2010. Anyway, Where Monsters Dwell [...]
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Why It Matters When a Publisher Stuffs a Ballot Box

Valiant announced at the New York Comic Con just passed that they were doing a six-episode digital video online series called Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe. I don’t really care because it sounds like the goal is to show off more characters to garner more movie/TV bids, and the premise of a character who was never that distinctive fighting a bunch of others isn’t aimed at me anyway. But something in the overly puffy press release really struck me. Consistently [...]
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Hellboy Wine Debuts on Halloween

There’s a tradition of pop culture-related alcohol, whether it’s Star Trek wine or Thor whisky. Now there’s going to be a Hellboy wine. Dark Horse Comics and the Stoller Family Estates Winery (out of Portland, Oregon) have created the 2011 Hellboy Reserve Pinot Noir. It will be released on Halloween and can be preordered now. From the announcement: Our Reserve Pinot Noir is sourced from a selection of our best vineyard blocks and barrels in the cellar. It is barrel [...]
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Legends of Tomorrow Returns Thursday – Here’s a Teaser Trailer

The second season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow debuts this coming Thursday, October 13, and here’s a jam-packed teaser trailer: You’ve likely heard that the Justice Society (including Vixen) will be appearing this season, but so will Albert Einstein, the Queen of France (getting it on with Sara Lance), more Jonah Hex, Damien Darhk (from Arrow), Eobard Thawne (from The Flash), ninjas, zombies, and Supergirl. Looks like a promising ride!
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John Patrick Green’s Next Book

The next project by John Patrick Green, author of Hippopotamister and artist of Teen Boat, has been announced. According to Publishers Weekly, First Second will be publishing House Kittens, a series of two graphic novels about kittens who build houses, beginning in Fall 2018. I really liked his Hippopotamister, about a hippo looking for the right job, and House Kittens seems in the same vein. Who can resist hard-working kittens?
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Amazon Bans Providing Items for Review (Except Books)

The development of reviews on Amazon is a mini-history of the internet, in a way. At first, it allowed you to hear from people who’d already had experience with something you were interested in buying. Then it became a way to create memes (with goofy reviews of simple pens) or gang up on people whose ideas you disagreed with (as when people downvoted Raina Telgemeier’s Drama graphic novel just because it included happy teen gay characters). Soon, it became a [...]
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Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma Volume 14

The work-based stories begun in the previous volume continue here, as Soma takes on another internship, this time in the kitchen of a prestigious French-inspired chef (and former student at the same school). He’s opening a new restaurant in Tokyo, and he’s so demanding that his tastes exceed his budget, requiring his workers to take on all kinds of jobs to make an eventual quality experience for his customers. Working in an actual restaurant kitchen, with multiple tasks needing to [...]
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Constantine Now Available on Home Video

The forgotten black sheep of the DC comic TV show family is Constantine, because it’s the one (so far) from the modern era that’s gotten cancelled. Thirteen episodes ran on NBC from October 2014 to February 2015. (With a followup guest appearance on Arrow the next year that was quite good.) It was a strange choice to begin with — the comic Constantine was known for his anti-hero status, for friendly characters getting killed, for pushing boundaries, for bad language [...]
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