Manga and Comic Reviews
I hope everyone enjoyed reading lots of words about a manga from Shin’ichi Sakamoto last week, because I’ve got more to say about another series of his that also launched last year. “#DRCL” is arguably the more successful, as it managed to snag an Eisner Award nomination for “Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material – […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Scalped Omnibus vol. 1 Dashiell “Dash” Bad Horse left his reservation years ago to escape the dead-end life he thought it represented. Now he’s back to show everyone there what he’s learned in the intervening years. There’s more to his story as he reconnects with old friends, enemies, exes and throws in with […]
From the far reaches of space, where they confronted some very angry sentient alien life, to the court of the Eternal Empress, the Forged team known as Scimitar-3 made quite the jump at the end of vol. 1. Fortunately their capricious Empress is happy to get the chance to see one of the combat units […]
Cleo, Katie, Lux, Wade, and Will are living in the aftermath of a horrifying incident that happened on their local beach a year ago. That was when some strange creatures emerged and abducted a lot of humans, including Cleo’s little brother Jakey. She has yet to get over this, and all of her friends are […]
Vol. 1 of this series definitely had the feel of “This Is The Story I Had To Tell You Before I Could Tell You This One,” with its closing moments implying that things were finally going to get started here. With regular human Lauren Thomas having entered into a Golden Contract to have her boundless […]
Vol. 1 showcased young executioner Charles-Henri Sanson learning how public executions are meant to be handled and slowly stepping into the role of Monsieur de Paris, the executioner to the royal family of France. Charles’ exploits then were a mixture of ripe melodrama that pitted his kind nature against his difficult upbringing, all rendered majestically […]
Vol. 2 of “Hellblazer With the Serial Numbers Filed Off” finds its protagonist Ellie “Bloody ‘El” Hawthorne still dealing with all of the demons gifted as coins to bastards around London by one Theo Bolger. He’s still trying to use these demons to remake the world, as he would like it to be, but his […]
Writer Tom Taylor has proved his superhero high-concept bonafides with his work on the “DCeased” series of miniseries and now he’s back with another maxiseries for the publisher. This time the big idea is “What If the DC Universe, But in a Medieval Fantasy Setting.” Which is how we get the Kingdom of El, ruled […]
Todd Parker has grown up with his grandfather constantly telling him about the story of Inoki Village. Where there was a prophecy of an outsider with snow-colored skin who would lead them into the light… but actually got everyone killed instead. It’s a story he knows by heart, and never thinks will have any greater […]
Mercenary swordsman Oczy and science-driven monk Badeni ended the previous omnibus by finding the cache of research Rafal and Hubert left behind prior to their deaths. While the mercenary is driven by a sense of responsibility to the friend who entrusted him with this knowledge, the monk sees an opportunity to discover a truth that […]