Manga and Comic Reviews
Who is Hajime “Hellmaster” Damemaru? That’s the question Shimada Death wants to answer in this volume. So she pursues the only rational course of action to find out: Hooking up his shadow-ified body to the brain of an ancient decaying organism in Darknest in the hopes of getting a look inside. Shimada and Zaha do […]
She may be one of the greatest mages of the modern age, but Frieren will never be a First-Class Mage by the Continental Magic Association’s (read: Serie’s) standards. So it’s a good thing that Fern has what it takes, along with no lasting enmity between her and her judge. She’s not alone in passing the […]
Why yes, it has been a while since we’ve checked in with this series. Consider this the start of a digital manga catch-up week around here. You’d think that I’d have wanted to follow-up on the adventures of Kafka Hibino sooner, what with vol. 4 leaving off with him having to prove that he’s still […]
Mob meets and rescues the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of this volume. That may sound like a big thing, but it’s a minor footnote compared to what happens next. While that immediately involves the title character learning the tragic backstory and taking on Serizawa, the last of the Ultimate 5, the real […]
With the Mignolaverse having transitioned over to hardcovers for its collected editions, I realize that not every title justifies that treatment or cover price. That said, if one that’s written entirely by Mike Mignola and illustrated partly by him, but mostly by Ben Stenbeck, can’t justify the format, then what can? That’s the case we […]
The father-and-son duo of Nocturnus and Galahad were once the pride of St. Barrington. Fighting against the many villains who inhabited the city, they gave hope to a terrorized populace. This was the case until Galahad got fed up with his father’s controlling nature and revealed their identities on national TV. From there, the son […]
Jerri Bartman has not been having a good time of late. First she came back home after her co-anchor gig at a Cleveland news station went bad. Then the local news reporting job her brother got her at their hometown news station goes up in flames after she makes a spectacle of herself exposing shenanigans […]
Why “Hulk Planet?” Because it’s a planet inhabited by Hulks. Or rather, the castoffs created by the alternate universe Bruce Banner from the first volume of the series. Their growth was accelerated by the Banner we know after he harnessed all of the Gamma from the climax of that arc and shunted it there. The […]
I don’t want to compare my interest in this series to the grip that Seiichi’s mom has on him, but it’s really starting to feel similar. Even ten years on, our protagonist still can’t take control of his own life without facing the specter of his mother. As for me, while I can’t quite say […]
Morrie “Muddy” Davis has just put down his pencil. After sixty years of drawing the “Junkyard Joe” comic strip, about some army grunts and a robot eternally going through basic training, he’s finally retired. While the thought of a robot going through basic training may seem like a fantastic sci-fi concept, it’s based on something […]