Manga and Comic Reviews
It came down to the wire, but Gyoro Zeppelli pulled off a win for the first stage of the Steel Ball Run race. Or did he?! The race’s organizers are stumped by this man’s mysterious past and unpleasantly surprised by how his entry has upset the expectations for the event. Even if they’re going to […]
Vol. 2 ended with the main cast trapped in a car that had just crashed with its driver nothing more than a smear on the pavement. What’s more is that Patch, still infected after the events of vol. 1, had just found them again. Things seemed bad back then, but Elsie, Gigi, Lord, and the […]
Napoleon Archimedes has it all. He’s the arch-nemesis of the world’s greatest superhero and has confounded her and her comrades time and time again. As industrialist Stanley Tyler, he makes a fortune providing the tech the world runs on. In addition to being married to the greatest assassin in the world, he also has three […]
Namor is in prison, but he’s fine with that. With Atlantis in ruins and its people in diaspora – largely through his own fault – its former king is willing to resign himself to an above-ground prison with no intent to return to the sea ever again. Until he learns of the war that has […]
Princess Ignelia has been kidnapped by the evil necromancer who slew her father! He has taken her to the top of the floating tower and a call has gone out to everyone in the kingdom for warriors valiant enough to help get her back. Answering the call is Yuva, a farmboy who is incredibly strong, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Uri Tupka and the Gods: Another Tale From Lands Unknown It turns out we didn’t have to wait that long for creator Mike Mignola to return to his newest fictional universe. This second installment of “From Lands Unknown” is set to arrive a little over a year after the first and may be […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Lazarus vol. 8 Whenever a series goes on hiatus, it’s usually done with the expectation that it’ll return. Of course, saying something is on “hiatus” is also sometimes the polite way of saying that it’s never coming back and you shouldn’t get your hopes up. The longer something remains on hiatus, the chances […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman Unlimited vol. 1 Dan Slott may have broken into mainstream comics with “Arkham Asylum: Living Hell,” but he made his name at Marvel with his legendary run on “Amazing Spider-Man.” Now that things have cooled off for him at the House of Ideas, he’s found his way over to DC who has […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Imperial Jonathan Hickman is doing another reinvention of a specific part of the Marvel Universe? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!! No, seriously. The man has crafted lots of classic stories through his work on “Fantastic Four,” “The Avengers/New Avengers,” and “X-Men.” Even when he doesn’t hit it out of the park (looking […]
The last time I checked in on this series it had just finished up its second arc where Chise and Elias started attending a college for magic users and wound up stopping a power-mad sorceress from using the power of a dead god to resurrect her son. Vol. 20 features a little bit of follow-on […]