Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House Does it say something that the best Mignolaverse collection I’ve read in a while is the one that wasn’t released in hardcover? That’d be “Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb” which, coincidentally, was also the first one in some time written […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DCeased: War of the Undead Gods HC This was an easy choice to make. “War of the Undead Gods” is the concluding chapter to writer Tom Taylor and artist Trevor Hairsine’s epic alternate-universe superpowered zombie saga and the stakes are now cosmic. While things ended on a positive note as Earth was cleansed […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men: Before the Fall – Sinister Four #1 I honestly can’t say that I’m crazy about the idea of an “X-Men” event called “Fall of X.” Just from the name alone. Mutants have spent so much time getting the short end of the stick that it was both a revelation and a relief […]
Vol. 5 set up a hell of a situation for Narancia to overcome. With his mouth possessed by a Stand that caused him to say the opposite of whatever he means, he had to convince his friends that they were all under attack. I don’t need to tell you that he eventually finds a way […]
Everyone knows how the Suicide Squad works. You’ve got your supervillains and/or antiheroes doing high-risk jobs for the government for a chance at reducing their sentences. Assuming they survive, of course. The appeal lies in seeing what these (generally) bad people will do to make it out alive and there have been plenty of good […]
Batman is dead. So is the Joker. They both died on Fool’s Night ten years ago and Selina Kyle wound up in prison. Now she’s finally out and has returned to a Gotham she barely recognizes. Costumed vigilantes have been outlawed. Bat-themed police patrol the streets. Cameras and security systems scrutinize every citizen’s actions. All […]
Vol. 1 left off with Jenny agreeing to go into the Action Science Police’s custody after she got her hands on her father’s journal. That was all for the greater good in the fight against kaiju. At least, that’s what the ASP’s Director Santo tells her after she’s had a chance to work out some […]
Nearly three years passed between the release of volumes two and three of this series, and I can still remember sections of vol. 2 like I had just read them. Particularly the opening fight between Shinobu and her friends, and the villains who moved into her house on Ishikunagijima island. It wasn’t just proof that […]
Vol. 4 ended with Sabe acknowledging a piece of information that should’ve signed her death warrant: She knows that Darth Vader was once Anakin Skywalker. That the Dark Lord doesn’t kill her outright is likely down to the fact that she’s got Padme’s face, and is offering him a chance to prove that her queen […]
Things were bad when we last saw the good Doctor, even by her usual standards. She and Sana had finally caught up with Kho Fon Farrus and their pursuit of the Spark Eternal, only for the legendary artifact to possess Aphra instead. Now the Doctor is a prisoner in her own mind as an intelligence […]