Manga and Comic Reviews
It has an art style that owes a deep debt to Hayao Miyazaki’s work on “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind.” There’s also the fact that it makes a big deal out of making meals from fantasy creatures like “Delicious in Dungeon” does. Which means that “Drifting Dragons” is kind of a mash-up of two […]
Man, I’d forgotten that vol. 5 was published at the end of 2017. I thought it had only been a year since it came out and “Drifters” was actually managing something resembling an annual schedule. Silly me. Anyways, the latest battle in the war against the Black King is getting underway at the start of […]
“Critical Role” is a hugely popular web series where voice actors roleplay their Dungeons & Dragons characters over the course of an evolving storyline that has spawned its own fandom, a ton of merchandise, and the most-funded TV & Film Kickstarter in history. Because it’s always easier for me to find an entry point into […]
It only took them a little over 13 years, but DC finally has their “Marvel Zombies.” You know, the kind of story that shows what happens when their universe succumbs to a zombie outbreak. What happens isn’t quite as inventive or darkly amusing as that series was, but it still offers a propulsive superhero action/horror […]
I liked the first volume of “Miles Morales” well enough, even if its stories didn’t really break out from the established “Spider-Man” story mold. Vol. 2, however, is a big step in the right direction. The first issue is essentially four-stories-in-one as Ron Ackins, Alitha Martinez, and Vanessa Del Ray join regular artist Javier Garron […]
Back in the first volume of this series, we got to meet someone who had a big influence on Aphra’s life: Her father, Korin. Seeing him in action was a real “This explains a lot” moment for her character. Korin was only half of the parenting equation for Aphra, as we haven’t heard a whole […]
Mangaka Gou Tanabe’s art is once again the major selling point for the second half of his adaptation of Lovecraft’s novel. Whether he’s drawing carvings of the history of the Great Old Ones, or actually showing it to us, or displaying two men of science fleeing for their lives in abject terror, there’s a confidence […]
I said that the way things wrapped up in the previous volume was just enough to get me to come back for this one. Now, if you’ve already listened to the latest podcast, then you’ll know that I didn’t think it was worth it. The “Black Hammer” saga (or at least this leg of it) […]
Half of this volume is pretty great. The first two issues are the tie-in with “War of the Realms” and start off with Otto phasing San Franciscans out of reality while he deals with the frost giants stomping around the city. Realizing that a surgical strike could end this war real quick, he teams up […]
As you all know, Bendis unleashed a flurry of creator-owned projects when he arrived at DC. “Pearl,” the story of a young tattoo artist who gets a crash course in her connections to the San Francisco Yakuza, is the only one of them to receive a follow-up at this point. While I liked the first […]