Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Step by Bloody Step There is a girl with no name and no memory. She’s walking through a fantasy world plagued by the terrors of the wilderness and civilization. Except that she’s not alone. She’s accompanied by an armored giant who’s protecting her from any and all threats. Why is the giant doing […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men: Red by Al Ewing vol. 1 I know that I put the first two issues of this series here back in January, but my excitement for this series has only grown since then. That’s mainly due to the fact that I finally got around to reading vol. 2 of “S.W.O.R.D.” in the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! vol. 4 Editor Carl Horn mentioned that Dark Horse had licensed vols. 4 & 5 of this series in the afterword to vol. 3. So while it’s not surprising to see this volume here, it’s still very reassuring. (On that note, there’s a Dark Horse Manga panel at […]
When creators Christopher Cantwell and Martin Morazzo left Luna Brewster post-surgery at the end of vol. 2, it felt like it could work as an ending for the series. The assumption being that her mental issues would get better as she recovered and was surrounded by family. We find out that was not the case […]
It was only a matter of time after completing the “Mage” trilogy. Matt Wagner has now returned to his other defining series, “Grendel.” What started off as a story of how evil and madness perpetuate through blood and generations evolved into a story of how the representation of these ideas came to dominate mankind in […]
Jenny Tetsuo used to enjoy following in the footsteps of her father. Mega Commander Zero was the pride of the Action Science Police, the world’s foremost specialists on fighting the kaiju threat which continues to the present day. Then things went bad, she washed out of the force, and now spends her days getting loaded […]
When Jonathan Hickman had Nightcrawler hit upon the idea of establishing a mutant religion, Si Spurrier seemed like the right writer to follow up on it. After all, he’s a writer who has thrived on finding unexpected stories to tell utilizing the characters owned by the Big Two. In a move that is both surprising […]
In the future, there will be robots. We’ll also have ceded all control over our lives to them, to the point where humans will no longer be needed to work (except as hairdressers) and they’ll have to rely on their assigned robot guardian to act as their breadwinner. That’s the situation the Walters family has […]
“Usagi Yojimbo” has been around for over thirty years now. You’d think that at this point the character’s backstory would be pretty well filled in and that creator Stan Sakai wouldn’t feel the need to add anything more to it. If there’s one thing that binds all of the stories in this collection together, it’s […]
Sam Sugar is a former dirty intergalactic cop. That “former” only applies to the cop part, as he’s still plenty dirty, doing odd jobs for the superbeing known as the Eternal Empress. His latest involves tracking down her husband, the Storm King’s, most famous illegitimate offspring: Intergalactic pop star Zephyr Monsoon. Why? Because Zephyr has […]