Manga and Comic Reviews
This series hasn’t just been popular enough to spawn multiple anime adaptations, but spinoff manga series as well. While I’m sure that they were all done with mangaka Kore Yamazaki’s approval, I’ve never felt that Japan’s quality control on these things is really any better than America’s. So I’ve been skipping them and I was […]
Diana’s career in the Absolute Universe got off to a hell of a start in vol. 1 when she defeated the monster known as the Tetracide and saved her mother Circe from Hades’ clutches. She also knows that something is deeply wrong in the world of man and is not going to stop until it’s […]
Private Otis Fallows didn’t have to think. All he had to do was follow the orders from General McCoy, head of the Gaines Army Base in Southern Nevada. The General was overseeing a nuclear test and ordered his men to investigate the fallout from it. When they did, that’s when the people closest to it […]
Marco Mancini was free of the Shrouded College when he helped Sebastian and Maia in their struggle against the Poor Man. That help cost him his life and left his wife, Violetta, a widow. Even if it was working with his friends that got him killed, Violetta knows that it was all due to the […]
It’s time for the members of Oinokami’s hockey team to face their first real match! Coach Nihei has set them up to play against Sekka High in what you’d think would be a relatively normal game to ease these kids onto the ice. Except that Sekka is filled with hardcore delinquents and they make it […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DNX #1 (of 5) Marvel is sure going event-crazy in their recent solicitations. What with “Avengers: Armageddon” and “Queen in Black” having kicked off in the June solicits and this kicking off here. Of the three, this is the one I’m most interested in because you can draw a clear line to it […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC/Marvel: The Cosmic Kiss Caper and Other Stories As if it could be anything else this month. I was worried for a minute that we’d have to wait for another omnibus-style collection of DC/Marvel stories; but, thankfully both publishers aren’t doing that and we’re getting collections of their sides of these crossovers […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Wrestle Heist Wrestling promoters suck. The one in this story sucks even more because his actions have led to multiple wrestlers getting crippled and having to quit their chosen profession. So it’s not a hard decision for them to try and get their revenge by robbing the promoter blind during the biggest show […]
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 […]