Manga and Comic Reviews
Joy Corrigan is an EN.VOI. That means she’s the top enforcer to the leader of a Trust, the giant city-states that make up the world of the future. Kathryn Menteuse leads the Jonado Trust and the bond between her and her EN.VOI is strong. Until one day when Joy becomes compromised. Now everyone she thought […]
In the first volume (which I could have sworn that I reviewed a while back), writer Henry Henry stole a manuscript from his mentor, polished it up, and had it published as the novel “Terror Forming.” It wound up making him the chosen storyteller in the eyes of those who inhabit the Fearscape, where human […]
When women get old in this particular world, they don’t get to be taken care of by their families or sent to retirement homes. No, they get sent to The Island where they have to fight all of the other old ladies just to survive the next day. That’s what has happened to Jay, though […]
Vol. 1 promised us lots of sexy fun, but was bogged down by a conventional, almost moralistic narrative. Vol. 2 managed to get away from that by suggesting that there are perks and good times to be had by selling your soul to the devil for what you want. Vol. 3, however, is closer to […]
Well, this is embarrassing. In the almost fifteen years that I’ve been podcasting and writing about comics, I’ve never had a problem with that most basic of rules when it comes to following a series. You know, the one about reading every volume in order and not skipping over any of them. It’s a pretty […]
“Way of X” had Nightcrawler picking apart the underpinnings of Krakoa as a means of addressing the spiritual malaise that had set in around this utopia. What he, and Legion, came up with was the Spark. A literal representation of creative energy housed in Legion’s mindspace, the Altar, where mutants are free to try new […]
Pearl Tanaka is the Ghost Dragon of San Francisco. That’s what people are calling the woman who is the head of the Yakuza there and business is going good for her. Sure, she just had the Endo Twins burn down their sex shoppe strip mall the Sugar Shack, but that was more of a mercy […]
Joan Peterson has a problem with love. Falling into it isn’t it, however. She has no problem seeing the appeal of spending the rest of her life with a rich man’s son, a singer in a local rock band, her best friend’s fiancee, a soldier during wartime… the list goes on. It isn’t until they […]
Based on the way vol. 9 ended, it looked like Mob’s biggest challenge for this volume was going to be placing in the top ten of his school’s 5K run. All so that he could get enough confidence to confess to the girl he likes. That’s… not the case here as this is the volume […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Scotch McTiernan vs. The Forces of Evil The team who brought you the flashback issues of “Deadpool” that everyone loved, co-writers Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, and artist Scott Koblish, team up for three adventures that pit the titular stoner soldier against the evils plaguing modern society. Said evils being America’s war on […]