Manga and Comic Reviews
The previousvolumes have been ping-ponging back and forth between Darryl and Io’s perspectives along with their respective factions. Mangaka Yasuo Ohtagaki has also made it clear that you’re supposed to be sympathizing with whoever’s in the protagonist role for those volumes, regardless if one of them is doing the work of a terrorist organization. The […]
The run of writer Peter Milligan and artist Michael Allred on “X-Force” and later “X-Statix” is something that shouldn’t have worked as well as it did. Taking a hard swerve from the paramilitary mutant action of the former title and turning it into a satire of early 00’s celebrity should’ve been a huge turn-off to […]
Sonny is a former insurance investigator who came across an assassination contract on the Dark Web for the murder of a young boy, Xavier, and his mother. Due to his intervention, only Xavier’s mom wound up dying and now he and the boy are living off the grid in a commune in rural British Columbia. […]
Where the volumes of “Star Wars” and “Darth Vader” that bore the “Crimson Reign” subtitle had only nominal ties to the organization and its ongoing storyline, “Doctor Aphra’s” are a bit more substantial. In part because this volume’s main storyline involves the Ascendant, the Force-worshipping cult who created the thought dowser seen in the previous […]
Tokiyuki Hojo’s main antagonist may be charismatic (and possibly demonically possessed) warrior Takauji Ashikaga, but he gets an acceptably devious stand-in with Sadamune Ogasawara. He’s the governor of Shugo Province and has a major beef with Tokiyuki’s benefactor Yorishige Suwa. So Sadamune decides to crash a dog-shooting competition (it’s not as bad as it sounds…) […]
Edward M. Pressler is the supervillain known as EMP. His claim to fame is that he blacked out Gotham City five years ago with an electromagnetic blast he generated from within his own body. EMP spent the next five years in a sensory deprivation tank at Arkham Asylum, until tonight when the order was given […]