Manga and Comic Reviews
The previous volume ended with one of its characters taking a brick to the head during a parade. Fortunately for the character in question, Shirley is made of stronger stuff. Literally and figuratively. Yet she’s still uneasy about her friend Lori’s rise through the ranks at Everything and starting to display some doubts about store […]
They say the course of true love never runs smooth. Which is likely why the relationships showcased in this volume are certainly doomed, because they’re both going really well. Amateur BDSM enthusiasts Alan and Ally are having the time of their lives as they explore their respective fetishes in the most adorkable fashion. Even when […]
A funny thing happened after I got the five volumes I’m going to write about here. I got another shipment of manga from the Right Stuf. Which means that my backlog of manga to write about has only become that much larger. Rather than wait until one of these series has accumulated enough volumes to […]
Vol. 1 was pretty much everything that I’d hoped a Simon Spurrier-written version of “Hellblazer” would be. Macabre horror, stories with clever twists, and John Constantine being the one bastard who could always be counted on to come out on top. For better and for worse. I was excited to see what the writer had […]
Eddie Brock did the right thing at the end of the previous volume and told the Avengers about the impending threat of Knull. While they (specifically Iron Man) weren’t happy about it, Eddie’s actions gave them time to figure out a gameplan and for him to take Dylan to someone who can tell them what’s […]
There’s a moment early in this volume that serves as a litmus test as to whether this volume (and really, the series overall) is for you. Newly-promoted cabal head Sen. Connie Lipshitz is taking ideas from her fellow senators about initiatives to make life better for everyone in the U.S.A. One senator talks about a […]
Bendis’ first volume of this series was impressive in that it was kind of a mess that still managed to hold itself together and deliver a satisfying climax at its end. Vol. 2 is more of the same as the Legion faces the fallout from the events of vol. 1 as the team makes not […]
…and that’s a wrap. At least, it is until the next time I go eight months without reviewing a volume of this series. Vol. 19 may have been this title’s most recent high point, but it didn’t quite herald the next stage of its story the way this volume does. That’s at the end of […]
After all the excitement of the previous volume, you’d think that it’d be time for the story to take a break and let the cast catch their breaths. This lasts for about two chapters as the main cast does just that and the focus of the story shifts back to some of the 7th Division […]
If you’ll recall, I put “Golden Kamuy” on my “Best of 2020” list. I generally try to avoid putting ongoing series on there, or else each year would be dominated by continuing series like “Blade of the Immortal,” “The Walking Dead,” or “Delicious in Dungeon” until they ended… if they ended well. In the case […]