Manga and Comic Reviews
Mika and Cujo’s face-off against Sahaquiel makes for an invigorating start to vol. 6. The former even manages to inspire fear in the latter with his reckless dragon-slaying technique. Unfortunately, things fall into an all-too-familiar groove for the rest of the volume as Cujo convinces Mika to help him take out the dragon that took […]
This isn’t quite the end of Tom King’s “Batman” run. It is for his tenure on the ongoing monthly “Batman” title, with James Tynion IV having succeeded him and restored the title to its former sales glory, but the writer still has something to say about the character. He’ll just be doing it in the […]
The smart thing to do after reading the first “Snowpiercer” prequel volume would’ve been to cut my losses. I didn’t think Jean-Marc Rochette and Matz’s additions to the series added a whole lot, which left the story feeling like an unnecessary addition to the original trilogy. Yet because I didn’t hate the first volume, and […]
Call it “Wonder Woman Beyond Thunderdome.” Call it “Last Amazon on Earth.” However you want to look at it, the idea of Wonder Woman waking up into a post-apocalyptic world filled with monstrous creatures and fighting for the sake of the surviving humans is a powerful one. Put into the hands of creator Daniel Warren […]
Fans of this series can take heart that we’re getting this third volume much quicker than we got the second volume of writer Greg Rucka’s other ongoing creator-owned series, “The Old Guard.” By that I mean we only had to wait a little more than two years for this volume as opposed to three for […]
This series received a very well-liked anime adaptation last year. I haven’t got around to watching it yet because reading comics and playing videogames still monopolize the majority of my time. (Though anyone who has a Netflix subscription should check out “Dorohedoro” if they haven’t already.) If you’re familiar with how I operate, then it […]
It’s now March and do you know what I realized? I’m STILL reviewing comics that came out last year. That’s still going to be true for a while yet because my “To Read” and “To Review” piles are both quite large at this point. (Neither will be getting smaller or larger this week because I’m […]
If nothing else, having my expectations adjusted after reading the first volume of this smash-hit series helped me enjoy this one a little more. Now that I know that there’s no special hook for this series, I can try to enjoy it on its own terms with my lowered expectations. With that in mind, I […]
If I’m being completely honest, when I selected “Once & Future” as one of the best titles of 2020, it was more for its first volume than its second. Both are funny, inspiringly violent stories enlivened by Kieron Gillen’s wit and Dan Mora’s attention to detail. However, only vol. 1 has a twist which turned […]
If vol. 14 was the end of “Act II” of this series, then this is the intermission between acts. Thanks to Darryl Lorenz and the Psycho Zaku, the Nanyang Alliance was not only able to escape the Taal Volcano base, but hand the Federation forces a crushing defeat as well. The first half of this […]