Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Resident Alien vol. 8: The Book of Life After vol. 6 was meant to be an ending of sorts for the series, “Resident Alien” returned for another round of charmingly low-key, small-town, sci-fi stories in vol. 7. It also ended with the reveal of a major change to alien-in-hiding Harry Vanderspiegel’s status quo. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Get Fury It’s 1971. The Vietnam War is still in full swing. And Nick Fury has just been caught by the Viet Cong. To them, he’s just another American officer. To the C.I.A., he’s someone who knows where enough bodies are buried to tip the balance of world power. So a rescue operation […]
In order to know if this latest manga that Dark Horse has published from Kenji Tsuruta is for you, ask yourself three things: If you answered “Yes” to all three of these questions like I did, then you’re going to enjoy vol. 1 of “Captain Momo’s Secret Base.” While Dark Horse has been trying to […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Kneel Before Zod This gets the spot less because I’m expecting it to be good, but because I’m letting it serve as a referendum on the man who’s writing it. Joe Casey has delivered entertaining comics in the past like “Wildcats” because he didn’t let them be chained down by superhero convention. This […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Transformers vol. 2: Transport to Oblivion John and I talked about vol. 1 when it came out, and we were both pretty impressed by it. Even though it was essentially another retelling of the familiar Transformers origin, there were still enough fun and interesting details to the story that entertained the both of […]
Garth Ennis wrote a miniseries a few years back called “A Walk Through Hell.” It was meant to come off as a horror series about the problems society was (and still is) experiencing, but the only thing he managed to successfully convey through it was his utter despondence at the current state of humanity. Now […]
Phobos was saved in the previous volume. Freed of Labrys’ reprogramming by way of the Bydo virus, she’s herself again as well as Nene’s friend. Now that she’s back, the first thing on the agenda is getting Clarion back to her old self. Which is going to be hard because she’s whatever the AI equivalent […]
It’s a new day in Metropolis. Not only has Superman returned to protect the city full-time, but he’s brought his family along with him. In addition to Lois Lane and Jon Kent, Kara “Supergirl” Zor-El, Connor “Superboy” Kent, and Kong Kenan the Chinese Superman are on hand to fend off whatever new supervillain threatens the […]
This was the last thing Bendis did at DC before decamping to Dark Horse with his Jinxworld imprint. I still have to pick up the last volume of his “Justice League” run and the second volume of “Naomi” (both in softcover), but I’m having serious doubts about doing so after reading this story. If you […]
It’s good to be Billy Batson. The World’s Mightiest Mortal gets to spend his days using his superpowers for fun and saving people, with lots of approval from a grateful public. Sure he still has to attend school as Billy to keep himself humble and informed, but when the trade-off is that he can rescue […]