Manga and Comic Reviews
Is there anything that can stand in your way after you’ve achieved ultimate power? This volume of “One-Punch Man” has the answer: Bureaucracy! With his unbeatable power Saitama should be a shoe-in for joining the S-rank of superheroes after he and Genos go to sign up with the Hero Association. Yet for all of his […]
I hope everyone reading this had a good Thanksgiving. In addition to hanging out with family and catching up with a cousin I haven’t seen in YEARS, I also discovered the merciless satire of Illuminating Comics. Aside from providing some well-deserved skewering of Marvel’s editorial direction and relaunch frenzy, it has provided the only take […]
In a rather large oversight, I failed to mention what will likely be the biggest book of the month in my last roundup of Previews Picks for Image. “The Walking Dead” hits issue #150 in January with a dramatic cover and title, “BETRAYED,” to mark the occasion. Who will Rick be betrayed by? Before we […]
After escaping from his current timeline (again), multiversal special agent Casanova Quinn finds himself in Hollywood without his memory. Now living as Quentin Cassaday, he works as a majordomo for Amiel Boutique, a man of wealth and influence in the community. Boutique has a similar problem to Quinn as the old man can’t recall anything […]
(The podcast is running late this week due to some last-minute scheduling issues. If it’s not up by sometime this weekend, then expect it next Wednesday and a new one to follow a week after.) After delivering the excellent “My Friend Dahmer,” John “Derf” Backderf decided to go mine a (debatably) more pleasant time in […]
My instincts turned out to be right and here we are with the penultimate volume of this series. Scientist Ochiai has successfully managed to transplant his consciousness into the other hybrid, Kanata, and is all set to destroy the Sidonia. Only some quick thinking from the now-promoted Vice Commander Midorikawa manages to avert this crisis. […]
So who is writing “The Dark Knight III?” It was originally solicited as a collaboration between Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello, but the former has made some interesting statements in recent interviews over the past week. Essentially they’ve given the impression that this second sequel is from Azzarello as opposed to a collaboration with Miller. […]
2015 is coming to a close, and I realized that it’s been a while since I’ve mentioned “Eden: It’s an Endless World!” on the blog. So let me reiterate that it’s the one series that I think everyone who visits here regularly should be reading. Full of heady sci-fi concepts and intense action, it never […]
Five years ago, I expressed my delight with the cute kitty antics depicted in the first volume of “Chi’s Sweet Home.” The series has reached its conclusion with vol. 12 and the reason you never read another review after the first… is because my feelings on it never really changed. Mangaka Konami Kanata’s art continued […]
Readers with long memories might recall that I was very much looking forward to reading this new graphic novel from brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon when it was announced earlier this year. After titles like “Daytripper” and “B.P.R.D.: Vampire,” and their work as artists on projects from the likes of Joss Whedon, Gerard Way, […]