Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Where Monsters Lie #1 (of 4) Kyle Starks may not be the most high-profile writer debuting his first Dark Horse title in these solicitations, but he has the one I’m most looking forward to reading. The writer is teaming with talented artist Piotr Kowalski for this series about what slasher-movie monsters get up […]
The hope was that Yor’s duty as a bodyguard on a cruise ship would deliver the comedy/action goods and that’s (mostly) true for this volume. Garden, the organization she works for, has been tasked with guarding the wife and son of a recently murdered head of a criminal syndicate. There’s a price on their heads […]
All Paprika wanted was to gain a little experience in the ways of romance to impress Za’atar, the big-shot movie producer who’s making the massively successful book she edited, “Spice it Up,” into a movie. The problem is that the person she decided to let help her with this, grade-A himbo delivery boy Dill, has […]
What was Ethan getting up to while his partner/friend Anna was investigating a potentially haunted house and getting stabbed for her troubles? He was up north in the San Francisco area trying to track down the missing wife of a son of some friendly neighbors who did him a solid once. While Ethan is no […]
The last time we saw Maika Halfwolf, she was even more screwed than usual! Poisoned by her lover, Tuya, who is finally making good on her directive to deliver Maika and Zinn to the Dusk Court. This is all so that the Ancients living there can extract the power that Zinn commands without having to […]
The final act of this series continues the momentum from the previous volume as Tsurumi and his men seek to escape the flaming brewery with Asirpa in tow. This results in another one of the chase scenes that this series does so well as multiple parties chase the disguised army members through the town. This […]
Soule’s attempt to make Crimson Dawn into a thing in the “Crimson Reign” miniseries left something to be desired. While not a bad idea in theory, the miniseries was hamstrung by the implication that we know it’s going to end badly for Qi’ra and her comrades, as well as a general lack of surprise in […]
The first “Hellfire Gala” was a very satisfying event. It had a unique structure where all of the currently running X-titles showed the event from their cast’s perspective, while the “Planet-Sized X-Men” one-shot provided the unifying centerpiece for the storyline. Better still was that it also provided a major change to the status quo of […]
Friday Nov 11, 2022 Gerry Duggan’s second volume of “X-Men” rolls along in much the same way as the first one did. That is to say half of the issues collected here revolve around done-in-one stories with some subplots ticking over between issues. Which is how we find out about the Secret Origin of Captain […]
Easton Newburn is a private investigator in New York who investigates the crimes that the police can’t or won’t solve. That’s not exactly hyperbole as his clientele almost exclusively consists of members from the major crime families of the city. So what do they do when an ex-member of the Italian Mafia steals ten kilos […]