Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme vol. 1 — Under the Knife When I heard that Mark Waid’s run on “Doctor Strange” was getting a relaunch, I was just glad to hear that he’d still be writing this series. Sure the “Surgeon Supreme” subtitle sounded a little goofy, but he was a surgeon at one […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Harrow County Omnibus vol. 1 I was always curious about this series as I saw new issues and volumes offered month after month in these solicitations. While Cullen Bunn is a decent writer and Tyler Crook is a great artist, the series never quite captured enough of my attention to pick it up. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Generation One (One-Shot) Guess what? The DCU is getting rebooted again. Well, maybe reboot is too strong a word. “Continued” may be a better one based on what I’ve heard is planned for it. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and a lot of other current heroes are either getting aged up, retired, or both […]
The three issues actually written by Waid in this volume are arguably the best he’s offered up on his run so far. “Strange, Visitor” has the Doctor barging into a home in Kansas to stop a demonic invasion while the parents inside try to keep up with him and his arrogance. It’s a fast-paced tale […]
What happens when the woman who can remember everything that’s happened in this world loses her memory? That’s the premise for this volume as the title character emerges out of the woods of Southern Japan in late ‘73 with no memory of who she is. Fortunately she meets up with Ryozo, a young researcher who […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written about the exploits of Hachiken and company. That hasn’t been because of any decline in the overall quality of this series, just that there have been other titles that have demanded my attention. Vol. 12 marks the start of the title’s march towards its end (vol. 15 will […]
It has an art style that owes a deep debt to Hayao Miyazaki’s work on “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind.” There’s also the fact that it makes a big deal out of making meals from fantasy creatures like “Delicious in Dungeon” does. Which means that “Drifting Dragons” is kind of a mash-up of two […]
Man, I’d forgotten that vol. 5 was published at the end of 2017. I thought it had only been a year since it came out and “Drifters” was actually managing something resembling an annual schedule. Silly me. Anyways, the latest battle in the war against the Black King is getting underway at the start of […]
“Critical Role” is a hugely popular web series where voice actors roleplay their Dungeons & Dragons characters over the course of an evolving storyline that has spawned its own fandom, a ton of merchandise, and the most-funded TV & Film Kickstarter in history. Because it’s always easier for me to find an entry point into […]
It only took them a little over 13 years, but DC finally has their “Marvel Zombies.” You know, the kind of story that shows what happens when their universe succumbs to a zombie outbreak. What happens isn’t quite as inventive or darkly amusing as that series was, but it still offers a propulsive superhero action/horror […]