Manga and Comic Reviews
That subtitle makes this miniseries sound more intimidating than it actually is. “A Tale of the Shrouded College” gives you the impression that you’re buying into a story that’s larger than the one being told here. I can tell you that’s not the case as its creator, writer Charles Soule, states at the end of […]
After finally putting Abigail Brand and Orbis Stellaris’ plans for Arakko to rest in the previous volume, you’d think that the cast of this series would be entitled to a little downtime. “A little” is exactly what they get as Storm is summoned away from a date to discuss Magneto’s last moments with Professor X […]
The manga was better. It’s a common refrain that’s usually used to talk about any adaptation of such into other media. Usually used when talking about the anime version of a popular series in my case. That’s not always the case as there are times when the passion of the people adapting the material shines […]
Simon Bruttenholm and Honora Grant may have survived working with Sir Edward Grey in “Witchfinder vol. 5: The Gates of Heaven,” but now they’re going to have to rely only on each other in this tale. After one of Simon’s research partners goes missing, the two head to the village of Noxton to investigate as […]
The last time we got an anthology of stories featuring the Big Red Guy, it was the excellent “The Return of Effie Kolb.” That collection showed that creator Mike Mignola is still the best there is at telling stories within his own fictional universe with the worst of the stories there better described as just […]
It is the Eleventh Millenium of the Rule of the Eternal Empress and a team of her elite commandos, the Forged, find themselves tasked with a relatively straightforward mission. Go down to the planet Gehenna, and retrieve the black box of a ship that crashed there. The team is a little unimpressed with this mission […]
Kyle Starks finally gets a series to last more than one volume only for it to end with its second. While that may seem like bad news, everything about vol. 2 of “I Hate This Place” indicates that it was intended to tell a ten-issue story. That may not seem like the case at first, […]
When Russia is breathing down your neck, what’s the best way to shore up ties between disparate peoples? In the case of this series its forging bonds between the people of the towns and the people of the steppes, except that the latter clans need to get their own affairs in order first. How are […]
Writer Kelly Thompson and artist Meredith McClaren’s “Heart in a Box” was one of my favorite titles last year. Re-issued in a new edition from Dark Horse, it took what sounded like a predictable setup – girl gives away her heart for peace of mind, comes to regret it, embarks on quest to get heart […]
Jack Lynch wasn’t the best agent the C.I.A. had, but he was on track to have a productive career. Then he wound up in a Russian prison after one mission went bad and then spent the next couple of decades either behind a desk or doing the kind of boring jobs that they give to […]