Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu The solicitation text calls this Lovecraft’s most popular novel and given the title character’s prolificacy in pop culture, I’m hard-pressed to disagree. The story itself involves two bands of cultists, one in the Arctic and one in the bayous of Louisiana who share a practice of blood […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Titans: Beast World It’s billed as the first “Titans”-centric DC event, which sounds overdue after the team has been in circulation for over 40 years now. That’s not what’s drawing me to this event, as it’ll be the first time I’ve started following the team which formerly had “Teen” in front of their […]
Eizouken’s latest work about the wooden clock tower, produced with the Anime Culture Studies Club, is another success for them. However, while they’ve always moved forward for each new project, their latest one sees them taking a step back. Back to where it all started with the short that got them established as a club […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Fall of the House of X/Rise of the Powers of X As if it could be anything else from this round of solicitations. The “Krakoan Era” of “X-Men” has been one of its most fascinating. It took the marginalized status of mutants and flipped it on its head by making them not just […]
Some kids have an overactive imagination, where they interact with the things they can only see in their minds eye. Danny Dillon’s imagination is a bit different, where the things that he can only see in his head can also interact with the real world. It’s something he’s kept to himself and tried to put […]
WAR HAS COME TO ARAKKO! On one side is Genesis, the former ruler of the Arakki people, come to reclaim them from what she, and the whispering Annihilation staff, see as the weaknesses they have incurred on their time in this plane. On the other are Storm and her Brotherhood, determined to show these mutants […]
Groo ended his last adventure in “Gods Against Groo” stranded out on the ocean with his faithful companion Rufferto. It’s a rare bit of continuity between stories that doesn’t portend anything longer as he soon finds himself back on dry land, and hungry! He’s got a craving for seafood, fruits, birds, or any kind of […]
The stakes continue to get higher with this volume as we find out what Celine “The Perfumer” Argente has come to Japan to find. Under Hakua’s orders, she’s to track down “Tozakura” which is described as an unnatural flower in a mountain somewhere, but longtime readers will also know it as Hinako’s last name. Surely […]
In vol. 3, things left off on a somewhat ominous note which was perfectly primed to take advantage of all the bad stuff that was going to happen at the latest “Hellfire Gala.” In this volume, we get to pick up on the fallout of that event in some satisfying ways. What of Charles Xavier, […]
Last time was all the setup for the latest “Hellfire Gala” and “Fall of X,” and I mentioned that it didn’t exactly get me excited for the idea of Marvel’s Merry Mutants losing to a secret science organization that hates them. Again. So I guess it’s appropriate that the five issues collected here are… perfectly […]