Manga and Comic Reviews
Writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner, with Tone Rodriguez on layouts, scored a major hit with “Stray Dogs” a couple years back and now they’re back with a cat-focused follow-up. It’s about one family’s three cats – Elsie, Patch, and Lord Fluffy Britches – as they find themselves in the middle of a highly […]
It’s just another evening for Lois and Clark when the latter’s beeper goes off and he goes to help out the Justice League deal with an interstellar object that has crashed in the ocean off of Luzon Island. So far, so standard. Except that when Lois wakes up that night upon her husband’s return, he’s… […]
Blockbuster is dead, and with him organized crime in Bludhaven has lost its head. Which means that there’s going to be a lot of crooks making their plays to either take his place or take advantage of the chaos. Fortunately Nightwing is not only up to the task of tackling this chaos, but he’s got […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus vol. 6 “Wait a second,” I hear you say, “Didn’t he already put this omnibus in this spot back in the May 2024 round of solicitations?” Yes. Yes I did. I also wrote there that my biggest concern was whether or not that omnibus vol. 6 […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Strikeforce: Morituri Omnibus HC The Earth is under attack from a race of brutal aliens called the Horde, and humanity is losing. Fortunately our scientists have come up with the Morituri Process which confers superpowers on individuals who are compatible with it. The catch? If it works, not only do people get superpowers, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Penguin vol. 2: All Bad Things Oswald Cobblepot was ready to enjoy life as a normal guy away from all of the chaos in Gotham. Then he was press-ganged by a zealous federal agent into taking back his criminal empire from his kids. Now, with the assistance of the crew he put […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Power Fantasy vol. 1 I know I’ve given enough of these spots to comics written by Kieron Gillen, so what’s one more! This is a comic about superpowered individuals, though the definition of that isn’t probably what you’d expect. “Superpowered” in this series means that an individual has the destructive capability of […]
Sin is in danger. No, not the concept of sin, and definitely not the Marvel Comics character with that name. This is Cynthia “Sin” Lance, sister to Dinah “Black Canary” Lance we’re talking about. She’s been kidnapped by the Amazons for reasons unknown and Dinah is going to have to assemble a team to get […]
Jonathan Hickman’s time at Marvel has been, to put it mildly, remarkably successful. “Secret Warriors” overcame a middling first volume to turn into a compelling superhero spy caper, and one of the best Nick Fury stories in decades. His “Fantastic Four” run was a showcase for the man’s penchant for big idea storytelling that never […]
Some thugs are making trouble down at the Gotham docks and Batman is on hand to take them down. It sounds like just another night in the city, but something feels off for the title character. No, it’s not how one of the thugs mutates into a horrific monster before his eyes. Or the sudden […]