Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Usagi Yojimbo vol. 33: The Hidden Though this is numbered as a proper volume of the series, it was originally released as a seven-issue miniseries. While the official reason for this was never mentioned, my gut feeling is that age is finally catching up with creator Stan Sakai and future “Usagi” releases will […]
Much of the focus of this volume’s first half is on Karluk as he goes off to live with Amir’s brother Azel and his friends on the plains for a while. Why’s he doing this? Well, any twelve-year-old boy with a twenty-year-old wife is bound to feel some insecurity about his masculinity. Now he’s learning […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: War of the Realms #’s 1 & 2 (of 6): I’d say that Marvel’s big event series of the year has arrived, but the way they’re running things these days you can bet it’s just the first of them. The odds are even that they’ll launch the next one before this wraps […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Sex vol. 6: World Hunger: Hey everyone, more “Sex!” There’s been a lack of new “Sex” in the marketplace for a while so getting some new “Sex” is great news! Best of all is that “Sex’s” return is going to be bigger and thicker than before! Better catch up on all the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cover vol. 1 & Pearl vol. 1: The former is about a comic book creator who is recruited to be an undercover operative by the CIA. The latter is about a tattoo artist who is also a Yakuza assassin. Linking the both together is the fact that they’re both written by Brian […]
When we left off with the main characters of this series, things had become really weird even by its standards. Having Hideo partially swallowed by a mutant ZDQ creature and not be digested was strange. Finding out that his current situation not only allowed him to exert some mental control over the creature, but to […]
Brian Wood has turned out some good work on licensed titles, including “Star Wars,” “Conan,” and “Aliens,” over at Dark Horse, so checking out his take on “Robocop” from BOOM! was a no-brainer for me. “Citizen’s Arrest” takes place thirty years after the events of the first movie with a resurgent Omni Consumer Products that […]
While this series hasn’t been on the level of writer Brian K. Vaughan’s best work, this penultimate volume actually puts it in a good place ahead of its finale. The girls, along with along with the Future Tiffany they picked up in the previous volume, have landed in the far future of 2171 and are […]
The solicitations for this latest “Black Hammer” spinoff miniseries made it seem like it was borrowing a lot from James Robinson et. al.’s classic series “Starman.” Not only was this set to feature a character with “Star” in his name, but it was also set up to revolve around the kind of fractured father/son relationship […]
As the penultimate volume in this series, vol. 8 certainly reads like one that’s getting everything set up for the big finale. It begins some time after the cataclysmic events of vol. 7 with Grant and his (ex)wife Sara having jumped to a dimension that has dedicated itself to looking after people like them. By […]