Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 For a while it looked like the “Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.” series was going to be left unresolved. This series of “early years” adventures with everyone’s favorite big, red, stone-handed son of the Devil Himself was initially rolling along with a series-of-miniseries set in the 50’s and slowly […]
Longtime readers will know that I was a fan of “Assassination Classroom” by Yusei Matsui. It re-imagined the “Inspirational Teacher” story as a wacky Silver Age “Superman” tale after a round, yellow, tentacled alien took over teaching the worst class at an elite school. All so that they could kill him before the year was […]
Writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Tyler Boss broke into the comics industry several years ago with their creator-owned title “4 Kids Walk Into a Bank.” It was a confident, funny, and stylish miniseries about a group of kids who plan a bank robbery, natch. I really liked it, even if the ending did go a […]
Vol. 2 ended with Ichikawa and Iharu at the mercy of the (named in this volume) Kaiju No. 9. Fortunately, Kafka showed up in time to take on this new threat and things go shockingly well for him. So well that you wonder what the catch is going to be in this situation. That turns […]
This series has one thing in common with “The Last Ronin:” Both series had some major delays between issues. The difference between the two is that while “Ronin’s” delays only served to stoke the hype for that miniseries “Get Joker’s!” seemed to fizzle out after its first issue. That’s likely because its first issue is […]
You know, it’s been some time since we’ve checked in on Kenji and Shiro. Vol. 18 finds the former at something of a crossroads as the manager of his salon has finally returned from Vietnam. This leads everyone to assume that Kenji’s status as the de facto manager is over and now the stylist is […]
The story here picks up a couple of decades after the events of vol. 1. In that time, Two Moons has embraced his Pawnee heritage and lived as (what white folks call) a medicine man among his people. Fate is a strange thing, however, and it’s on one snowy night that he and two of […]
With “Beyond” as a subtitle to this volume, some of you may be wondering if this has anything to do with the storyline in the same name that was running over in “Amazing Spider-Man.” The answer to that is “yes” as this picks up in the wake of Miles’ team-up with Ben Reilly against the […]
Vol. 1 left off with Stargazer having departed the World of Two Moons on a quest to find what was missing in his life. What he didn’t realize was that this was due to his daughter Jink taking his memories of Cutter away in order to ease his anguish. This has led the white-haired Wolfrider […]
I was expecting a lot from “Event Leviathan,” coming as it was from the creative team of Bendis and Alex Maleev, especially after the solid build-up the writer gave it in “Action Comics.” The end result of that story was a lot of smoke with no real fire to speak of. A story that took […]