Manga and Comic Reviews
Meet Bill, Josh, Pete, and Jerry. They’re the members of The Eltingville Comic Book, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing club, experts in their respective fields of geekdom, and some of the most awful and repugnant characters I have read about in fiction in some time. Seriously, they’re personifications of some of fandom’s worst traits […]
The good times continue in this volume as Barbara Gordon finds out that her dad is the new Batman. How does this happen? Well, like any responsible parent, Commissioner Jim Gordon tells his daughter straight up. It’s a nice scene that bucks expectations and leads to some interesting dramatic irony when Nu-Batman meets Batgirl as […]
This is another first volume from Yen Press that only costs $3 digitally on Amazon. Unlike “Handa-kun,” I was left ready for more after reading it and was disappointed to find that the company is letting the release of the digital editions lag behind print. That’s because “Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun” is a charming and funny […]
The funny stuff is still funny and the sexy stuff is still sexy in this series. So what’s left to talk about? Well, there is the conflict that threatens to split apart Lisa and Ally’s relationship. Though the volume begins with the former moving into the latter’s apartment with all sorts of romantic, sexual, and […]
At this point, Dark Horse has published more “Halo” comics for a longer time than when Marvel had the license to do so. The one thing they haven’t done, however, is publish a hardcover anthology of short stories based in this videogame universe. Well, that’s going to change this October when Dark Horse puts out […]
Remember when creators Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque put this series on hiatus for a year so that they’d be able to work on all of the issues together and have them come out on schedule? Yeah, that worked out real well. It took Snyder and Albuquerque over a year to put out the six […]
This is a prequel of sorts to “Barakamon” in the sense that it shows what Sei Handa, the straightlaced calligrapher protagonist of that series, was like back in highschool. As it turns out, he was even more uptight and neurotic when he was younger. This is because Handa is convinced that everyone in school hates […]
It bills itself as the best superhero title in the universe. So why would “Invincible” ever consider doing a reboot? Mainly to freak out fans at the possibility that Robert Kirkman’s long-running superhero title might be giving in to the compulsion that has gripped the Big Two for the past few years. Naturally, that’s not […]
Now this is more like it. Writer Fred Van Lente has yet to truly distinguish his run from previous “Conan” writers, but he turns in a tale with more variety and energy than the one he delivered in the previous volume. In order to obtain the treasure hoard known by the mute slave girl Diana, […]
Up until the end, this latest volume of the weird adventures of Lewis and Clark is another successful round of high adventure on the untamed American frontier. This time around the explorers see one of the mysterious arches in the distance and two weird things for their trouble. The first is a blue-feathered, smart-assed, Muppet-like […]