Manga and Comic Reviews
Lord Henry Baltimore’s quest to rid the world of the Red King kicks off with the building of his party to do the job. That’s the thread which binds these two stories, starting with “The Witch of Harju” and the introduction of the title’s new regular artist Peter Bergting. In it, Baltimore and company find […]
Much to my surprise, this second volume manages to be a better read than the first simply by sticking to its guns and continuing on from what was established before. No, the secret underground assassin school of Kings Dominion isn’t developed much more here, but I’m more in tune with what writer Rick Remender is […]
After some fifteen-odd years of reading it and nearly eight alternately spent talking and writing about how good it is, the final volume of “Blade of the Immortal” has arrived for me. So yeah, I’m going to spend some time savoring the experience this evening. If these words don’t convince you about how big a […]
After two years of regular bi-monthly serialization (save for this volume), the inevitable has happened with this series: “Sidonia” has finally caught up to the latest volume released in Japan. It also picked a fine note for that to happen on here. The opening phallocentric (no, really, it is) chapter and two that follow offer […]
I don’t usually go in for videogame special editions, but the one being offered for “Final Fantasy Type-0 HD” had something that really caught my eye. That would be a 200-page manga that (as of this writing) isn’t available anywhere else. In addition to all of the other bells and whistles the special edition came […]
“VINLAND SAGA” LIVES AGAIN!!! Kodansha USA announced last week that volumes six and seven of this excellent series will be released this September and December, respectively. Even though I was having a good time at WonderCon when I read this news, finding out about “Vinland Saga’s” eventual return to print was the highlight of my […]
Speaking of “time running out,” here we are with the next volume of the series that heralds the end of the Ultimate Universe. The previous volume did an excellent job transitioning Hickman’s narrative eight months into the future and this latest one keeps most of the momentum from it intact. It’s an impressive feat considering […]
There’s this anime my friend Steve watched years ago called “E’s Otherwise” that he likes to harp on from time to time. Not because it was particularly good or terrible, but because it was so average at everything it did. It was just there, existing as an example of anime and nothing more. That’s what […]
After “The Reign of the Black Flame” brought the ongoing story of this series to its latest climax point, it should be expected that these stories which followed it would be of a more low-key variety. So we have the title story, a three-issue arc where Kate Corrigan winds up getting possessed by a necromancer […]
“Seraphim… my bastard child. Yeah, that’s not finished either.” That quote is from the final chapter of Satoshi Kon’s “Opus” as the author remarks on his other unfinished manga series, which was written by none other than Mamoru Oshii, director of the first “Ghost in the Shell” anime. Editor extraordinaire Carl Horn was considering using […]