The good news is that creator Stan Sakai isn’t trying to retcon any more backstory into Usagi’s early years with this volume.  It’s all about introducing the title character’s cousin, Yukichi, to some familiar adventures with familiar friends here.  Starting off with Kitsune and Keiko who have managed to steal a ledger from a local […]

The most compelling moral quandary this series has presented to us is making the architects of its dystopia, the Carlyle Family, the ostensible “good guys” in the story.  We’ve seen how other families, Vassalovka and especially Hock, have resorted to underhanded means to keep their people in line.  Carlyle is doing the same with a […]

My guess is that we have the “Obi-Wan” limited series on Disney+ from last year to thank for this miniseries.  It’s hard to imagine Marvel pushing a miniseries featuring the character as he reminisces on his past adventures from his latter-day home on Tatooine for any other reason.  So we get stories of the time […]

If anything, I’m surprised it has taken this long for Marvel to do an ongoing series featuring Han Solo.  “Ongoing” may be a bit misleading as “Han Solo & Chewbacca” appears to have been retroactively labeled as a miniseries after finishing its ten-issue story.  It takes place not too long before the events of “Episode […]

I’ll freely admit that I ordered this graphic novel expecting an enjoyable hatereading experience.   I mean, look at that title “Too Dead to Die.”  It’s ridiculous on its face and there’s no hint that writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Howard Chaykin weren’t going to play this tongue-in-cheek.  Not in the solicitation text for this […]

Satomi Sone made her debut as Radiant Red in the pages of “Radiant Black’s” first arc using her powers to rob banks.  She put the title’s protagonist into a coma during one of these robberies and while it would’ve been easy to see her as a villain due to this, the spotlight issue at the […]

Vol. 4 left off with a goddamn dragon emerging out of the ruins of the temple of the Flaming Fist, controlled by the long-thought-dead Master Shaw.  They head to China and quickly establish their dominance over the country, sending a message to the rest of the world that they’re not to be trifled with.  Meanwhile, […]

Trudy and Gabby were working crap service jobs in order to barely afford a terrible apartment that didn’t even have proper heating in winter.  Then Gabby gets a letter informing her that her great aunt has died and left the woman a cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere.  Feeling like they have nothing to […]

Lancelot Jones, the smartest boy in the world, is dead.  His former partner, Friday Fitzhugh, has spent the following week in bed after finding his dead body in their burning clubhouse.  She just can’t bring herself to face the world after this… until she hears that Lancelot’s death is being ruled an accident.  Friday knows […]