Manga and Comic Reviews
Nora Freud is a spy. She’s currently enduring the most boring station of her career on Bermuda as she deals with gathering information at endless fundraisers between bouts of weirdness like alien time bandits and ghost Nazi U-boat captains. Then one day her sister, Connie, a marine cryptozoologist arrives by boat on the island. Connie […]
Vol. 4 of “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” was meant to be Alan Moore’s big farewell to the comics industry. He and artist Kevin O’Neill even featured prominently in the epilogue to talk about it. Which makes “Cinema Purgatorio” the writer’s coda to his work in the medium. It’s an eighteen-part anthology of stories with […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman vs. Lobo #1 (of 3) They’re the last sons of their respective worlds and… that’s about all they have in common. So what possible reason could the Man of Steel and the Main Man have for teaming up? Well, it turns out that there’s this god called Numen who’s currently the most […]
While we’re finally getting COVID-19 under control, its ongoing presence is still preventing a return to normal for a lot of conventions. This includes my enduring favorite, Fanime in the San Jose area. The pandemic has now prevented the convention from being held in-person twice. Fortunately, people want to attend Fanime and it’s how we […]
Vol. 3 kicks off with the arrival of Yuri Briar to the Forger family household for dinner. Not only is he Yor’s brother, but he’s also a member of Ostania’s secret police, and he loves his sister dearly. To the point of comedic awkwardness as he’s roughly as many social graces as his sister. This […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Radiant Black vol. 1 Nathan Burnett’s life sucks right now. How badly does it suck? So much so that he’s celebrating his 30th birthday by moving back in with his parents. The good news is that he’s about to find the power of the Radiant which will change his life forever… Assuming that […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: She Could Fly vol. 3 Vol. 1 boasted a compelling illustration of mental illness, along with a lot of quirk to go along with it. Vol. 2 had me getting better acclimated to this title’s quirkiness while also giving us a quasi-ending that wrapped up the story as best it could. It also […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men: Hellfire Gala — The Red Carpet Edition HC I am nothing if not consistent when it comes to putting big “X-Men” events here. That said, the “Hellfire Gala” is a bit different from the likes of “X of Swords.” Where that storyline sprawled through multiple titles and one-shots, the spine of this […]
As far as cliffhangers go, the one for vol. 9 of this series was top-notch. It implied something awful and I was bracing for the worst when I opened up vol. 10. What I got… was a big ol’ flashback to when Teacher was still human. While his days as a human had long been […]
Tom Taylor has written several comics I’ve really liked, with his run on “All-New Wolverine” and “DCeased: Unkillables” chief among them. So when I heard that he was going the creator-owned route with artist Daniele Di Nicuolo for “Seven Secrets” at BOOM! I knew that I had to check it out. Never mind the fact […]