Manga and Comic Reviews
Vol. 1 showcased young executioner Charles-Henri Sanson learning how public executions are meant to be handled and slowly stepping into the role of Monsieur de Paris, the executioner to the royal family of France. Charles’ exploits then were a mixture of ripe melodrama that pitted his kind nature against his difficult upbringing, all rendered majestically […]
Vol. 2 of “Hellblazer With the Serial Numbers Filed Off” finds its protagonist Ellie “Bloody ‘El” Hawthorne still dealing with all of the demons gifted as coins to bastards around London by one Theo Bolger. He’s still trying to use these demons to remake the world, as he would like it to be, but his […]
Writer Tom Taylor has proved his superhero high-concept bonafides with his work on the “DCeased” series of miniseries and now he’s back with another maxiseries for the publisher. This time the big idea is “What If the DC Universe, But in a Medieval Fantasy Setting.” Which is how we get the Kingdom of El, ruled […]
Todd Parker has grown up with his grandfather constantly telling him about the story of Inoki Village. Where there was a prophecy of an outsider with snow-colored skin who would lead them into the light… but actually got everyone killed instead. It’s a story he knows by heart, and never thinks will have any greater […]
Mercenary swordsman Oczy and science-driven monk Badeni ended the previous omnibus by finding the cache of research Rafal and Hubert left behind prior to their deaths. While the mercenary is driven by a sense of responsibility to the friend who entrusted him with this knowledge, the monk sees an opportunity to discover a truth that […]
If you’re like me and you enjoyed “The Warworld Saga,” this is the follow up to that as we find out what happens when (wait for it…) Kal-El returns to Earth. First on his agenda is making sure that the inhabitants of Warworld are now safe as they orbit the Earth as well as from […]
This comic comes with a cover price of $25. It’s not worth paying $25 to read. That’s partly because it’s only 152 pages. It’s mostly true because it’s just kind of “okay” in terms of quality. However, if you’re like me and you’re a fan of Bendis who also found it in a half-off bin […]
The gated community of Wilmhurst is an exclusive one even by the regular standards of these things. After all, it’s made up of every kind of slasher movie villain type as they cool their heels between rampages. The unkillable monster. The family of cannibal hillbillies. The serial killer whose spirit is trapped in a doll. […]
Jack Xaver, formerly the superhero known as Crossjack, may still be hated by his fellow townspeople, but he’s marginally less hated by its sheriff after what they went through with Camo Crusader in the previous volume. Which is why he’s asking Jack to look into the death of a high school girl whose autopsy says […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing – The Complete Series One Joker was bad enough. Now there are two and they’ve both got very different ideas about how to get back on top of Gotham’s criminal underworld. One thinks that the best way to do it is to assemble an army of […]