Oinokami High’s hockey team is about to play their first game!  It’s in Sapporo against Sekka High School which is notorious for all of the white-tracksuited delinquents that attend it.  Before they get there, however, the team will have to deal with more training from their eccentric coach, angsting about what their future will bring, […]

Slade Slaymaker loves bugs just like his dad did.  This is in spite of the fact that his dad died because of them and set his brother Syd against them as a result.  Now he, his brother, and mother have moved into their dad’s old house and are trying to get it back in shape.  […]

You know how the story goes:  A kindly couple in the midwest finds a baby with powers in a strange capsule that crashed on Earth and raises him according to their values.  Cut to 50 years later and now the world has become a religious fascism with those who unquestioningly believe in its leader living […]

Longtime readers will know that I’ve become choosy about what Mignolaverse stories I pick up these days.  With the majority of them coming out in $25 hardcovers with slim page counts, it feels like a dicier proposition to pick up every one that comes out in the hopes that it’ll deliver the kind of winning […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Mortal Thor vol. 1:  No Gods, No Masters On one hand, it’s a little disheartening to see Marvel relaunch an ongoing run with a new #1 as it implies that what was going on before wasn’t quite working and that it really needed a sales boost.  On the other, I appreciate that […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Escape Another round of solicits, another new Rick Remender-written collection to talk about.  This one is notable for a couple reasons, and the fact that it’s a war story featuring talking animals actually isn’t one of them.  Milton Shaw is a bomber pilot who gets shot down behind enemy lines just as his […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: JLA Book Three Third in the series of reprints of the “Justice League” series that began with Grant Morrison’s “JLA” run.  While I bought that series in collected form as new volumes were released, this collection is a bit different.  That’s because it collects the “DC One Million” event miniseries that Morrison co-wrote […]

When Straczynski started writing for Marvel Comics it was a Big Deal.  He was a TV guy best known as the creator of “Babylon 5” who had recently broken into comics with the well-liked and best-selling “Midnight Nation” and “Rising Stars.”  Since then, he’s done a lot for the publisher with a lot of ups […]

After the Battle of Crait, Kylo Ren would appear to be a man who has it all.  He’s defeated his former mentor, put the Resistance on the run, and is now the new Supreme Leader of the First Order.  Yet he feels no satisfaction from any of these things.  All he can feel is the […]

T’Challa delivered a pretty decisive victory over Khonshu and Ra at the end of the previous volume.  Almost decisive enough to take them off the board for good, had it not been for the last-minute intervention of Inan, the Sorcerer Supreme.  As thanks to Killmonger for saving her life, she tells T’Challa about the nature […]