Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Invincible Universe: Battle Beast vol. 1 Mark Grayson’s story may be done and over with, but the universe of “Invincible” has plenty of other colorful characters ready to have their backstories explored. Particularly in the wake of the massively successful animated series it inspired. You could argue that writer Robert Kirkman and artist […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Absolute Green Lantern vol. 1: Without Fear Al Ewing did some really great work in the cosmic corner of the Marvel Universe on “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “S.W.O.R.D.” that, unfortunately, didn’t make a dent in the market. The hope is that working with a blank slate in the Absolute Universe on its […]
I approached Saturday at the con the same as I have for Comic-Cons in the past few years: Get up. Drive down to San Diego. (Get my badge.) Attend panels. Leave and meet Steve for dinner. Then drive back home. It’s a setup that has yielded good times in years past and I was expecting […]
Dr. Frederick Wertham is infamous among comics fans for his lifelong crusade against the evils of comic books. The doctor was convinced that the violent and lurid tales from crime and horror comics directly contributed to delinquency in children and wanted to see them stamped out. This led to the creation of the Comics Code […]
Tariq Geiger, his two-headed dog Barry, and Nate the Nuclear Knight continue their trek across the wasteland, only now they’ve got a destination. They’re headed to Lewistown to find a man named Ash Arden who apparently had the same kind of radioactive affliction as Geiger, but was able to cure it. But why would he […]
It’s a day that starts like any other for the title character: She wakes up in the bed of a one-night stand, smokes a cigarette, and then deals with Batman – who’s standing right there – regarding the superhero problem he’s brought her. You see, years ago Jenny made a deal with the Dark Knight […]
The last time we saw Alana, Hazel, and Squire, they were barely making ends meet on a planet full of poor refugees. Now they’re living the (relatively) better life as employees in a third-rate space circus! Flop-sweat spouting MCs. Show dolphins with explosive diarrhea. Angry clowns who will sell you out for a buck. Carnies […]
Pigeon has the power to change the world, but will he be able to wield it in a way that will allow him to do so? The answer to that question remains to be seen even as he sets his sights on a goal that’s much easier to attain: Revenge on the Foreman for sacrificing […]
The man known only as Rook came to the planet Exodus, bought and colonized by the Better-World corporation, looking for a new life after his farm on Earth burned down. Now he’s looking for a way off the planet after the World Engine terraformer failed, leaving it to slowly return to its barren state. He […]
Who are the Children of the Atom? They’re a cult led by a man calling himself the Maester who believe that they’re the next step in evolution thanks to their leader’s experiments on them. In actuality, the Maester is trying to produce mutants for Emperor Sunfire and his enforcer, Viper, is breathing down the head […]