Manga and Comic Reviews
Hope may have died in the previous volume, but Luke, Leia, Han, R2, and Threepio are still alive and kicking. Unfortunately, even help from ace smuggler Sana Staros isn’t enough to get them through Imperial space undetected. Now they’re stuck on the isolationist moon of Hubin home to Clan Markona. They’re an easygoing bunch of […]
Nathan Bright doesn’t quite have it all, but what he does have is pretty good. He’s the most popular weatherman on Mars thanks to his wacky personality and crazy on-air antics. So while fame and fortune are his, he’s got a personality that doesn’t really encourage the ladies to call back for second dates. This […]
Well, Wizord and Ruby Stitch had a good run in our world but it looks like it’s coming to a very violent end. It’s all down to the return of vengeance-seeking Frenchman — now with magic of his own — Jacques Zaques. While his initial attack doesn’t go quite the way he was expecting, Jacques […]
I’ve always wondered what “Murcielago” would look like when it finally shed its constant desire to shock, titillate, or disturb the reader. With vol. 10, I finally have my answer. More than that since it also sheds any attempts at (ridiculous) over-the-top action like we saw in the previous volume. It all starts when Kuroko, […]
Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Even when that thing is seeing privileged, arrogant, and condescending icy blonde white schoolgirls put in their place? I realize that’s a rather specific categorization, but it’s wholly appropriate to this “Empowered” spinoff volume. As the title implies, it’s a team-up between Emp and […]
Much like the first volume Jimmy’s Bastards vol. 2: What Did You Just Say? is one of the writer’s better recent comedic efforts. This doesn’t mean that it’s particularly funny, unless the sight of seeing an insane Sean Connery-alike humping someones leg or men walking around with ginormous breasts sends you into irrepressible giggle fits. […]
For a series where the majority of its first volume built up the mystery of the place known as The Black Barn, it took some real guts from creators Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino to actually show off what it was in the same volume. Now that they’ve done that, what does the series have […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Wicked + The Divine vol. 9: Okay Yes, Kieron Gillen does seem to find his way up here quite frequently. It was honestly a tough choice this month between this and… well, it probably won’t be too hard to guess what other title I was considering for this spot when you start […]
The first volume of mangaka Shuzo Oshimi’s latest look at how the life of a milquetoast male is upended by an unconventional female didn’t get off to the best of starts in my opinion. There was some drama to be had in seeing how shut-in Isao Komori wound up in the body of high school […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Menace Revealed vol. 2 It’s not that there isn’t anything uninteresting in these solicitations. It’s just that I don’t feel like giving this spot to the latest round of events, stunts, and next-volumes-of-series-I’m-reading that I’m expecting to be “good” rather than “great.” Which is why I’m giving […]