Manga and Comic Reviews
When Jonathan Hickman had Nightcrawler hit upon the idea of establishing a mutant religion, Si Spurrier seemed like the right writer to follow up on it. After all, he’s a writer who has thrived on finding unexpected stories to tell utilizing the characters owned by the Big Two. In a move that is both surprising […]
This volume starts off with a couple of stories that are as good as anything we’ve seen in this series to date. The first tale involves our protagonists finally coming to Sissel’s – the Lunatic Sorcerer – home and having to deal with its guardian. They may think it’s easy to deal with, until they […]
In the future, there will be robots. We’ll also have ceded all control over our lives to them, to the point where humans will no longer be needed to work (except as hairdressers) and they’ll have to rely on their assigned robot guardian to act as their breadwinner. That’s the situation the Walters family has […]
“Usagi Yojimbo” has been around for over thirty years now. You’d think that at this point the character’s backstory would be pretty well filled in and that creator Stan Sakai wouldn’t feel the need to add anything more to it. If there’s one thing that binds all of the stories in this collection together, it’s […]
Sam Sugar is a former dirty intergalactic cop. That “former” only applies to the cop part, as he’s still plenty dirty, doing odd jobs for the superbeing known as the Eternal Empress. His latest involves tracking down her husband, the Storm King’s, most famous illegitimate offspring: Intergalactic pop star Zephyr Monsoon. Why? Because Zephyr has […]
Hmmmm…. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to talk about how the previous volume ended, yet. By that extension, the events of this volume are best left for the reader to experience for themselves. That’s because, if you remember when Steve and I talked about Tatsuki Fujimoto’s previous series “Fire Punch,” you’ll recall […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ghost Cage What do you do if you’re a brilliant scientist who revolutionized energy generation, who now controls all of it on Earth, and whose headquarters have now come under attack from terrorist looking to take it all from him? You send out your ultimate peacekeeping solution to take out these terrorists as […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Joker Presents: A Puzzlebox HC The Riddler is dead and only one person knows the truth behind his death. Unfortunately for Commissioner Gordon and the rest of the GCPD, that person is the least reliable witness possible. So it’s up to them to figure out what truths (if any) the Joker has […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants #1 (of 3) Yes, this event tie-in miniseries is here mainly on the strength of its title alone. It’s also being written by event maestro Kieron Gillen with art from Guiu Villanova, so it’s likely to actually be a good read as well. Though the title seems pretty […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Air vol. 1 Usually the way it works is that when a creator hits the big time, such as how G. Willow Wilson did with “Ms. Marvel,” there’s a rush to reprint their earlier work to capitalize on their status as the new hotness. That didn’t happen in Wilson’s case as the four-volume […]