Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman vol. 2: The Paper Yeah, this feels too easy. There’s some other stuff I was considering for this spot – first volumes of relaunched X-titles, the climax of Ewing’s “Venom” – but when it came down to it, this is the one I wanted to read the most. […]
The Feng-Shui duel between F.F. and Drake’s Dream wraps up in the opening chapters of this volume, and not a moment too soon. This allows the narrative to move on to weirder fights that actually promise to drive the story forward. Such as an infection that starts sweeping through the Disciplinary Wing and turning everyone […]
How is Franklin Richards handling being a normal kid these days? Better than you’d think because he’s not actually any less normal than this future shaper of worlds used to be. He just hides it better these days so that he can keep being a kid while also keeping an eye out for potential world-ending […]
Lori’s found herself a new foster home and her new parents are promising to get her a cat. Sounds great, right? Well, Lori has been through this kind of thing enough to know that the promise of a cat usually doesn’t pan out – and that’s before she wakes up one morning to find out […]
“Usagi” is back at Dark Horse and all is right with the world. I exaggerate as the Rabbit Ronin’s adventures at IDW were unchanged in style and quality from when they were at his previous publisher. That being said, creator Stan Sakai has decided to ring in “Usagi’s” return at Dark Horse in a big […]
The “Tokyo Blade” 2.5D Stage Play is still in full swing, and now it’s time for Aqua and Kana’s big moments. Well, “big” in theory as Kana’s current mindset has her pulling back to support her co-stars so they can shine brighter than her. Meanwhile, Aqua, for all of his technical skill, still doesn’t actually […]
Vol. 2 of this series decided to take a more difficult path as it traced the struggles of multiple characters doing a lot of different things, rather than the focused group activity of the Academy kids in vol. 1. That’s what it looks like vol. 3 will be doing as it picks up again with […]
I mentioned very recently that the penultimate volume of Greg Pak’s run on “Darth Vader” did a really good job of building up to its climax. Moreso than in this title, even. That’s mainly because Soule isn’t doing any buildup here. Vol. 8 IS the climax of his run. After seven volumes, it has finally […]
He’s survived the menace of the “Dark Droids,” but can the Dark Lord of the Sith triumph over the Schism Imperial? They’re a coalition of officers who have run afoul of Vader over the course of Pak’s run, led by the newly-promoted Administrator Moore, and they believe that the Emperor is unsuited to rule the […]
Almost 200 years ago Don Diego De La Vega saved the people of his town from Spanish tyranny and began the legend of Zorro in the process. The townspeople of La Vega still remember what he did and still honor his memory after all this time. At least, they did until the cartel lord El […]