Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s the one title on my “Best of 2020” list that I haven’t written or talked about yet, so it’s time to give it its due. Honestly, letting “Superman’s Pal: Jimmy Olsen” sit on my review pile for so long was downright disrespectful on my part. It isn’t just that the adventurous photographer for the […]
True Story: When I was looking over what I’d written and recorded for 2020, I noticed that I’d posted my review of “Gigant” twice in April. That was embarrassing enough, but I couldn’t figure out what I had passed over in order for that to have happened. Well, I finally solved that mystery. Expect reviews […]
Not only does this graphic novella have an attention-getting title, but said title is also very appropriate for the tone and style writer Alex De Campi and artist Erica Henderson are trying to evoke. After a very brief prologue in Vienna, 1889, the story jumps to Los Angeles, 1974, where Quincy Harker is making a […]
The superhero known as Stealth has protected the mean streets of Detroit for decades. Nobody knew who he was, until he came crashing home late one night and journalist Tony Barber found out that it was his retired firefighter father Daniel. Tony’s reaction to this reveal was a kind of “surprised” that was more frightened […]
Syd Holmes used to be a homicide detective. Now he’s hustling for laughs at some of the seediest comedy clubs in New York City. If that didn’t sound bad enough, another stand-up comic by the name of Carl Dixon is about to get his big shot on Leno, and he’s managed to do it by […]
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. There really hasn’t been a need for one, what with my “To Review” pile coming very close to being exhausted at a few points in the last year. However, as the postal network sorts itself out post-pandemic, I cash in a gift certificate, and make […]
Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve talked about Meguru’s (and Maki’s) efforts to work his way to the top spot in the Nationals. You can chalk that up to a mix of digital titles being somewhat “out of sight, out of mind” when it comes to reviewing them, as well as the inherent predictability […]
…With the wrap-up coming here as the Sin-Eater takes the fight to the current administrator of the Ravencroft Institute, Norman Osborn. The thing is that based on what the vigilante has been doing to all of the other supervillains, why shouldn’t he be allowed to do that to Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis? As Peter points out, they […]
…Well, it turns out they’re leading to the kind of grim, dark storyline that’s the antithesis of what we got in the previous volume. It all starts with a special issue devoted to refreshing and modernizing one of Spidey’s foes who has managed to stay dead for a few decades now: The Sin-Eater. Stanley Carver […]
Vol. 7 was a bit of a misfire for this series as the storytelling and the art didn’t click as well as they usually do. “Threats & Menaces,” however, represents a return to form as writer Nick Spencer gets back to what he does best on this title: Showing us familiar and weird bits of […]