Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cat + Crazy vol. 1 I wasn’t sure if there was going to be enough of an audience to support a series like mangaka Wataru Nadatani’s “Cat + Gamer” when Dark Horse first published it. The series was, after all, a simple little slice of life series about a gaming focused office lady […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Moonshine Bigfoot #1 (of 4) Sometimes, all it takes is a great title. Moonshine Bigfoot is a Bigfoot who spends his days in 1981 living the dream: Outwitting dumb cops, making fools of his rivals, and always remaining one step ahead of hunters of his kind. He does it all in his tricked-out […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: Detective Comics by Tom Taylor vol. 1 – Mercy of the Father Gotham City is being stalked by a serial killer, which means that it must be a day that ends in a “y.” What sets this one apart from all the others is that they’re killing teens, juvenile delinquents, and young […]
Three looters come across a derelict spaceship in the far future and decide to see what’s inside. They immediately come across a journal from a young student named Kazuma. He was one member of a class that was going on a field trip until their ship was struck by an outside force and damaged beyond […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku If I’m being honest, this collection deserves this spot simply for being a collection of all three “Battle of Jakku” miniseries. Though this was clearly meant to be a twelve-issue maxiseries, Marvel published it weekly as three four-part miniseries: “Insurgency Rising,” “Republic Under Siege,” and “Last Stand.” […]
The Joker is up to his old tricks again, and more of Gotham’s mob bosses are dead as a result. While the Clown Prince of Crime thinks that this will clear the way for him and some of his fellow supervillains to rule Gotham once more, they’re not having it. The likes of Two-Face, the […]
The crew of the Defiant’s bounty hunting days are behind them, and they’re ready to be done with each other after how it all turned out. All they have to do is deliver their quarries to Starbase 99 and they can go their separate ways. Once they arrive at the decrepit space station (which is […]
The monster is still out there, but now Asa has more important concerns. Like attending her friend Yone’s idol audition in front of some industry executives. Her manager, Noro, may have come off like a two-bit hustler before, but he’s got a plan to ensure “Marilyn Nomajin” makes an impression here to become the next […]
Vol. 2 left off with the promise of a plan just so crazy it might work: Nathan Bright was going to go undercover as Ian Black – the terrorist he used to be – in order to help the Earth government take out Jenner, the leader of the terrorist organization known as the Sword of […]
As far as supervillain plans go, Brother Eternity’s is a straightforward one: Establish a religious cult on Earth to give him a power base and then leverage it to stage an expedition to the Saturn moon of Titan. Once there, speak words of power and unleash the Necrostar into the Solar System. After that: Profit. […]