Manga and Comic Reviews
What’s the best way to establish a new villain’s credentials? Have him kill off a member of the main cast in his very first appearance. That’s what Negan, leader of The Survivors, did and it made him instantly hateable. Of course, death is really cheap in this series and a real bad guy in this […]
Come September it’ll have been two years since the start of the “New 52” and just as they did last year with “zero month” DC will be putting out a new event for this anniversary. “Villains Month” will see the start of a new mini-series called “Forever Evil” which kicks off from the premise that […]
As we were led to believe at the end of the previous volume, Sakuragi leads the charge in getting Shohoku’s momentum back through means both unconventional (yanking on a player’s jersey) and skilled (swatting a player’s lay-up down onto his shoe). Even though he’s doing his best, there are still other issues at hand, such […]
I’ve talked about mangaka Tsutomu Nihe’s evolution as a creator from “Blame!” to “Biomega,” and this volume manages to continue that trend. Now, the growth of Nihei isn’t the same as other writers as “Blame!,” for all of its fantastic art and mysterious nature, left me with the impression that he doesn’t quite get the […]
So you’ve got a series about a bath engineer from Roman times who makes a habit of falling into water and waking up in modern day Japan. Once there, he observes some notable aspect of their bathing culture and then tries his best to replicate it after he falls into water again and winds up […]
Thanks mainly to the writing of Paul Cornell, the first volume of “Demon Knights” was one of the more entertaining offerings from the New 52. While the overall story of several individuals of questionable character and great skill banding together to save a town from certain destruction has been done so often that it even […]
Today (at least at the time I started writing this) marks the fifth anniversary of the first post ever made to this site. More than anything, I continue to write, podcast, and post to this site because I don’t want to remain just a consumer of the comics I read. Before I started writing this, […]
The journey of young upper-atmosphere window-washer Mitsu and his friends wraps up in satisfying fashion with this volume. After the plant explosion, the lower levels have been sealed off from the middle and upper ones to prevent the chaos and rioting from spreading. Everyone down there prepares for the worst, and Mr. Nishimaru seizes this […]
You may recall that a while back I expressed my displeasure that this storyline was even happening. Since then, sales on the “Ultimate” titles have sunk even lower and there are rumblings of an “Avengers vs. Ultimates” event happening next year that will formally see the dissolution of this particular universe. If that event does […]