Manga and Comic Reviews
I was psyched for this miniseries when it was first announced. Simon Spurrier is one of my favorite writers and he did great work with Matias Bergara on the fantasy epic “Coda,” as well as issues of “Hellblazer” and “The Dreaming.” For the two of them to team up again on a new creator-owned work […]
Mjolnir went missing during the events of the previous volume. Thor was already in a bad mood then and it’s now even worse at the start of this volume as he realizes what he’s going to have to do in order to track it down. That’s right, he’s going to have to work with his […]
“Beyond” was a step in the right direction after Nick Spencer retconned “Amazing” into the ground. What Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. deliver here, however, is much more in line with what I expect to get from a Spider-Man comic. Some parts of it are familiar: Peter has once again nuked his life (including […]
Vol. 1 was delightful. Vol. 2 was as well, just less so than the first one. Vol. 3 is closer to vol. 1 mainly because there’s more of it to go around this time (for the same cover price). Things start off with curate-turned-priestess in the Church of Satan, Billie, and her priestess in the […]
Vol. 3 gave us the inkling of a solid direction for this series. The information the Four Little Shits acquired from the Lighthead Order pointed to a place called Zolar. Nobody knows where it is, but it’s said to be where the universe began. Zaha and company figure it’s as good a place as any […]
“War of the Bounty Hunters” was all about reintroducing Qi’ra, last seen in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” into the “Star Wars” universe post-”Empire Strikes Back.” She was now heading the criminal organization known as Crimson Dawn and was planning on selling Han Solo (still in carbonite) to the highest bidder to announce its return. […]
Val, Emory, and Bailey didn’t just make it out of the sanctuary alive and with some crucial information about how to bring the light back to the world at the end of the last volume. Additionally, they met up with some of Val’s friends from Outpost 41 and now they’ve got a proper convoy to […]
Jace Fox got his hands on a high-tech Batsuit at the end of the previous volume and we get to see him use it here to take out some bad actors who have infiltrated a demonstration against the police. It doesn’t go as well as he expects, but he escapes and gets to design his […]
The first round of testing for the First-Class Mage exam has begun. All that the teams involved have to do is capture a Stille and make sure all of their members are still alive by sunset the following day. This sounds simple, but the Stille is a bird that can fly at supersonic speed and […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dark Web #1 Yup, it’s another Marvel event. It’s not one of the big line-wide ones, however, just a smaller crossover between some characters who haven’t been interacting all that much in recent years. I’m talking about Spider-Man and the X-Men who are coming together to take on a threat that has bedeviled […]