Manga and Comic Reviews
Enter Yu Ishigami! The student council’s elusive treasurer finally makes his appearance in Kaguya-Sama: Love is War vol. 3 and proves to be a worthy addition to the core cast. He’s a gloomy otaku with a gift for number crunching and an unfortunate knack for saying or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. […]
In the wake of the “Hydra Cap” storyline and “Secret Empire’s” uh… decidedly mixed reception, it’s safe to say that Marvel felt Captain America’s image could use a little rehabilitation. But what creative team could be trusted with the task of getting Cap back to his old heroic standard? That would turn out to be […]
Ok, so it turns out that the trans-dimensional crisis involving the monsters streaming from magical portals in the absence of Wakanda’s gods is genuine. Klaw showing up with a hard-light hologram machine at the end of the previous volume was just his way of trying to cash in on the current crisis to troll his […]
I was primed to enjoy the setup of “Portland Homicide Detective Who Is Also a Witch” as it was coming from the creative team of Greg Rucka and Nicole Scott. What I got with the first volume was something that ultimately felt a bit too conventional even with its supernatural trappings. It takes a while […]
When I heard that this new series, co-written and co-illustrated by Pablo Raimondi and Klaus Janson, was going to feature oversized issues I regarded it as a good thing. With most comics clocking in at 20-22 pages an issue, having one that ranges from 45-66 pages with the bigger ones only costing a dollar more […]
For all its flaws, “Gantz” never bothered with filler arcs. Sure, there were some storylines that probably would’ve benefitted from judicious editing, but every arc served to push the main story forward in some way. There were never any arcs that took the focus away from the main characters and showed us how another group […]
With a title like that you’d figure that you’re in for a real bummer of a read, right? Well, in order to actually be depressed about the “Fall of the Batmen” depicted here you’d have to have some kind of emotional investment in the characters’ struggle up to this point. As James Tynion’s run so […]
This series came off of a high point with “Ring of Fire” only to head into the merely okay “Temple of OD” flashback/sidestory. Where does “The Specter of Tomorrow” fit in? Right between those two, closer to the upper end than the lower. After saving the world, Robo and the rest of the scientists at […]
“The Neil Gaiman Library” at Dark Horse gets another inspired addition with this adaptation of a story that blends the mythos of Sherlock Holmes and Cthulhu. We begin with London’s greatest criminal investigator and his war veteran roommate finding themselves challenged with solving the murder of a Bohemian Prince. What did this prince do to […]
My concern after the (still compulsively readable) vol. 9 was that this series was going to wind up becoming “The Thorfinn Show” as the main plot continued to focus in on him to the exclusion of the rest of the cast. That’s still a valid concern with this volume as Thorfinn meets Vagn, the leader […]