Manga and Comic Reviews
Who was Martha before she was the elite retainer to the Blackbell family? A soldier for Ostania who fought in the last war against Westalis. There she saw firsthand the horrors of armed conflict and only escaped with her life through a combination of luck and the kindness of strangers. Though her return home was […]
Land and Ubel may be First Class Mages, but they’ve been tasked with doing some regular old spycraft in order to get information on an assassination plot to take out the leader of the Continental Mage Association’s leader, Serie. That doesn’t mean they won’t have to rely on their magic-using skills, especially once the Empire’s […]
It was one thing for Asa to get involved in the shenanigans relating to her friend Yone’s movie, but doing so managed to have her encounter the man who wrote her favorite song, River Etheridge. While she’s elated to find this out, Asa soon learns that he’s a deserter from the American forces currently fighting […]
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 […]
I think we were all right to suspect otherwise at first, but it turns out that young Lucy Steel actually does love her older husband, and organizer of the Steel Ball Run Race, Steven. Why else would she try to break into a federal building in order to find out what the President of the […]
Mujina may not have rights, but that’s not going to stop the police from looking into them. That’s where Special Safety members, easygoing veteran Kashio and straightlaced newbie Lin, come in as they’ve been tasked with tracking down some very sensitive information that’s connected to Ubume’s former boyfriend Nozuchi. You know, the guy she killed […]
In vol. 1, Mizuki Aikawa told the story of how she killed her friend Mako Igarashi’s uncle after he tried to assault her, and then killed and dismembered Mako over what appeared to be a jealous spat over a boy. Is that what actually happened? Vol. 2 shifts the perspective to the murdered girl as […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Koshchei the Deathless Omnibus Collecting the “Koshchei the Deathless,” “Koshchei in Hell,” “The Serpent in the Garden: Ed Grey and the Last Battle for England” miniseries, and the “Edward Grey: Acheron” one-shot, this collection is as much about the title character as it is the former Witchfinder. I also imagine that this is […]
While it looked like Diego Brando’s big secret was revealed in the previous volume, that turns out not to be the case here. His transformative ability is actually the result of another individual’s Stand who reveals themself as someone who’s also in on the hunt for the parts of the dead saint’s body. He’s not […]
Nomiya, Takahashi, and Kiyohara continue to plug away at life in this volume. Nomiya is more determined than ever to become a pro basketball player, but his skills still need major polishing. Fortunately he’s got plenty of friends to help him out. Takahashi is getting ready to leave the rehab facility and has a place […]