Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel Tales by J. Michael Straczynski The famed writer of “Babylon 5,” “Amazing Spider-Man,” and “Midnight Nation” has been doing a series of one-shots for the publisher featuring a number of unlikely team-ups. Captain America and Volstagg. Nick Fury and Fing Fang Foom. Hulk and Doctor Strange. Ghost Rider and Galactus (well, that […]
Kitty Pryde is done being an X-Man. After everything that went down towards the end of the Krakoan Era, and what she became during that time, she just wants to live a normal life free of mutant drama. Which is why she’s currently slinging drinks in a Chicago bar. The problem is that mutans are […]
Penny was living a good life with her loving parents, Samantha and Duncan, until she fell asleep one night and didn’t wake up. Doctors and modern science weren’t able to provide an explanation, so when a man named Tash Severin glides into their lives with his flock of owls and promises that he can help […]
The Minstrel and his daughter Karli are wandering from town to town singing about the exploits of the man named Groo. And there are so many to choose from! Such as the time he tried to help out some towns by converting them into scenic ruins. Or when he accidentally consigned a bunch of kids […]
Vol. 13 of this series ended on a triumphant moment of forgiveness, capping off an installment where it looked like Thorfinn’s vision of a land without war was genuinely possible. So if you wanted “Vinland Saga” to have a Mega Happy Ending then you should’ve stopped reading there. While I enjoyed that volume, it was […]
While Cyclops and his band of X-Men are busy getting back to the business of being public-facing superheroes, another group is still trying to figure out what their next step will be. That would be Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, and Jubilee (with a visit from Nightcrawler) as they head down to Louisiana to crash with another […]
It may be early in Batman’s career, but he feels he’s got a handle on how to handle the human thugs and freaks he encounters in Gotham City. Then a mob from the East End hires an alien for protection who manages to clean his clock and the Dark Knight realizes he has a lot […]
At the end of vol.3, the remaining crew of the Defiant – Worf, Spock, B’Elanna, and Ro – found themselves at the mercy of Sela’s father, General Revo. When this volume begins, we find out that Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro have been press-ganged into abducting some key Romulan officials while Spock has been sent to […]
Ruri Aoki was your average junior high school student, until the day she woke up with horns growing out of her head. It turns out that her mother has been keeping a big secret from her: That her dad is actually a dragon. Now Ruri has to go through life knowing that and looking like […]
It was inevitable, after all. When Jonathan Hickman radically redefined the “X-Men’s” place in the Marvel Universe it felt like a genuine breath of fresh air after years of doing the same ol’, same ol’. It was such a dramatic change to their status quo that it felt like it couldn’t last forever and that […]