Manga and Comic Reviews
The Minstrel and his daughter Karli are wandering from town to town singing about the exploits of the man named Groo. And there are so many to choose from! Such as the time he tried to help out some towns by converting them into scenic ruins. Or when he accidentally consigned a bunch of kids […]
Vol. 13 of this series ended on a triumphant moment of forgiveness, capping off an installment where it looked like Thorfinn’s vision of a land without war was genuinely possible. So if you wanted “Vinland Saga” to have a Mega Happy Ending then you should’ve stopped reading there. While I enjoyed that volume, it was […]
While Cyclops and his band of X-Men are busy getting back to the business of being public-facing superheroes, another group is still trying to figure out what their next step will be. That would be Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, and Jubilee (with a visit from Nightcrawler) as they head down to Louisiana to crash with another […]
It may be early in Batman’s career, but he feels he’s got a handle on how to handle the human thugs and freaks he encounters in Gotham City. Then a mob from the East End hires an alien for protection who manages to clean his clock and the Dark Knight realizes he has a lot […]
At the end of vol.3, the remaining crew of the Defiant – Worf, Spock, B’Elanna, and Ro – found themselves at the mercy of Sela’s father, General Revo. When this volume begins, we find out that Worf, B’Elanna, and Ro have been press-ganged into abducting some key Romulan officials while Spock has been sent to […]
Ruri Aoki was your average junior high school student, until the day she woke up with horns growing out of her head. It turns out that her mother has been keeping a big secret from her: That her dad is actually a dragon. Now Ruri has to go through life knowing that and looking like […]
It was inevitable, after all. When Jonathan Hickman radically redefined the “X-Men’s” place in the Marvel Universe it felt like a genuine breath of fresh air after years of doing the same ol’, same ol’. It was such a dramatic change to their status quo that it felt like it couldn’t last forever and that […]
The African continent is wracked by war! On one side are Khonshu and Ra, who make up the force known as Moon Knight which sits at the Maker’s table. On the other is the continent’s secret power, Wakanda, and its young king T’Challa who is determined to put his opponents in the ground. Standing in […]
His name is Simon Pure, and he’s anything but as you’ll know after reading through this volume. As a soldier in the British Army during the American Revolution he ran for his life after witnessing what George Washington was really capable of, and found himself right in the middle of a mysterious ceremony involving Benjamin […]
Elsie, Patch, and Lord Fluffy Britches were housecats who found themselves struggling to survive an outbreak of super-rabies. By the end of the first volume, Patch was infected, Lord was lost, and Elsie had met up with Gigi, who managed to survive giving birth to three kittens. Months have passed and this latter clutter of […]