Manga and Comic Reviews
This volume starts off with a couple brief bits of nonsense involving a vengeful superior at the hospital Loid Forger works at and Yuri Briar’s latest series of failed efforts to show that the man his sister married is just no good. The rest of vol. 10 picks up considerably as Anya, Becky, Damien, and […]
You’d think that helping save Gotham from Derek Powers as an AI projection hologram in “Beyond the White Knight” would’ve left Jack Napier without any regrets. Except that he still has two kids he never got the chance to know, Jackie and Bryce Quinn, and he’d really like the chance to rectify that. So would […]
For two (actually three) volumes, writer Tom Taylor has been building up the conflict between the title character and Blockbuster, the crime boss who runs the city of Bludhaven. That conflict reaches its next stage after Dick “Nightwing” Grayson successfully builds and opens the community outreach hub known as Haven and his nemesis orders some […]
Six supervillains imprisoned on the Raft are found shot in the head in their cells with no easy explanation as to how that happened. One of them is Whirlwind, a frequent antagonist of Janet “The Wasp” Van Dyne who feels responsible for looking into what happened because she helped put him there. Janet’s in for […]
The efforts of two heroes trying to redeem themselves by finding a way to bring a boy that died because of their actions is just the tip of the iceberg for this maxiseries. In addition to the story of Warlord and Mikaal “Starman” Tomas, you’ve got Manhunter trying to track down the remaining teenage billionaires […]
These volumes serve as a bridge between arcs and the hope is that the Japan Anti-Kaiju Defense Force will be able to turn the setback they suffered at the start of vol. 7 into a win with the conflict that starts in vol. 8. So what do we have to look forward to in between? […]
Or “Fables vol. 23: The Black Forest,” which is what I imagine this volume will be called, whenever it hits softcover. That’s just one more complication on what has already been a very rocky road for this revival. While this series was beloved during its original run at DC/Vertigo, people becoming more aware of creator […]
We all knew it was coming, creator Stjepan Sejic told us as much in the afterword to the previous volume, but this installment of the “Mercy” arc of the series sees the end of both of the relationships it’s been spotlighting up to this point. Not at first, though, as BDSM enthusiasts Alan and Ally […]
They’ve been building to the title event for two volumes now, and vol. 3 begins by having Jon Kent… confront his boyfriend Jay Nakamura about whether or not he’s an actual terrorist. He’s not, of course, as the Revolutionaries are a fighting-for-freedom group whose members will look a little familiar to those who’ve read Tom […]
Shin’ichi Sakamoto gave the impression that he was preparing to stage the most handsomely mounted period version of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with the first volume of this series. It had style to burn, all in the service of what looked to be a retelling of “Dracula” with most of the cast transplanted and transposed […]