Manga and Comic Reviews
Now that I’m no longer expecting this series to chart the course for the Marvel Universe going forward, it makes for a more entertaining read. Stark and his longtime friend James “War Machine” Rhodes are hot on the trail of the biohack ninjas who were following Madame Masque in the previous volume, and that has […]
I don’t have much experience with the title character, who is being properly re-introduced to the “Turtles’” current continuity after a mostly off-panel cameo in vol. 13. Save for fighting him as a boss in “TMNT IV: Turtles in Time” on the SNES. Yet I still felt his introduction here left something to be desired. […]
The first volume of this series offered up some engaging stories that showed why the magazine “Battle” was so well-regarded in Britain while it was published, and why we get so many war comics from Garth Ennis (who has presented both volumes). If you’ve got an interest in either of those things, then go pick […]
The saga of the boys’ stint in the school’s prison finally comes to an end in this volume. It’s not a spoiler to say that their efforts to find evidence of the Shadow Student Council’s “Expel Boys Operation” is successful. But you’ll have to read the volume itself to find out how clothing switches, impersonations, […]
The good news here is that co-writers Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden followed through on my hope from the previous volume. We see a further thinning of the cast in this penultimate volume of “Baltimore” and a fleshing out of a couple of the existing members. Harish, the Indian soldier, and Kidd, the British smith, […]
It’s cute how the text on the back cover of this volume dances around the big twist in this newest volume of Steve Rogers’ adventures as Captain America. We’re told that “The original sentinel of liberty is back!” and is focused on rounding up the villains on the run from Pleasant Hill, taking down the […]
Two volumes in and I’m still not as engaged as I feel I should be with this series. Picking up from the ending of vol. 1, time travel is introduced as a major plot point as Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves thrust into the strange future of 2016 where they’re greeted by an adult […]
The last volume of “Black Science” marked a surprising turnaround. Instead of continuing to show how things got worse for its dimension-hopping travelers, things focused entirely on leader Grant McKay’s character and how he finally realized what he’s been doing wrong and how to make it right again. That trend continues in vol. 5 as […]
I believe I made my complete and total dislike of this title’s current villain, Harusada Tokugawa, honored mother of the shogun, pretty clear in my review of the previous volume. Re-reading said review, I regret more the fact that I used the word “power” three times in the space of two sentences than any of […]
Out of all the new characters introduced in “The Force Awakens” it probably makes the most sense to give Poe Dameron his own ongoing series. After all, “hotshot pilot for the Resistance” does offer up a wider variety of story possibilities than “growing up on Tatooine” and “growing up as a stormtrooper” (though, in the […]