Manga and Comic Reviews
In issue #75 of “The Walking Dead,” Robert Kirkman made good on a promise to a letter-writer he answered in issue #2 of the series. That’s when he promised… ALIENS! Which is why issue #75 featured an out-of-continuity backup story illustrated by “Invincible” artist Ryan Ottley where Rick Grimes woke up in a sci-fi version […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Monstress vol. 7: Devourer Am I excited for this volume? You damn well better believe it! Writer Marjorie Liu and artist Sana Takeda have created a beautiful, intricate, well-thought-out fantasy epic with memorable characters and a story that continues to surprise me with where it goes. My admiration of this series was re-ignited […]
Vol. 4 ended with Asa flying off with researcher Keiichi to confront the monster as it prepares to make landfall in Enoshima. You’d think that would be enough action to base an entire volume’s story around, but mangaka Naoki Urasawa has other plans. As Asa tries to improvise a solution to the crisis at hand, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Berserk vol. 41 Kentaro Miura passed away in May of last year, leaving his epic manga series unfinished. There was still enough material for one final volume and we’ll be getting that in November (it’s advance-solicited here). Though there will be no resolution to the ongoing saga of Guts vs. Griffith, what I’ve […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Catwoman: Lonely City It’s been ten years since “Fools Night” in Gotham City. That was the night that claimed the lives of Batman, The Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Nightwing. Not Catwoman, though, she just got sent to prison. Now she’s finally out and Gotham City is a much safer and less crazy place […]
Riko Kozakura is currently living her best life. Every day she goes straight home from work without putting in any overtime because she’s got plans. Plans to get in as much gaming as she possibly can before she has to go to bed and repeat the cycle the next day. It looked like this was […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: Visions #1 This is an odd round of solicitations because a lot of comics from the previous batch wound up getting delayed and are re-solicited here. Among the actually-new comics being solicited here is this one-shot based on the “Star Wars: Visions” animation anthology. Surprisingly, this story based on “The Duel” […]
Written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Andy Kubert, “Batman: The Detective” has a very high-profile creative team for a miniseries that doesn’t have any direct connection to the current goings-on in the “Batman” books or wider DC Universe. That raises expectations a bit since you figure the story they’re telling has to be special […]
You know how I said the podcast was going to be up either tonight or Saturday? Logistics reared their head again and it’ll be up on Wednesday. All I can say about that is… HALLOWEEN! If you think about it, the “Reckless” series has been building up to this point. As she’s become a bigger […]
No podcast… yet. There were some unavoidable logistics problems over the weekend and John, Steve, and I haven’t been able to connect yet. We’re looking to record either Friday or Saturday, at which we’ll upload it once we’re done. Until then… The last time we saw Edison Hark, he was investigating a series of murders […]