Manga and Comic Reviews
For an orphan ward of the church living in 15th-Century Europe, Rafal looks like he has it made. He’s the brightest of his Father’s students and will be going away to university to study theology in the near future. So the fact that a former heretic named Hubert will be staying at his place, because […]
Demonic possession in suburbia. A restless spirit haunting a rural graveyard. A rookie agent hoping to spot his first cryptid. Assaults from a possessed tiger in India. Reports about a haunted sawmill in Oregon. A seance to contact the spirit of a devil-worshipper. These are the things that Hellboy, his father Trevor Bruttenholm, and various […]
“I, Vampire” Andrew Bennett has braved the sunlight to bring an urgent message to the Justice League. That message being that vampires are coming out of the shadows to take over the world, and they’ve started with the Injustice League. Now the DCU faces a crisis without Lex Luthor, but with all of his fellow […]
One of the reasons the “Best of 2023” podcast took so long to arrive this year was because of this graphic novel. It took a while to make its way to me from the source that I ordered it from and I didn’t want to start on the list until I had time to read […]
Midori Fukada, Ernie Comstock, and Xander Waterford all have one thing in common: They’re in actual, literal HELL right now. Whether or not they belong there depends on who you ask, but they’re trying to make the best of their current situation. Which involves robbing one of the biggest, baddest demon lords for one of […]
We got our first look at Seiichi’s post-juvenile incarceration/adult life in the previous volume and it was every bit the feel-bad experience you’d expect it to be. Not content with saddling his protagonist with depression and a suicidal mindset, mangaka Shuzo Oshimi also had him reunite with his mother there as well. Only, she’s not […]
Sprout grew up far from prying eyes alongside her grandfather, a doomsday prepper who saw too many bad things in the Vietnam War and has been living with them ever since. When the people responsible for one of those bad things decides to take him out, she follows them to New York for vengeance. While […]
It was just another night at the Lower Lair, a supervillain bar in Twilight City’s run-down Redport district, when word broke that Kid Dusk had been murdered. Not only was he the sidekick to one of the city’s most prominent superheroes, The Insomniac, but he was also done in by that hero’s nemesis, Stickman. Now […]
It’s been Shauna Wickle’s dream to get on the United Kingdom’s premier baking show “UK Bakery Tent” and it nearly evaporates like a poorly-thought-out reduction on her very first day. That’s when one of the contestants, arrogant meteorologist Neal, is poisoned by an unknown party. As producers debate whether to call this whole season off, […]
I originally meant to have this up to follow my review of “Immortal X-Men” vol. 3… but it just slipped my mind the following week. Much as I’d like to say that’s not a mark against the overall quality of this one-shot, written by Gerry Duggan and illustrated by ten talented artists, it kind of […]