Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Resident Alien vol. 9: The Book of Changes Alien Harry Vanderspiegel has been through a lot since settling in the town of Patience and assuming the identity of its resident doctor. Now he’s retired, in a relationship with a human woman, who he has had a hybrid child with. It’s that last bit […]
The kings are dead? That’s certainly how it looked at the end of vol. 21 as a possessed Innocentis grabbed Andragoras and threw them both off of the tower they were in. It would take a formidable constitution (and a lot of luck) to survive such an act, so does this mean that Arslan is […]
Kal-El of Krypton is trying to do what’s best for the planet that he now calls home, but its inhabitants haven’t made it easy for him. Chief among them is the president of the Lazarus Corporation: Ra’s Al Ghul. Publicly, he’s your average self-involved billionaire businessman. Privately, he’s several centuries old, having revived himself multiple […]
Miles Morales came from the first Ultimate Universe, but he and his family have acclimated pretty well to the regular (616) Marvel Universe. The Maker came from there too, which is why he offered this Spider-Man the chance, in the form of a blank card, to come to the new universe he was making. While […]
Fran Miller authored what is widely regarded as the definitive run on “Daredevil.” He also wrote what’s widely regarded as the definitive story about a superhero coming out of retirement for one last go in “The Dark Knight Returns.” How no one has thought to do a riff on the latter story with the former […]
Who was Martha before she was the elite retainer to the Blackbell family? A soldier for Ostania who fought in the last war against Westalis. There she saw firsthand the horrors of armed conflict and only escaped with her life through a combination of luck and the kindness of strangers. Though her return home was […]
Dante Alderman is also known as The Vitruvian, a member of La Coterie de Sept, an organization that finds its plans for world domination at odds with those of V.E.I.L. As Dante explains it to his daughter, Annalise, V.E.I.L. exists to keep brilliant minds like his down in the name of maintaining the status quo. […]
Surprise, Etienne is alive! Despite the best efforts of “Jacky Magus” and Eliza Hellbound, the Apex Telepath survived his assassination attempt at the end of the previous volume. You would think that, having proved their untrustworthiness, his fellow Superpowers’ days would be numbered. Except that Etienne is a man who’s lived his life by doing […]
Wow. Who remembers “Mouse Guard?” When it started back in the aughts, David Petersen’s feudal fantasy series – with mice – looked like it could be the next big thing with all of the acclaim and positive word of mouth the first three volumes garnered. These volumes weren’t easy to produce, however, as the third […]
New mutants Melee, Bronze, and Axo are all cool with being trained by Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, and Bobby Drake to hone their mutant gifts. That won’t always pay the bills, however, so when a group internship opens up at Verate, the home of the social media app that uses people’s personal information to help […]