Manga and Comic Reviews
What I like most about Dark Horse Publisher Mike Richardson’s documented love of short stories is that Mike Mignola loves to exploit– er, make that, utilize the publishing opportunities it provides. This means that in the gaps between collections of the next “proper” arcs of “Hellboy” and “B.P.R.D.” we occasionally get volumes like this that […]
Longtime readers will know that I’ve banged the drum quite loudly this year in getting people to pick up vol. 13 of “Eden: It’s An Endless World!” when it arrived after a two-year wait. It’s not the only Dark Horse Manga series to have gone on “hiatus” as their catalogue is littered with titles that […]
Chief Red Crow prepares his re-election campaign. Agent Nitz reaches the bottom of the barrel and finds the “War on Terror” there. Catcher finds out that God’s role for him is quite different from what he thought it was. Carol continues to adjust to domestic life. Dino Poor Bear doesn’t get the girl. Shunka gets […]
After seventeen volumes, Osamu Tezuka’s best long-form series comes to an end. There have been over a hundred stories involving the title character’s miraculous medical prowess and the majority of them have been good, if not excellent. It’s certainly entertaining to see him break the laws of medical reality on a near-regular basis, but it’s […]
Vol. 19 of “Slam Dunk” is almost as thrilling as its previous installments. We’re still knee-deep in the Shohoku/Ryonan match and even though the former begins the second half by six points, Rukawa shows he still has plenty in the tank to help make up that deficit. Not one to be outshone by his rival, […]