Manga and Comic Reviews
Paprika used to be just an editor at Infernum Press, until her insight led to one of their releases, “Spice it Up,” becoming a monstrous success. Now she’s a driven Chief Creative Officer overseeing the book’s adaptation into other media, and showing everyone else in her office that she deserves the success she’s enjoying. The […]
Vol. 2 threw a surprising curveball into the series’ pleasant narrative with the demonizing of actual demons. The creativity displayed by writer Kanehito Yamad and artist Tsukasa Abe continues through the remainder of the arc as Frieren goes to confront the demons’ leader Aura and her magical Scales of Obedience while Fern and Stark take […]
Adam Strange is a man of two worlds: Earth and Rann, and he’s just saved the latter from an invasion by the Pykkt. He’s also just written a book about it and is going on a book tour with his wife, Alanna, to talk about the experience. Everything’s going well until he’s accosted at one […]
Bobby and Andi Randolph were flying out to their wealthy dad’s research platform in the South Atlantic, when a mysterious storm causes their plane to crash. When Bobby wakes up he’s on an island and in the process of being rescued by a take-charge girl by the name of Bermuda before the magic-wielding sea creatures […]
Rowena “Ro” Meadows is an artist who’s in a slump right now. Where creating imaginative paintings used to come natural to her, she now struggles to put paint to canvas. Which is why she’s decided it’s time for a change of scenery and has decided to take up residence in a supposedly haunted house. Unfortunately […]
I didn’t start reading this volume from the beginning when I got it. Instead, I flipped back to the “Notes on vol. 3” section for one specific reason: To find out if “Eizouken” will continue to be published in English beyond this volume. What I read told me that YES IT WILL! Editor Carl Horn […]
Cons are back! After they shut down in the wake of COVID becoming a full-blown epidemic in March 2020 they’ve slowly been coming back across the country. While I don’t go to a whole lot of them, WonderCon has traditionally been one that I’ve checked out regularly each year mainly due to its “Comic-Con Without […]
For all of the massive success he’s enjoyed over the years, I’ve never been able to fully get on the James Tynion IV bandwagon. That’s mainly because the DC superhero work I’ve read from him, his “Detective Comics” run specifically, has been too straightforward to be enjoyable. Then there’s his breakout creator-owned work “Something is […]
Everything wrapped up nicely last time and Owen Johnson headed home with his family after settling things between the Temple of the Flaming Fist and the Scorched Earth Clan. Except for the fact that it turns out that Owen’s old girlfriend Ling Zang is still alive, and also a little disappointed that her former flame […]
The last time we had a “Groo” crossover – which was also his first crossover ever – it didn’t go so well. “Groo vs. Conan” was a deeply mixed bag that featured good art from Sergio Aragones and Thomas Yeates, and also a choppy, confused story from Mark Evanier that didn’t deliver on the comic […]