Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the Board Recommendation: Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas Deciding which series gets this spot this month was a very difficult choice for me. My picks were both new series from established creators that both look and sound very promising. Ultimately, my decision to give this spot to “Friday” came down to the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: No One Left to Fight II #1 (of 5): Writer and co-creator Aubrey Sitterson started writing two new miniseries for Dark Horse, the latest issues of which are also in these solicitations. Artist and co-creator Fico Ossio started illustrating a “Mister Miracle” miniseries for DC. With its creators busy with other projects like […]
It occurs to me that I may have to rename this particular column “Penguin Picks” after this month… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immortal Hulk vol. 10: Of Hell And Of Death That’s certainly a cheery title for this series to wrap up its run with, isn’t it? Yes, that’s right, Al Ewing and Joe Bennett’s hugely popular […]
You know… When I started reading this series, I wasn’t expecting to read a storyline where Minare and a couple of co-workers head out to a rural village for research, fall into an aqueduct via trapdoor, and are recruited by a cult to spread their dogma. Dogma that happens to come with a side of […]
Usagi came back to his hometown for a short visit in his very first volume. Then he came back again in vol. 6 with the intention of staying, and we all know how that turned out. After that… huh. It really has been a while since Usagi has visited his hometown. So you really can’t […]
Would you care to take a guess which “Avengers” series isn’t present (save for one issue) on Marvel Unlimited? I blame Conan since the Cimmerian’s other Marvel-published comics aren’t on that app either. So that means I had to buy this volume to see what kind of threat would have him team up with Wolverine, […]
I’ve read a lot of Cullen Bunn’s comic book writing over the years. Some of it good, some of it bad, and some that I can just feel indifferent towards. Tyler Crook, on the other hand, is someone who has always delivered enjoyably creepy art and acquitted himself well when he took over from Guy […]
It was one thing for the opening pages of vol. 1 to imply that this was going to be a story about a girl and her relationship with a giant monster that was clearly Not Godzilla. It wasn’t until the very end of that volume where it became clear that’s exactly what this story was […]
The most surprising thing about “The Adventures Continue” is that it’s taken DC so long to do something like this. By “this” I mean, give us a continuation of “Batman: The Animated Series” in comics form. In the years since the series last episode, its reputation has only grown as one of the best takes […]
…at least, that’s what I thought until I read this. The idea that all conspiracies are true isn’t a new one, Grant Morrison built “The Invisibles” out of it after all. Neither is the fact that a shared collective belief can change the world, as we saw that in “The Sandman.” What writer James Tynion […]