Manga and Comic Reviews
“Sherlock Frankenstein” is a great name. It’s an unlikely mash-up of two of the most famous characters in fiction that grabs your attention right away with its promise of weirdness and horror tempered by rationality. He’s also a character who fits perfectly within the superhero pastiche of the “Black Hammer” world, of which this is […]
The slow-y burn-y approach of “Outcast” continues unabated in this volume as a major new character makes his debut. Rowland Tusk has just moved to the town of Rome and is dealing with the usual headaches that such a thing entails. A wife who has to deal with the unpacking, kids who are uneasy about […]
What fresh hell awaits us in this volume? Not much, all things considered. Compared to previous volumes where I was expecting “Murcielago” to stop trying to shock me, only to be proven wrong in unsettling and/or skin-crawling ways, this volume is relatively sedate. A kid gets stabbed in the head, a woman gets part of […]
Wizord’s story takes a backseat in this volume so that writer Charles Soule and artist Ryan Browne can focus on two key members of the supporting cast: Marsupial-loving Margaret and living, breathing French joke Jacques Zaques. The latter becomes less of a joke in this volume (well, insomuch as a Frenchman named Jacques Zaques can […]
It’s time for the culmination of long-running subplots once again. Over in X-Men: Blue it’s that title’s first go at it as we finally find out the full scope of the Mothervine business that Miss Sinister has been planning ever since the first volume. X-Men: Gold has already had one go at paying off on […]
For those whose “X-Men” fandom can be traced back to following the comics in the 90’s (or watching the animated series from the same era) Rogue and Gambit’s relationship was arguably the defining romance of the time. She was the strong-willed southern belle whose powers prevented anyone from touching her skin and he was the […]
For around half of its length “Rome West” presents a fascinating alternate history of North America courtesy of co-writers Justin Giampaoli and Brian Wood, and artist Andrea Mutti. It starts with a just likely enough to be believable development when a Roman fleet is caught in a storm and its survivors wind up landing on […]
Leonardo Watch is about to face his biggest challenge yet as a member of Libra. It starts off with his sister breaking the news that not only is she getting married, she’s coming to visit him in Hellsalem’s Lot with her fiancee in tow. The good news is that said fiancee, Toby McLachlan, looks to […]
At the end of vol. 1, Adrian Padilla looked like he had been freed of the demonic presence that had haunted his past life as cultist Gregory Sutter thanks to a hypnotherapist who knew what she was doing. Then, before he could turn himself in and let the cops sort things out, he was kidnapped […]
It’s been great to see Miles Morales become a significant part of the Spider-mythos over the years. Not only has he been embraced by fans, but he’s also found his way into mainstream culture as well — he’s appearing in the “Spider-Man” game coming out next week and has the lead role in the “Into […]