Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Minor Threats vol. 2: The Fastest Way Down “Minor Threats” has become something of a minor success for Dark Horse, having already spawned two spinoff miniseries and now this proper follow-up series. The hope is that “The Fastest Way Down” can keep the momentum going, and I think it has a decent chance […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate X-Men vol. 1: Fears & Hates Of all the titles in the current lineup of “Ultimate” comics, this is the one that appears to deviate the most from what you’d expect. Not just because of the softer, almost manga-esque look writer/artist Peach Momoko brings to it, but because she’s also bringing in […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Forged vol. 3: The Abaddon Strike There are collected editions of series where I’ve put their first issues in this spot when they were originally solicited. There’s also a new collected edition of a series whose first volume I did a podcast on with John. So why am I giving the Above-the-Board […]
I hope everyone enjoyed reading lots of words about a manga from Shin’ichi Sakamoto last week, because I’ve got more to say about another series of his that also launched last year. “#DRCL” is arguably the more successful, as it managed to snag an Eisner Award nomination for “Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material – […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Scalped Omnibus vol. 1 Dashiell “Dash” Bad Horse left his reservation years ago to escape the dead-end life he thought it represented. Now he’s back to show everyone there what he’s learned in the intervening years. There’s more to his story as he reconnects with old friends, enemies, exes and throws in with […]
From the far reaches of space, where they confronted some very angry sentient alien life, to the court of the Eternal Empress, the Forged team known as Scimitar-3 made quite the jump at the end of vol. 1. Fortunately their capricious Empress is happy to get the chance to see one of the combat units […]
Cleo, Katie, Lux, Wade, and Will are living in the aftermath of a horrifying incident that happened on their local beach a year ago. That was when some strange creatures emerged and abducted a lot of humans, including Cleo’s little brother Jakey. She has yet to get over this, and all of her friends are […]
Vol. 1 of this series definitely had the feel of “This Is The Story I Had To Tell You Before I Could Tell You This One,” with its closing moments implying that things were finally going to get started here. With regular human Lauren Thomas having entered into a Golden Contract to have her boundless […]
Vol. 1 showcased young executioner Charles-Henri Sanson learning how public executions are meant to be handled and slowly stepping into the role of Monsieur de Paris, the executioner to the royal family of France. Charles’ exploits then were a mixture of ripe melodrama that pitted his kind nature against his difficult upbringing, all rendered majestically […]
Vol. 2 of “Hellblazer With the Serial Numbers Filed Off” finds its protagonist Ellie “Bloody ‘El” Hawthorne still dealing with all of the demons gifted as coins to bastards around London by one Theo Bolger. He’s still trying to use these demons to remake the world, as he would like it to be, but his […]