Gus and His Gang By Chris Blain First Second, October 2008, $16.95 There must be some reason why the good Western comics – hell, pretty much all of the Western comics – of the past three decades have all come from France, but I don’t know it myself. France never had a West of its…
I haven’t reviewed books about sex in close to a month, so it must be time again, right? (As always, I’m reviewing what I have on hand, so, if you publish manga and want me to cover it, contact me at the e-mail address far below.If you don’t publish manga, but want me to review…
My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down By David Heatley Pantheon, September 2008, $24.95 Right at this moment, I know more of the minor details of David Heatley’s life than I do of my own. This is because I don’t typically spend my time obsessing about the minutiae of my past, while I have just spent…
Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire, Volume 1 By William Messner-Loebs IDW, July 2008, $19.99 Historical fiction is the odd duck of literature; it inevitably ages twice – once just because it’s set in a past milieu that even the original audience will be unfamiliar with, and a second time because it was really written…
Yen Press launched a new manga magazine last month called Yen+ (or maybe Yen Plus), to compete directly with those twin 800-pound gorillas of manga in America, Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat. I now have the first three issues here in my hands, so let’s take a look at Yen+ and see what’s in it….
Holy Sh*t! The World’s Weirdest Comic Books By Paul Gravette and Peter Stanbury St. Martin’s Press, October 2008, $12.95 This is the kind of book I’m actually surprised to still see – I thought “look at this weird stuff” books had been entirely superseded by the greater speed and flexibility of the Internet. (I can…
The Good Neighbors, Book One: Kin By Holly Black and Ted Naifeh Scholastic/Graphix, September 2008, $16.99 Holly Black is a major writer for young people – one-half of the team behind the phenomenally popular “[[[Spiderwick Chronicles]]]” (along with Tony DiTerlizzi) and the author of three dark contemporary-fantasy novels for teens, starting with Tithe. Getting her…
I haven’t done a week of jumping-into-the-middle in a while, so I thought it was about time to try that out again. This time, I have three books from Yen Press, all second volumes in series that I haven’t read before. So let’s see if they make any sense to me… Goong, Vol. 2 By…
Scrambled Ink Edited by Anonymous Dark Horse, July 2008, $19.99 [[[Scrambled Ink]]] is the latest in the recent flurry of comics anthologies by animators, following the high-profile and very successful Flight series (which recently hit its fifth volume) and the slightly newer but still popular [[[Out of Picture]]] (which had a second volume earlier this…
A Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child By Rick Geary NBM/ComicsLit, August 2008, $15.95 Rick Geary has been chronicling in comics form the crimes of past ages since “An Unsolved Murder,” one of his earliest stories. Most of those stories have been funneled into his “[[[Treasury of Victorian Murder]]]” series – first an…
This week was going to be Samurai Week, but I threw in a book about psychics for spice – just to keep it interesting. Dororo, Vol. 3 By Osamu Tezuka Vertical, August 2008, $13.95 This is the third and final book in a samurai saga from Tezuka, the “godfather of manga.” (I’ve previously reviewed volume…
American Widow By Alissa Torres; Illustrated by Sungyoon Choi Villard, September 2008, $22.00 Luis Eduardo (“Eddie”) Torres started a new job as a foreign exchange trader at Cantor Fitzgerald on September 10th, 2001. He was thrilled to get it – he’d been out of work for a few months, his wife, Alissa, was then seven…
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