Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman: DC Compact Comics Box Set This is a value-priced collection of five “Superman” comics and one “Supergirl” comic. The collections are his modern origin “Superman: Birthright” by Mark Waid and Lenil Yu, the first “Superman/Batman” (vol. 1) by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” by Tom King and Bilquis […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Predator vs. Punisher #1 (of 4) You know, I think this is the “Predator vs.” series I’ve been waiting for ever since the license landed at Marvel. Wolverine, Black Panther, and Spider-Man may have all been worthy targets for the Yautja with their superhuman abilities. Frank Castle, however, is just a man. Just […]
Umiko Chino is a 65-year-old widow with a fondness for movies. She used to watch them all the time with her late husband, but has done this less often after his passing. When a spur-of-the-moment decision to get out of a bit of social awkwardness takes her into a screening of the latest horror movie, […]
Oil in the world of “Tankers” is eventually going to run out – just like real life! But don’t worry, the CEO of Greenleaf Oil has a plan. He’s had the greatest scientific minds working on a plan to time travel back to when the meteor struck Earth and killed all the dinosaurs, and just […]
The town of Port Linden was your average, quiet place with its conflicts and crimes being strictly of the small-time variety. Until Professor David Yao burned himself alive along with his research on the only bridge leading out of town. That would’ve been enough to keep Sheriff David Calhoun and his Deputy, Lenore, busy for […]
Orphan Mo put Chopper Teng to soup at the end of the previous volume and now she needs a bath something fierce. Fortunately there’s a nice bathhouse in town run by a pregnant woman and her doctor husband that fits the bill. This provides only a momentary respite for our protagonist as she’s quickly wrapped […]
If you had told me at the beginning of this Part that Lucy Steel’s devotion to her (significantly older) husband Steven would see her thrust into multiple dangerous situations, I would’ve laughed at the suggestion. Yet it’s that devotion that sees her playing on the sapphic affections of the President’s Wife, Scarlett, in order to […]
Jo “Sojourner” Mullien managed to not only escape the alien chaos that engulfed Evergreen, also managed to save her childhood friend Hal Jordan after he had been consumed by the Black Hand. With nowhere else to turn, she’s taken Hal back to the last person she wanted to see: Department of Extranormal Operations agent Cameron […]
Milton Shaw is a pilot who headed off to war to fight the fascists. He promised his wife that he’d be back as soon as his tour – twenty bombing runs – was over. However, on his twenty-eighth run he finds himself on the most crucial mission of his career: The destruction of the enemy’s […]
It’s the middle of the Great Depression and the town of New Hope, Oklahoma, isn’t living up to its name. Stricken by drought, plagued by enormous dust storms, more people are leaving each day in the hope of finding a better place to live. Sheriff Meadows isn’t one of them as he does his best […]