Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Fortune & Glory: The Musical I’ve written and talked before about how I think the original “Fortune & Glory” is one of the best things that Bendis has ever done. His adventures in the screen trade in dealing with attempts to make movies out of “Goldfish” and “Torso” contain some of his most […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Thrawn: Alliances I’ve become more selective about what “Star Wars” comics I buy from Marvel over the years simply because they publish too many to make keeping up with all of them an affordable and/or reasonable proposition. However, when their publication schedule did make such a thing feasible, one of the comics I […]
First off, let me give a shout-out to Fix Laptop in Downtown San Jose. I needed to pick up an ethernet cable after I arrived and they hooked me up with one, saving me the trouble of having to find a way out to the nearest Target or Wal-Mart. Second, if you’re looking for sushi […]
There’s a city of gold up in the northern regions that has lured many an adventurer seeking their fortune. The Continental Magic Association, however, has sealed this city behind a magical barrier not just to keep adventurers out, but to keep something sealed in. That would be Macht, who is not just one of the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation Feral vol. 1 Elsie, Patch, and Lord Fluffy Britches are three cats who have spent most of their lives as indoor pets. That suddenly changes one day when they find themselves outside and on the run from all manner of beasts during a nightmarish rabies outbreak. Now, instead of having to worry about […]
“There’s an enemy here, Jolyne! It’s an alligator! Run! Its invisible corpse is running across the floor!” That sentence should give you an inkling as to just how crazy things are going to get in this volume. After the business with Debt Collector Mary Lynn Manson is wrapped up, the series plunges into its next […]
…like, right now. Once the confusion over the showdown in the visitor’s room is over, things become much more focused again. To the point where the real narrative thrust of this “Part” becomes clear as it turns out that it’s not just Jolyne’s future that’s at stake here, but her father’s as well. The stand […]
Yeah, I know this came out back in November. I didn’t plan to have it sit on my “To Review” pile for this long, but… it just happened. Don’t take this as an indictment of this latest series’ quality following the end of “Golden Wind.” While it was good overall, it was the rare title […]
This is the start of a new series written by Rick Remender. Does that mean we’re getting something that’s good and makes me want to read more? Promising but with issues? Depressing enough to get me to stop reading the series after one volume? Or something that shows the writer trying to evolve his established […]