Manga and Comic Reviews
The last time we got an anthology of stories featuring the Big Red Guy, it was the excellent “The Return of Effie Kolb.” That collection showed that creator Mike Mignola is still the best there is at telling stories within his own fictional universe with the worst of the stories there better described as just […]
It is the Eleventh Millenium of the Rule of the Eternal Empress and a team of her elite commandos, the Forged, find themselves tasked with a relatively straightforward mission. Go down to the planet Gehenna, and retrieve the black box of a ship that crashed there. The team is a little unimpressed with this mission […]
Kyle Starks finally gets a series to last more than one volume only for it to end with its second. While that may seem like bad news, everything about vol. 2 of “I Hate This Place” indicates that it was intended to tell a ten-issue story. That may not seem like the case at first, […]
When Russia is breathing down your neck, what’s the best way to shore up ties between disparate peoples? In the case of this series its forging bonds between the people of the towns and the people of the steppes, except that the latter clans need to get their own affairs in order first. How are […]
Writer Kelly Thompson and artist Meredith McClaren’s “Heart in a Box” was one of my favorite titles last year. Re-issued in a new edition from Dark Horse, it took what sounded like a predictable setup – girl gives away her heart for peace of mind, comes to regret it, embarks on quest to get heart […]
Jack Lynch wasn’t the best agent the C.I.A. had, but he was on track to have a productive career. Then he wound up in a Russian prison after one mission went bad and then spent the next couple of decades either behind a desk or doing the kind of boring jobs that they give to […]
Actor Luke Indiana played assassination android X-9 for ten of “Rogue Nebula’s” twelve seasons and amassed a sizeable cult following for his efforts. Enough to get him steady work as a guest of honor at conventions, if not a successful acting career following it. While the effort of interacting with fans who clearly adore him […]
Alita and Yunie were kidnapped by the monstrosity known as Gyapollo near the end of the previous volume. They’re now captives of Jakoleva and the kids she’s kept around for her own experiments are thinking about using them for target practice. But who is this battle-happy cyborg who has a mad-on for Keun the Kaufman? […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman/Superman: World’s Finest vol. 1 – The Devil Nezha Finally available in softcover. Mark Waid’s career has been one of ups and downs that best resembles a sine wave that has been going on for decades now. It shows that you should never count him out, and his recent resurgence at DC, starting […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Void Rivals vol. 1: More Than Meets the Eye I, like a lot of other readers, rolled my eyes when this series promised the start of an incredible shared universe when it was first solicited back in April. We’ve heard that kind of promise before, and while I’m in the tank for Robert […]