Manga and Comic Reviews
Not to be confused with the previous “X-Men: Red” series, which was an 11-issue run written by Tom Taylor from the team’s color-coded era a few years back. This “X-Men: Red” series is about Planet Arakko, or The Planet Formerly Known as Mars in the Marvel Universe and the difficulty its new regent, Storm, faces […]
The previous volume showed us that this new “Venom” series is actually going to be two different stories in one title. You’ve got Dylan and the Venom symbiote’s adventures in the present day written by Ram V, and Eddie Brock’s adventures through the timestream from Al Ewing. It’s not a bad approach as both stories […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Oh My Goddess! Omnibus vol. 7 This series had the distinction of being Dark Horse’s longest-published manga series up until October 2017 when the sixth omnibus came out. When no subsequent omnibus was solicited in the months afterward, I had assumed that the fanbase for Kosuke Fujishima’s “Oh My Goddess!” had well and […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Guardians of the Galaxy by Al Ewing You’d think that getting the now A-List writer of “Immortal Hulk” and a hot rising star artist to tackle Marvel’s premier cosmic team would’ve a lengthy run for this incarnation of their series. Despite writer Al Ewing and artist Juann Cabal’s (and friends’) best efforts, the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Night Fever HC On one hand, it’s a new OGN from the team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. On the other, it’s the story of a man on a business trip to Europe who finds himself being guided into the hidden world of the night. A place, we’re told, that is “without […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman: Lost #1 (of 10) 2023 is the 85th Anniversary of the first appearance of Superman, and DC has decided that the best way to showcase this is… to have the character deal with a massive case of PTSD. No, wait, hear me out. This new maxiseries from writer Christopher Priest and artist […]
The run of writer Peter Milligan and artist Michael Allred on “X-Force” and later “X-Statix” is something that shouldn’t have worked as well as it did. Taking a hard swerve from the paramilitary mutant action of the former title and turning it into a satire of early 00’s celebrity should’ve been a huge turn-off to […]
Sonny is a former insurance investigator who came across an assassination contract on the Dark Web for the murder of a young boy, Xavier, and his mother. Due to his intervention, only Xavier’s mom wound up dying and now he and the boy are living off the grid in a commune in rural British Columbia. […]
Where the volumes of “Star Wars” and “Darth Vader” that bore the “Crimson Reign” subtitle had only nominal ties to the organization and its ongoing storyline, “Doctor Aphra’s” are a bit more substantial. In part because this volume’s main storyline involves the Ascendant, the Force-worshipping cult who created the thought dowser seen in the previous […]
Edward M. Pressler is the supervillain known as EMP. His claim to fame is that he blacked out Gotham City five years ago with an electromagnetic blast he generated from within his own body. EMP spent the next five years in a sensory deprivation tank at Arkham Asylum, until tonight when the order was given […]