Manga and Comic Reviews
What does it take to join the Justice League? Being a well-known superhero with powers that can take on global-scale threats is one way. Being really rich, really smart, and having a really unshakeable moral code is another. For others, it’s proving that they can take on giant threats when they come – or are […]
At the end of vol. 10, Alana, Hazel, and Squire’s treehouse ship was set on fire, stranding them on their current planet and rendering them homeless as well. That would make things pretty bad for them… if the ongoing conflict between Wreath and Landfall hadn’t come to this planet as well. So now they’re dealing […]
What we have here is something that is still rarer than I’d like to see from Dark Horse. That would be a new manga with no prior connection to other media. It’s not based on an anime or live-action series, nor is it spun off from a videogame or light novel. “Innocent’s” only basis is […]
Sully and Ethan are former army veterans who served their country and paid the price for it. In Sully’s case that means he was left with a traumatic brain injury and the mental instability that comes with it. Ethan, on the other hand, lost his leg and now experiences near-constant pain as a result of […]
When Richard Corben passed away in December 2020, I was aware he was considered to be a legend in the comics industry. That said, my appreciation of him came from his latter-day work with DC (“Hellblazer: Hard Time”), Marvel (“Startling Stories: Banner,” “Cage”), and, of course, Dark Horse (“Hellboy: Makoma, The Crooked Man, and House […]
Vol. 7 in this series did something no other volume had before: End on a cliffhanger. Kippa had forced her way into Maika’s mind, while the latter’s awakened body was inflicting all sorts of chaos in the real world, in order to repair the damage done there. That was a hopeful note to end on […]
Much like “Bocchi the Rock,” this is another series that I decided to start reading after I watched the anime adaptation earlier this year. The adaptation was much-hyped as it was based on the manga written by “Kaguya-sama’s” Aka Akasaka and was going to feature a 90-minute premiere. While I was spoiled for the premiere’s […]
The back half of this volume is more or less what you’d expect from this series. There’s a one-off where Loid’s spymaster boss has to foil an attack on a VIP while imparting a lesson about the subjective nature of truth to one of her subordinates. Anya also gets to spend some time with the […]
The Joker is running amok in Gotham and Batman is chasing after him. Sounds like your average Tuesday night in the city, right? Well, when the Caped Crusader catches up with him, he finds a feral, super-strong creature with sharp teeth that bears only a superficial resemblance to the Clown Prince of Crime. What’s going […]
Christopher Chance makes a living by impersonating people who’ve been targeted for murder. His latest job has him taking the identity of someone who a lot of people in the DC Universe would like to see dead: Lex Luthor. While he has no problem foiling the main assassination plot, the backup plan to get Luthor […]