Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Black Cloak vol. 1 “Heart in a Box” was an excellent graphic novel that took an obvious premise – a young woman gives up her heart to escape a recent heartbreak and comes to regret the decision – and wrung a genuinely engaging story from it. It came to us courtesy of writer […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus HC vol. 1 Now here’s something I never thought I’d see in these solicitations. To recap: Rom was originally a toy made by Parker Brothers that Marvel published a tie-in comic for back in the (very) late 70’s/early 80’s. While the toy came and went without much […]
The ongoing narrative of this series kicked into high gear at the end of the previous volume and that momentum carries through the entirety of vol. 17. While Philomena’s awakened form isn’t able to cause (much) more damage at the college, she still manages to slip outside the wards guarding the place. Where is she […]
Donny Cates’ ambitions at Marvel may be on hold for now, but he and his “Venom” partner Ryan Stegman are delivering a new creator-owned title from Image. “Vanish” is a series that takes a lot of stylistic cues in its art from the publisher’s early 90’s era. Given how Image titles from that time were […]
The good news is that this title will be continuing past this volume. Much as I’ve enjoyed Ewing’s work in the cosmic and mutant spaces at Marvel, they haven’t been blessed with sales worthy of their quality. Whether or not “X-Men: Red” will be continuing past the “Fall of X” is another big question mark […]
At the end of vol. 3, the cast had been split up into three parts. Vol. 4 starts off with Daniel and Alex “Destiny Man” Graves off to the side, getting to know the latter’s backstory. It mainly consists of “My parents didn’t love me enough so betrayed them and got into genetic engineering in […]
It’s the end of an era as this marks the last proper volume of “Usagi Yojimbo” (not counting the upcoming “Wherewhen” crossover with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) to be published by IDW. Creator Stan Sakai now has his own “Dogu Comics” imprint at Dark Horse so it’s a very safe bet that all future […]
This volume hits the ground running as Asirpa is still in Major Tsurumi’s hands just after she’s given him her father’s name. Which is a key piece of information about how to interpret the map made by the tattooed skins that have been the focus of this series for so long. Then the bullets start […]
It was inevitable that Jon Kent was going to get his own solo title at some point. He’s the Son of Superman, after all. It’s a role that’s too high-profile not to have one. The real question was whether or not that series or miniseries was going to be any good. With a creative team […]
Again, there’s a pretty good chance you already know if this is going to be worth your time. If you were one of the few who came out of vol. 1 on the fence, however, then know this: Shirtless Bear-Fighter is still fighting bears! To an unhealthy extent, even. Which means that it’s not long […]