Manga and Comic Reviews
Hmmmm… In light of recent events, I think I’m going to have to re-title the next edition of this. Above-the-Board Recommendation: Delver vol. 2 I thought that the first volume of this series offered an interesting perspective on the fantasy trope of a dungeon crawl, with some surprisingly intense action to go along with it. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Tales From Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee I’m putting this here for the sheer nerve it represents. Next year would have been Stan Lee’s 100th birthday and DC is getting the jump on Marvel in celebrating it. How? The only way they can: Revisiting the “Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC […]
There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the first four chapters of this volume. Oran and Oba have what appears to be a final encounter. Miura goes on TV to let everyone know that the alien mothership is going to explode in a few hours. Hiroshi tries to get out of the city while […]
You’d think it’d be enough trying to follow up one era-defining Marvel run, while also managing multiple creator-owned titles, for Donny Cates. As you can see here, it’s not. After following up Jason Aaron’s legendary run on “Thor,” he’s now taking up the reins on “Hulk” from Al Ewing. (Who, coincidentally along with Ram V, […]
There is rot in the valley. First it came from the Bandit King, whose reign of terror cowed the hearts of many, save five who sought the power to defeat him. Power that came from the martial arts teachings of a lone master who taught them aspects of his art under the condition that they […]
The Ohm Corporation controls all the power in the future and they’ve just come under attack. It’s holo-A.I. CEO Mr. Karloff has unleashed Sam, a superpowered combat robot, into Ohm Tower to fight his way through the possessed threats representing various forms of energy at each level. He won’t be doing this alone, however, as […]
It’s. Finally. Here. “Kurosagi’s” return was originally announced back at Anime Expo in July 2019 with this fifth omnibus including the never-before-published vol. 15 set for March 2020, and a sixth omnibus of three new volumes to arrive later that year. I don’t think I need to tell you how those plans were interrupted. Given […]
Boris Johnson may have screwed over a lot of Britons during his time as prime minister in real life, but he’s got nothing on his fictional counterpart in this series. That’s because the version of him in “Once & Future” managed to send everyone in his country to the fantasy realm of Otherworld where all […]
Under what conditions could the Eternals be made to utter the dread words of this volume’s subtitle? Perhaps if the Mad Titan became the new Prime Eternal in order to repair his body and destroy the Earth. That’s a bad idea even by Druig’s standards, regardless if he thinks he has the means to control […]
It is the future and there are robots! Also: Cyborgs, aliens, a maggot-person, and a whole lot of regular dumb-ass humans all caught up in a ridiculous nightmare of way-past-late-stage capitalism. This is seen through the constant conflicts between dueling cosmic megacorporations P.U.K. and X.I.T. to reach maximum profitability while not missing a chance to […]