Manga and Comic Reviews
DSTLRY is a new digital-first publishing operation from one of the co-founders of ComiXology. So it’s natural that the first thing I’m reading from them is the print edition collection of this three-part miniseries from writer/artist Jock. It takes place in the future in a run-down settlement next to a bustling spaceport where the inhabitants […]
Writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner, with Tone Rodriguez on layouts, scored a major hit with “Stray Dogs” a couple years back and now they’re back with a cat-focused follow-up. It’s about one family’s three cats – Elsie, Patch, and Lord Fluffy Britches – as they find themselves in the middle of a highly […]
Francis Thurston’s uncle, an archaeologist by the name of George Angell, has recently passed away at the age of 92. He lived a full life, although the last few months of it were consumed by an investigation into something known as the Cthulhu Cult. The worshiping of a strange tentacle-headed idol, the chanting of “Ph’nglui […]
It’s just another evening for Lois and Clark when the latter’s beeper goes off and he goes to help out the Justice League deal with an interstellar object that has crashed in the ocean off of Luzon Island. So far, so standard. Except that when Lois wakes up that night upon her husband’s return, he’s… […]
Blockbuster is dead, and with him organized crime in Bludhaven has lost its head. Which means that there’s going to be a lot of crooks making their plays to either take his place or take advantage of the chaos. Fortunately Nightwing is not only up to the task of tackling this chaos, but he’s got […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus vol. 6 “Wait a second,” I hear you say, “Didn’t he already put this omnibus in this spot back in the May 2024 round of solicitations?” Yes. Yes I did. I also wrote there that my biggest concern was whether or not that omnibus vol. 6 […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Strikeforce: Morituri Omnibus HC The Earth is under attack from a race of brutal aliens called the Horde, and humanity is losing. Fortunately our scientists have come up with the Morituri Process which confers superpowers on individuals who are compatible with it. The catch? If it works, not only do people get superpowers, […]
When we left Oczy at the end of the previous omnibus, he was resigned to his fate in trying to buy time for Badeni to escape with his knowledge. This involves fighting Nowak and his comrades as they try to apprehend him in the name of the Church. What follows is likely going to make […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Penguin vol. 2: All Bad Things Oswald Cobblepot was ready to enjoy life as a normal guy away from all of the chaos in Gotham. Then he was press-ganged by a zealous federal agent into taking back his criminal empire from his kids. Now, with the assistance of the crew he put […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Power Fantasy vol. 1 I know I’ve given enough of these spots to comics written by Kieron Gillen, so what’s one more! This is a comic about superpowered individuals, though the definition of that isn’t probably what you’d expect. “Superpowered” in this series means that an individual has the destructive capability of […]