Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rumble #16 Wait, WHAT!? That’s right, #15 isn’t the last issue of this series. I keep expecting the hammer to come down with each arc, but I’m glad to be proven wrong here. There’s a catch with this latest issue, however. It’s the start of an anthology arc featuring short stories about the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man: Life Story When Spider-Man debuted in 1962, Peter Parker was 15 years old. 57 years later and he’s… what, twenty-something in his comics right now? Yes, aging does work kind of funny in superhero comics that have been published continuously for that long. But what if Spider-Man had aged in real time […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Blade of the Immortal Omnibus vol. 10 Am I playing it safe with this pick? Absolutely. Longtime readers/listeners will know that not only do I love this series, but that I thought it stuck the landing with its final volume. Given that this is the last omnibus edition of the series, this might […]
This is me clearing off a significant portion of the manga on my “to review” list before the next batch arrives later this week. Most, but not all, of the titles here were also read by me during my time at this year’s Fanime *sigh*. After the break, prepare yourself for my thoughts on the […]
The first volume of this series made a good case for following the ongoing adventures of Eddie Brock and his symbiote even though I’ve never really bothered with that before. This second volume furthers that case in a way that pushes the series into some dark and disturbing territory. It starts off with Eddie in […]
Despite what the title to this collection may imply, it wasn’t part of the Great Color Cull of “X-Men” titles from last year. “X-Men: Black” was the branding for a series of five one-shots which spotlighted various X-Men antagonists. Or villains, depending on your perspective. Whichever way you think of these individuals and their motivations, […]
Here’s another title that you can add to the ranks of volumes where I started reading them before I went to bed and wasn’t able to stop until I had reached the end. I had my doubts about the setup for this volume, coming so close on the heels of “Return of the Purple Man.” […]
A writer and artist will team up for each issue to take Jack Kirby’s “Last Boy on Earth” on an adventure that will end in a cliffhanger for the next creative team to solve. That’s “The Kamandi Challenge.” If that doesn’t sound like a recipe for a good story, then you’d be correct. Most of […]
It’s not usually an issue to determine what the flaws are in the comics that I read. Some suffer from characters who lack depth or act in dumb, logic-defying ways to serve the story. Others have stories whose twists weren’t clearly thought out beyond the idea of trying to surprise the reader. There are also […]
Hope may have died in the previous volume, but Luke, Leia, Han, R2, and Threepio are still alive and kicking. Unfortunately, even help from ace smuggler Sana Staros isn’t enough to get them through Imperial space undetected. Now they’re stuck on the isolationist moon of Hubin home to Clan Markona. They’re an easygoing bunch of […]