Manga and Comic Reviews
After four volumes we’re finally getting to the part of the manga that wasn’t covered by the anime (yet – Season Two is coming this summer). We’re also getting a look at another aspect of the Japanese entertainment industry as Aqua, along with Kana and Aakane, is recruited to be part of the theatrical adaptation […]
“Choose.” That’s what the robot at the heart of Radiant Black told Marshall and Nathan at the end of vol. 4 after they tried to figure out what was going wrong with their power. It turns out that only one of them can be the hero in this story after all and it’s up to […]
WonderCon was dealt a bad hand this weekend as it coincided with the latest storm system to hit Southern California. Rain? In SoCal? I’m as shocked as you are, but storms have been hitting pretty regularly for these past few weekends. We’ll likely be back to our regularly scheduled drought season next year, though. Bad […]
Three volumes in and Riko Kozakura thinks she has this whole cat ownership thing down. So much so that when the idea of adding another cat to her household is raised, she jumps at it. A few hoops later and Musubi now has a roommate. But are they going to get along? Will Musubi’s territoriality […]
Hitwoman Jagger Rose and Made Man Valentine Gallo have been through some stuff over the previous volumes. From being on the run from the Bonavese Family – the Family they were originally a part of – to Valentine finding out he was born to be a snitch for the FBI, to Jagger taking out the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Count Crowley vol. 3: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter After saying that I was interested in checking this series out, I finally got around to reading the previous two volumes. They turned out to actually be pretty good, with the second volume even improving on the first a bit. It also left off on […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: G.O.D.S. What happens when The Powers That Be meet The Natural Order Of Things? They get a much-hyped lead-in across multiple titles from an A-List creative team whose series only lasts eight issues before it gets canned. “G.O.D.S.” represented writer Jonathan Hickman’s efforts to redefine the magical corner of the Marvel Universe and […]
Vol. 16 left off with Nene and Niko descending into the mindspace shared by Clarion and Phobos after their battle shifted from the physical plane to cyberspace. We don’t catch up with them right away as we’ve also got to check in with Robert as he tells us about his situation in a big ol’ […]
This series had a pretty good run last year, so it’s a little disappointing to see it fumble the epilogue of the previous arc. The basics are there in that we find out what happened to Mob, his friends, and the members of Claw after the story’s explosive climax, but it all flows awkwardly together. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rock Candy Mountain Complete This series passed me right by when it came out because its creator wasn’t on my radar at all. Seven years later and I now look forward to whatever writer/artist Kyle Starks does next. Looking at the solicitation for this collection of the entire eight-issue series, it’s clear that […]