Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Poison Ivy vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle “Poison Ivy” by writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara was originally greenlit as a six-issue miniseries and conventional wisdom dictated that you wouldn’t have been wrong to bet against it being just that. A one-off miniseries by some respected creators who would move on […]
The cover to this volume has a happy-looking Joan in a familiar housewife getup that suggests a veneer of domestic normalcy. Which doesn’t come through at all because it also shows that she’s poisoned her husband and two sons while saying, “Hello again! My name is Joan Peterson… and I probably love my family!” It […]
X-Statix now know what their former leader, Zeitgeist, is up to. He’s been causing gleeful chaos across the nation all in the name of building up his social media presence. Why? For the fortune? For the fame? For the lulz? No, for the followers. This is because he’s stolen a page from the Book of […]
The “Silver Scent” arc which started at the end of the previous volume involved a young girl murdering a bunch of thugs after coming into contact with Celine “The Perfumer” Argente. So far, so standard for “Murcielago.” Things quickly escalate after it’s revealed that she’s not the only criminal to have entered Japan just now. […]
When we last saw Jerri Bartman, she was settling into her role as Count Crowley, host of the Friday Night Scream Feature show on her family’s local network. She had also just killed a zombie in her brother’s office and was that much closer to becoming appointed as the new monster hunter around town. This […]
That subtitle makes this miniseries sound more intimidating than it actually is. “A Tale of the Shrouded College” gives you the impression that you’re buying into a story that’s larger than the one being told here. I can tell you that’s not the case as its creator, writer Charles Soule, states at the end of […]
After finally putting Abigail Brand and Orbis Stellaris’ plans for Arakko to rest in the previous volume, you’d think that the cast of this series would be entitled to a little downtime. “A little” is exactly what they get as Storm is summoned away from a date to discuss Magneto’s last moments with Professor X […]
The manga was better. It’s a common refrain that’s usually used to talk about any adaptation of such into other media. Usually used when talking about the anime version of a popular series in my case. That’s not always the case as there are times when the passion of the people adapting the material shines […]
Simon Bruttenholm and Honora Grant may have survived working with Sir Edward Grey in “Witchfinder vol. 5: The Gates of Heaven,” but now they’re going to have to rely only on each other in this tale. After one of Simon’s research partners goes missing, the two head to the village of Noxton to investigate as […]
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 […]