Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellions vol. 2 There’s another round of collections from the X-books in these solicitations. Much as I like what Jonathan Hickman and Gerry Duggan have been doing on “X-Men” and “Marauders,” I have to admit that Zeb Wells has been doing great, demented work on “Hellions.” Its first arc could have come across […]
Whenever this series makes the news over at “Anime News Network” it’s usually because it’s either going on hiatus or coming off of hiatus. Inio Asano has stopped and started his current series multiple times over the past few years and there’s never really been an explanation regarding why this is the case. I’ve got […]
The Dereleth was a state-of-the-art mapping/drilling ship that went down near the edge of the U.S./Russia aquatic border nearly 40 years ago. Everyone had assumed it was lost until a tsunami caused it to surface on an atoll and its emergency distress signal to reach the world at large. While the fact that the Dereleth […]
Cosmo and Arthur Pryce are brothers. They’re also soon-to-be former hitmen for the local mob boss known as the Baron. They’ve just taken out the men guarding Little Harkness, a key figure in a rival gang, and are about to bring him back to their boss, The Baron. Cosmo is the kind of optimist who […]
“The Boys” has become a big hit for Amazon’s Prime streaming service. Longtime readers will recall that I was generally a fan of Garth Ennis’ effort to take his hatred of superheroes to the next level with Darick Robertson, Russ Braun, John McCrea, and friends along for the ride. So when it was announced that […]
Faith left her old struggling artist life behind at the end of the first volume. While the implication was that she may have lost her soul (figuratively and literally) in the process, vol. 2 doesn’t dwell on that a whole lot. Now that Faith has thrown in her lot with Poppy, her uncle Louis, and […]
You know how I said in my review of the first volume that Godai wasn’t going to stay a schmuck forever? Well, that part is absolutely true. It’s just that after reading these two volumes it feels like I’ve underestimated the length of time that it’s going to take for him to grow out of […]
Here we have a story about a man who got out of Texas when he was young, escaped the cycle of violence and drugs that he and his brother were trapped in and made his way out to California. This man is Randy Terrill and wouldn’t you know it, he just got word that his […]
The party has split as a result of Ash’s manipulations and she now finds herself as the Queen of Angria, with Isabelle as a mostly-willing partner in this and Sol still rotting as a Fallen in the dungeon. They want to leave the world of Die, but they also want to do so in a […]
A literal first issue as a complete volume, “Fire Power” vol. 1introduced us to Owen Johnson and his quest to improve his martial arts skills and learn about his parents with the inhabitants of the Temple of the Flaming Fist. After a full volume of training, fighting, and fireballs, we got a look at where […]