Manga and Comic Reviews
The last time I wrote about Nick Spencer’s “Amazing Spider-Man” run, I said that the writer had plowed it into territory that I didn’t find fun or entertaining to read about. Finding out the identity of Kindred, the demonic being who has been tormenting Spidey from the shadows of Spencer’s run, was the only reason […]
Vol. 1 had Doom framed for sabotaging a black hole experiment on the Moon, deposed from his country, being arrested and then escaping before he was able to regain his armor and go after those responsible for his situation. So if you’re thinking that vol. 2 sounds like this is where the series gets to […]
The main story of “ElfQuest” wrapped up in the final volume of “The Final Quest.” As you would expect from a storyline with that title. However, you can’t keep a good franchise down for long and so here we are with the first post-”Final Quest” storyline. Joking aside, “Stargazer’s Hunt” actually has a pretty good […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman & The Authority #1 (of 4) During their brief heyday at the turn of the millennium, “The Authority” were a team that made you question the relevance of Superman. After all, if this team was able to handle global, interdimensional, and intergalactic threats with a maximum of violence, the murdering of bad […]
How do you follow up a volume that ended with the protagonist’s mother trying to strangle him? If you’re mangaka Shuzo Oshimi, then you have things get a little worse before they get better. This involves Seiichi kicking a teacher’s desk during cleaning duty, getting reprimanded for it, and then moping on a bench after […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Mob Psycho 100 vol. 7 *lets out a long exhale* You can’t imagine my relief when I saw this volume in these solicitations. While vols. 5 & 6 were promptly re-scheduled after the pandemic interrupted Diamond’s schedule last year, and the “Reigen” volume arrived in November, there’s been no word on new volumes […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Chu #6 I heard this was supposed to be out sooner, but this is just one more thing you can chalk up to the pandemic. The good news is that it’s actually coming out and we can get a proper look at what the ongoing adventures of Saffron Chu will be like. They […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellions vol. 2 There’s another round of collections from the X-books in these solicitations. Much as I like what Jonathan Hickman and Gerry Duggan have been doing on “X-Men” and “Marauders,” I have to admit that Zeb Wells has been doing great, demented work on “Hellions.” Its first arc could have come across […]
Whenever this series makes the news over at “Anime News Network” it’s usually because it’s either going on hiatus or coming off of hiatus. Inio Asano has stopped and started his current series multiple times over the past few years and there’s never really been an explanation regarding why this is the case. I’ve got […]
The Dereleth was a state-of-the-art mapping/drilling ship that went down near the edge of the U.S./Russia aquatic border nearly 40 years ago. Everyone had assumed it was lost until a tsunami caused it to surface on an atoll and its emergency distress signal to reach the world at large. While the fact that the Dereleth […]