Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Heavy Liquid There are a few reasons I’m completely in the tank for any major project from Paul Pope. This is one of them. “Heavy Liquid” was originally a five-issue prestige format miniseries from DC/Vertigo in the late 90’s. It’s about a man known only as S who is hooked on the title […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Miles Morales: Spider-Man vol. 1 — Straight Out of Brooklyn While Miles Morales has been written by other people in the past, his solo adventures were exclusively handled by co-creator Brian Michael Bendis prior to his departure from Marvel to DC. This volume represents the first time another creator will be writing Miles’ […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Snow, Glass, Apples HC This is the latest entry in “The Neil Gaiman Library” from the company. Coming back for her second tour of duty on this kind of project is Colleen Doran, best known for her epic creator-owned series “A Distant Star.” She’s also worked with Gaiman directly on a couple of […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Green Lantern vol. 1: Intergalactic Lawman I never planned to keep reading “Green Lantern” after Geoff Johns left. He redefined and expanded the character’s mythos in a way that’s rarely seen in superhero comics. It was the kind of high water mark that left you feeling sorry for the writer who was […]
After “The Flowers of Evil” and “Happiness” this is Shuzo Oshimi’s third series about a girl who takes a boy down a path in life that he couldn’t have imagined. Like the latter series, there’s a supernatural aspect to this story about college dropout and social recluse Isao. He spends his days jerking off and […]
I was honestly surprised with how much I liked this story by the time it was over. This is in spite of the fact that Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ take on the New God who is also the universe’s foremost escape artist starts off in a very depressing place: A depiction of self-harm that […]
This miniseries effectively represents the end of Marvel’s big “Inhumans” push of the last few years. The reason for such a thing was rumored to be down to how Marvel owned the film and TV rights to these characters, but didn’t have them for the X-Men, and was looking to push the Inhumans as a […]
How successful was Donny Cates’ run on “Thanos?” So successful that Marvel looked to find some way, ANY way to capitalize on it. This is in spite of the fact that the nature of the story, about Thanos teaming up with his older self to murder the last things in the galaxy, made that a […]
When I originally wrote that this series would appeal to people who like weird and interesting manga, provided they had the patience for it, I didn’t think that patience would also have to extend to the wait between volumes. The first omnibus volume of “Die Wergelder” arrived on our shores back in December of 2015 […]
My traditional experience with the works of Matt Kindt is that the first volume of his creator-owned series disappoints, only for subsequent volumes to improve. Vol. 2 of “Ether” sets up a dispiriting exception to that rule as the first volume was fantastic, with this new one being a letdown. It starts off with a […]