Manga and Comic Reviews
After eight (really sixteen) volumes you’d think that “Prison School’s” schtick would be firmly established by now. The boys act like knuckleheads — maybe one gets caught with his dick out, the girls embarrass themselves in dealing with the boys — maybe one gets caught hanging from a doorknob by her panties, and everything is […]
From the realm of “How the hell did this happen?!” comes the announcement that Dark Horse has licensed the “Mob Psycho 100” manga. It’s from ONE, the co-creator of “One-Punch Man,” and focuses on a con man who exploits a kid with psychic powers to run a ghostbusting operation but also has to act as […]
The good news is that Marvel currently has two titles that are generating lots of buzz and burning through reprints of multiple issues at the same time. “Amazing Spider-Man” has been generating interest due to the mystery of who the Red Goblin is as Dan Slott builds to the finale of his run in issue […]
Image recently cancelled a large batch of comics that had been previously solicited. The good news is that most of these titles were not on my radar, so no big deal. Unfortunately fans of titles like “Mirror” and “Southern Cross” are now going to have to deal with not finding out what happens in these […]
Is DC headed for a “Fresh Start” later this year? In the neverending quest for better buzz and sales, the company is rumored to be planning a refresh of their line around Fall of this year. Said refresh will consist of the kind of new first issue relaunches that we’ve come to expect in this […]
It’s (red) dragon slaying time! After the opening chapter catches us up with Namari and her party, adding some to the title’s mythos and doing a bit of foreshadowing along the way, the rest of the volume is focused on taking down the dragon that wiped the party back at the beginning of the story. […]
Vol. 1 made for a pretty great showcase regarding family matriarch Grace Briggs as she took a hardline stance to asserting control over the title land and detoxing her husband’s influence over it. I was expecting great things from the follow-up, but the problem with vol. 2 is that the focus shifts from Grace to […]
Longtime readers should know that I’m a big fan of James Stokoe’s work. So when Dark Horse announced that he’d be working on an “Aliens” miniseries for them, I was really excited. After all, Stokoe had shown that he can do excellent work when it comes to licensed material in his “Godzilla: The Half-Century War.” […]
This is an odd volume in the series in that it’s as upbeat as this title ever gets. With the Whisperer War and Savior threat behind them, the residents of Alexandrea and Hilltop set their sights on rebuilding. There are signs of discontent, Dwight is still angry at Rick for killing his ex in self-defense […]
Yes, I really should’ve reviewed this back when it came out around the beginning of March. Mainly because this series is almost as sales-challenged as mangaka Hiroki Endo’s other series published out here, “Eden: It’s an Endless World!” The fact that it was a solid six months between the publication of volumes five and six […]