Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man: Long Way Home #1 (of 5) So, you may have heard that we’re getting a new “Spider-Man” movie in July. Marvel, always chasing the synergistic movie-to-comic tie-in, is putting out this new mini-series that takes place early on in Spidey’s career. So early that the Hulk and Punisher, the other featured characters […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Detective Comics by Tom Taylor vol. 3: The Courage That Kills Fear has always been one of Batman’s greatest weapons when it comes to his never-ending war on crime. However, what if everyone in Gotham City woke up one day without the ability to feel it? Would this turn it into a modern […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sacrificers vol. 4 Pigeon had a close encounter with one of the gods that rule his world in vol. 3. One that had them becoming allies instead of adversaries. As they look to take the fight to those in charge, his sister Beatrice has reluctantly thrown in her lot with Soluna – […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Powers 25 vol. 1 Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming are regarded as one of the best creative teams in comics and “Powers” is the reason for that. A series that fused a superhero setting with the police procedural, it frequently delivered on the promise of that setup for a very long time. Then […]
Because that’s the feeling you get when you pull up to the convention and get a text letting you know that something’s come up and your friends won’t be making it this year. It certainly put a damper on things as I walked over to the convention center, but there were at least some panels […]
“Absolute Batman” is a monstrous success by any modern American superhero comics standard. The first issue has gone through eleven printings, the first collection stormed the bestseller lists, and the first issue after the ones in this volume – the origin of the Absolute Joker sold over 300,000 copies. While you’d think that supervillain origin […]
He was born and raised on Krypton, but how did he make it to Earth, and to Superman? Writer Ryan North and artist Mike Norton tell the tale of the DCU’s goodest boy in this surprisingly emotional miniseries. I say this as an avowed cat person who definitely loves reading comics about cats and bought […]
The community of Marshview seemed like the perfect place for Ivy and her friends to set up shop, with it being a formerly sunken swamp town that was magically secluded from the outside world. Too bad that it’s still haunted by the people who died there, and one still living bog monster. That’s the kind […]
Rennie Bethany is a serial killer. Unfortunately that doesn’t pay the bills on its own. So she applied to the New York Fashion and Design Institute to pursue her other calling. Though her initial plan was to keep her head down, learn what she could, and get on with her life, fate has other plans […]
Bruce Wayne has adopted Dick Grayson after the tragic death of his parents and allowed the young boy to be his sidekick as a way of working through his feelings in the wake of that tragic event. It’s not easy for either of them, though. Bruce has to adjust to looking out for someone like […]