3.0 Review: Ryuko VOL. 1 Is At Odds With Itself Jason Jeffords Jr. July 16, 2019 Indie, Manga, Reviews, Titan Comics Titan Comics (w/a) Eldo Yoshimizu Awhile back Titan Comics announced their first Japan title in the Hard Case Crime line, Eldo Yoshimizu’s...
5.0 Review: A Wondrous Journey With “Wandering Island Vol. 2” Jason Jeffords Jr. February 7, 2019 Dark Horse, Manga, Reviews Dark Horse Comics (W/A) Kenji Tsuruta In recent years, manga and most forms of entertainment seem to push only have a few genre’s at the...
Review: ‘Mangasia’ is a Fascinating Journey Through Asian Comic Art Jason Sacks November 27, 2017 Books, Reviews Mangasia is a must-buy for anybody who wants to learn about the history of comics in nearly two dozen Asian countries. Master comics historian...
When Japanese Influences Meet Western Art Schools: a roundtable J.A. Micheline May 19, 2017 Manga In late March, a wave of discussion took over Twitter’s comics community on the topic of using manga- and anime-inspired art styles while in art...
JAM’s Top 10 for 2016 J.A. Micheline December 27, 2016 Miscellaneous Comic Book Content Editor's Note: While most other comic websites push their writers to collaborate on one definitive list of the "best" comics of 2016, Comics...
Glitterbomb & Helter Skelter: Studying Image From Without & Within Claire Napier September 7, 2016 Image, Indie, Manga, Reviews The thing about Glitterbomb is that it reads so male. Not masculine — male. As in not by women, but about them. I say “them” despite being a...
Keeping It Ghastly: Magical Girl Apocalypse Vol 1 Shelly Atomic July 15, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga The tag line reads, “Not your mommy's magical girls”. Oh boy is that the truth. This time on “Keeping It Ghastly” we'll be taking a look at...
Spitting Out Osamu Tezuka’s “Swallowing the Earth” Christopher M. Jones June 29, 2016 Columns, Comic Book G-Forces, Reviews Welcome to Comic Book G-Forces, a bi-weekly column that serves as a hybrid of new and republished criticism from comic book writer Christopher M....
Keeping It Ghastly: I Am A Hero Ombnibus Vol 1 Shelly Atomic May 13, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga Hideó Suzuki has a hard time with social interactions, but when he's alone it all seems alright. He has locked doors to keep out intruders, an...
Keeping It Ghastly: Franken Fran Omnibus Vol 1 Shelly Atomic April 29, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga It's the stuff of 1950s and 60s double features that drives Katsuhisa Kigitsu's stories of grotesque medical misadventure. Fran Madaraki is the...
Keeping It Ghastly: Nijigahara Holograph Shelly Atomic April 15, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga This time on "Keeping It Ghastly" I'll be crawling out of the catacombs of my English-language horror manga collection and going over something a...
Keeping It Ghastly: Blood Sucker – Legend of Zipangyu Vol 1 Shelly Atomic March 18, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga Resurrected three centuries after his defeat at the hands of the samurai Naonosuke, the powerful vampire Migiri has reasserted himself as a deadly...
Keeping It Ghastly: The Drifting Classroom Vol 1 & 2 Shelly Atomic March 5, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga What time is it? Kazuo Umezu time! From the creator of Scary Book, Orochi: Blood and Reptilia comes a sci-fi horror series aptly named The Drifting...
Keeping It Ghastly: Biomega Vol 1 Shelly Atomic February 5, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga 2016 is turning out to be a Sci-fi horror year for me. I rewatched The Thing, Event Horizon and Alien, read Parasyte vol 1 for Comics Bulletin, and...
Keeping It Ghastly: Another Shelly Atomic January 8, 2016 Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga Welcome to 2016! In the last week Iran and Saudi Arabia have been at each other's throats, the gun debate in the US has reached a tipping point,...