Manga and Comic Reviews
This volume arrived on Monday. If I had more foresight I would have had that WTH revelation lead directly into this review, because… Revealing that charismatic Ainu revolutionary Kiroranke was one of the people who assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II certainly ranks as one of the more outrageous backstories in this series. I’d go so […]
Are we done here? Nope! How do you follow up a volume that combined Russian wall-fighting, manly steam baths, and wolverines? By having the majority of it take place at the circus! After an urchin steals one of their bags, Sugimoto’s group tracks him back to Yamada’s Circus who are back in Japan after a […]
Yes, there is a trend here… Given that a not-insignificant portion of this volume is given over to wolverine fighting, I was a little disappointed that nobody tried to sneak in a “The best it is at what it does” joke in the script. Anyhow, an actually significant portion of this volume involves the manly […]
How close am I to the bottom of my “To Review” pile? You’re about to find out… Vol. 13 left off with Immortal Sugimoto about to face down the guards of Abashiri Prison, who were facing the imminent threat of Lieutenant Tsurumi’s forces. In short, that cliffhanger ending promised a volume where all hell broke […]
I talked about the first volume of this series with Rob and Myron almost two months back, and while we had some reservations about it, we generally liked vol. 1. Yes, it’s a world whose level of realism is set at “Bond Movie Featuring Roger Moore,” but it had lots of charm to complement its […]
“Silver Spoon” is a lot of things, including a romantic comedy. Only in the sense that Hachiken and Mikage’s romance has been played for nothing but laughs since the start of the series. However, as the series heads into its final stretch, mangaka Hiromu Arakawa finally has to get around to making them an official […]
We get another volume-length story, right after the one featured in vol. 3, and it’s a much better one too. Picking up right after the last-panel cliffhanger, the Quin Zaza isn’t able to avoid being clipped by the ship it crosses paths with. The damage is enough to ground the draking ship, and that has […]
“The Ride” is a series of crime comics about what happens to the people who come into possession of, or cross paths with a certain 1968 Camero. Don’t go expecting any “Christine” style shenanigans as the proceedings are played entirely straight. However, the car itself is usually incidental to the story in question, and that’s […]
It doesn’t have a volume number attached to it, but this is essentially vol. 4 of Dan Slott’s run. “The Ultron Agenda” also serves to bring a lot of the subplots from the past issues — the A.I. rights movement, Jocasta’s human yearnings, Aaron Stack’s machines-first feelings, Arno Stark’s treachery, Sunset Bain’s scheming — together […]
I was planning on skipping this volume because I thought it was just a tie-in to the event. Then I noticed it was labeled “vol. 3” and actually contained a proper issue of the series. That being said, the two-issue tie-in from writer Gail Simone and artist Paolo Villanelli is the best part of this […]