Batmanga

Gift Guide: Manga and Anime For Western Comics Fans
Gift Guide: Manga and Anime For Western Comics Fans
Gift Guide: Manga and Anime For Western Comics Fans
From its days as unfamiliar black-and-white single comics discovered as if by chance in Western comics shops, manga has become the biggest-selling sector of the comics industry, and an influence on dozens of creators in the North American industry. Much like Western comics, manga is for everyone, so if you know someone who loves comics but has never got into manga, we've put together a gift guide with great ideas for books and movies that you can buy them this holiday season.
Preview: Batman Takes A Trip To Space In Final 'Bat-Manga'
Preview: Batman Takes A Trip To Space In Final 'Bat-Manga'
Preview: Batman Takes A Trip To Space In Final 'Bat-Manga'
Next week, DC will begin the final two-part Bat-Manga story that Jiro Kuwata created for Shonen King, and he's going out as wild as he can with a tale of the Dynamic Duo being kidnapped by aliens. Check out an exclusive preview, and don't forget to read right to left!
Jiro Kuwata Pits Batman Against 'The Robot Robbers
Jiro Kuwata Pits Batman Against 'The Robot Robbers
Jiro Kuwata Pits Batman Against 'The Robot Robbers
The next installment of DC's digital-frist reprint Jiro Kuwata's Bat-Manga involves Batman and Robin facing off against a trio of mechanical ne'er-do-wells known as the Robot Robbers, and let's be real here: if you're anything at all like me, that's all you need to know. If, however, you'd like a little more information, then I've got good news for you! We have in our hands an exclusive preview of the next issue, available on Comixology and other digital outlets this Saturday. And not only does it feature Batman duking it out with a robot robber, it also features the wondrous technology of his crime sensor.
Jiro Kuwata's 'Batmanga' Is A Superhero Comic Unlike Any Other
Jiro Kuwata's 'Batmanga' Is A Superhero Comic Unlike Any Other
Jiro Kuwata's 'Batmanga' Is A Superhero Comic Unlike Any Other
Readers demand a lot from superhero comics: consistency, continuity, adherence to the rules of the universe, compelling heroes, magnetic villains, satisfying endings, and the list goes on. But those of us who have been reading for years (if not decades) are chiefly looking for one big thing above all else: novelty. We want to see something we’ve never seen before; characters we recognize as the heroes and villains we love being put into scenarios and settings wholly unlike what’s come in nearly 80 years of superhero comics. That’s notoriously hard to do. Many times, stories end up being very similar to what’s come before, and when creators do try something new, they elicit complaints from readers who don’t like particular changes or decisions. But what if you could strip away those pressures and build a superhero comic that’s so strange and unique that it’s a must-read? That’s what Jiro Kuwata’s 1960s Batman comics, currently being republished as the DC Digital Series Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga, are. A strange combination of classic Batman comics, the 1960s Batman TV-show, Marvel-Age science-based storytelling, mysticism, cartoon physics, Tokusatsu, and of all things, Scooby-Doo, it isn’t like any comic I’ve ever read. It’s endlessly surprising, and I love it.
Batman And Robin Face ‘The Man Who Quit Being Human’ In ‘Batmanga’ Chapter 19
Batman And Robin Face ‘The Man Who Quit Being Human’ In ‘Batmanga’ Chapter 19
Batman And Robin Face ‘The Man Who Quit Being Human’ In ‘Batmanga’ Chapter 19
As much as I love the stories of Lord Death Man and Professor Gorilla, the one thing I was really excited about when DC announced that they'd be bringing Jiro Kuwata's Batmanga back into print after over 40 years was that they'd be getting to stories that I hadn't read. The collection that Chip Kidd put together a few years ago was, after all, just the tip of the iceberg, and it was the stuff that hadn't been reprinted that was going to get really weird -- and if you've been keeping up, you've seen just how strange things can be. In next week's episode, the current story comes to its climax with "The Man Who Quit Being Human," which, given that the previous story has featured the aforementioned Professor Gorilla, has been pretty surprisingly dark. Batman and Robin are facing down against a terrifying foe who wants to eliminate his mutated genes from his daughter, and it's pretty incredible. Check out a preview below!
New Batman Titles: Arkham Manor, Gotham Academy, Bat-Manga
New Batman Titles: Arkham Manor, Gotham Academy, Bat-Manga
New Batman Titles: Arkham Manor, Gotham Academy, Bat-Manga
Between three monthly titles, a spot in the Justice League, an ongoing weekly series in print and an ongoing weekly digital-first series, you might be under the woefully mistaken impression that there were enough comics about Batman going around to satisfy everyone's needs. If you are, then you, my friend, are wrong. We always need more Batman. And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so. Today, DC Comics announced not one, but three new Batman comics, set to be released soon: Arkham Manor by Gerry Duggan and Shawn Crystal, Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan, Brendan Fletcher and Karl Kerschl, and a digital-first collection of Jiro Kuwata's Bat-Manga, translated and reprinted in its entirety for the first time since it was originally published in Japan in 1966.