Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Innocent Rouge Omnibus vol. 1 It was a little frustrating to get to the end of Dark Horse’s release of Shin’ichi Sakamoto’s “Innocent” manga and realize that it wasn’t an ending at all. That the story would continue in the follow-up manga “Innocent Rouge,” which hadn’t been confirmed for U.S. release at the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Godzilla vs. The Marvel Universe Now see, the miniseries being solicited now is “Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe.” It’s completely different from this collection of one-shots from several creators here. I’m actually not being sarcastic here because the one-shots collected here are a bunch of era-specific tales that have the Big G taking […]
[Just a FYI: No podcast this week for multiple reasons. Primarily the fact that I chose something rather lengthy to talk about and Fanime threw a wrench in our plans to record. Expect it next week. As for what it is… it’s something I should’ve done last year but didn’t and will likely fall under […]
It’s the most wonderful time of year again. With all of my work commitments sorted at the last minute, I was VERY ready to enjoy Fanime this year. Which I did on Thursday since I didn’t have spend most of the afternoon wandering around downtown looking for an ethernet cable. Instead I caught a screening […]
You’re Satoru Noda. You’ve just completed your magnum opus “Golden Kamuy” after 31 volumes. It’s been a bestseller, placed on multiple “best of” lists, and been adapted in an anime and live action as well. What do you do in order to follow up on that level of success? If you’re Satoru Noda then you’re […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Metamorpho: The Element Man Rex “Metamorpho” Mason has the ability to turn into any element he wants to, and he’s been the star of some of the kookiest stories of DC’s Silver Age, while remaining a cult favorite to this day. So cult that this is his first starring miniseries role in… I […]
I enjoyed writer Simon Spurrier’s run on “Hellblazer.” Up until its end. At which point the writer, and regular artist Aaron Campbell showed us just how dark a story involving John Constantine had to be to keep the reader from enjoying it. It’s worth noting that this wasn’t supposed to be the end as the […]
Five hundred years ago, Grendel Prime was given a mission to find a replacement Earth to re-establish the Grendel name. The short version is that he failed and has now returned to his homeworld, only to find it far more hostile to his kind. Anything relating to or bearing the mark of Grendel has been […]
We’re all familiar with Dracula, the vampire, but who was he before he became the bloodsucking Prince of the Night? Writer Matt Wagner and artist Kelly Jones take a page from the character’s alleged real-life inspiration and imagine him as a warlord from Wallacia in the 1400’s One best known for the brutal way he […]
I had a good feeling about where this series was going after it wound up on the planet where Hajime Damemaru had stashed his spaceship. While he continues to look for it in this volume, Zaha Sanko, Shimada Death, and Avakian engage in their own efforts to track the man and his ship down. Except […]