Manga and Comic Reviews
Conventional wisdom dictates that “Kaguya-Sama’s” best days are behind it now. After all, Kaguya and Miyuki are now a couple so all of the romantic tension is deflated along with the “Will They or Won’t They” shenanigans. If fourteen volumes of this series have told us anything, it’s that “Kaguya-Sama” laughs in the face of […]
It took a while, but “Diamond is Unbreakable” finally realized its main plot and actually steered a couple of its principal characters into a conflict with Stand-wielding serial killer Yoshikage Kira. However, the characters in question were Jotaro Joestar and Koichi. In other words: “Guy Who was the Protagonist in the Last Arc” and “Best […]
It took three years, and a Netflix movie, but we finally got a second volume of “The Old Guard.” I really enjoyed the first volume and the self-contained story it told made it so that the wait for this volume wasn’t as taxing as it could’ve been. Still, it was advertised as “vol. 1” so […]
Bendis wrote two teenage versions of Spider-Man very well for a very long time over at Marvel. So when he pitched DC on writing two of its preeminent superteams that happen to be made up of teenagers, the company apparently went “Okay, sure.” and let him have at it. Naturally I picked up the first […]
Back in the early days of my anime/manga fandom, a popular bit of trivia about mangaka Rumiko Takahashi was that she was the second-richest woman in Japan. It was an easy to believe factoid, too. She was the creator of long-running hits like “Urusei Yatsura,” “Ranma ½” and her current series, “Inuyasha,” was working its […]
The fight against the Jinoo rages on for the Sangeryes family in this volume. It picks up with the “Red Summer Special” to fill in some backstory regarding its cast, with the bits regarding youngest son Cullen being the most relevant to the main story. We saw him dragged off to the realm of the […]
“Hellblazer” may not have been the best or buzziest title to have served under the Vertigo banner, but it was consistently good for a lot longer than you’d expect from a Mature Readers title that started in the late 80’s and ran for 300 issues. That’s just one reason I liked it. There were plenty […]
War has come to the known world as the Federation marches against the Arcanic Kingdom. The Federation’s first target is the Walled City of Ravenna, whose battlements have kept out invaders for a thousand years. It’s a record that looks to see its end if the attacking army’s new weapons are as powerful as they’re […]
This was a satisfyingly dense volume. It starts off strongly by revealing the nature of the threat from the previous volume, which I recognized from its presence in one of my favorite songs from a videogame. That Chise is clever enough to find a way to deal with it isn’t a surprise, though the role […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Two Moons #1 Apparently the premise of, “Warrior of the gods resurrected as a scarecrow to fight his enemies in the present day alongside his white trash friends” wasn’t uncommercial enough for writer John Arcudi. Now he’s back, and teamed up with artist Valerio Giangiordano for a young Pawnee man fighting for the […]