Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel’s Most Villainous: Magneto In case you hadn’t heard, Dark Horse is getting into the Marvel reprint business with themed and prestige collections coming your way. “Marvel’s Mightiest Monsters” is also in these solicitations and you can look forward to a black and white collection of Barry Windsor-Smith’s “Weapon X” next time. While […]
Two friggin’ years! That’s how long we’ve had to wait for this volume. Not that we needed to as this volume originally came out back in 2024 in Japan. However, because I can only assume that “Wave” doesn’t do top-tier numbers for publisher Kodansha, it took that extra year for vol. 11 to arrive out […]
He’s under the tutelage of Jin “The Cat Whisperer” Nekoya. He has his own cat, Tiger. He’s even got a part-time job at a cat cafe. What’s left for Kensuke to experience in terms of expressing his love for cats? Why, starting a cat club at his school, of course. He’ll need at least three […]
It’s been over two decades since a manga from Kaiji Kawaguchi was published in America. I’m bringing this up because that manga was the excellent “Eagle: The Making of an Asian American President.” Even if its depiction of American politics of the time comes off as quaint in relation to our current political hellscape, it […]
Gilbert and Mr. Kohinata are back from their honeymoon in Spain with stories of great food and lost luggage to regale Kenji and Shiro over dinner. This isn’t the only dinner date in this volume as our protagonists also have one with their neighbors the Tominagas where they try to guess what the husband did […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition First off, don’t ever be a researcher into ancient cultures or lore in a Lovecraft story. If you do happen to be one, just do your research from the safe and hallowed halls of academia. Don’t do any fieldwork. If you do go out into the […]
I had a feeling this was going to be a tough year for me when I looked at the panel list and saw a lot of potentially interesting panels. From presentations by established regulars, to unions in videogames, to cosplay wrestling, to games that mess with you, to that one industry panel I always attend, […]
Saku has had a hard life, and not just because she’s an orphan. This Japanese girl has always had a tendency to get involved in fights, and to nearly beat the people involved in them senseless. It’s not that she goes out looking for trouble, but because she’s possessed by the spirit of an antagonistic […]
This series hasn’t just been popular enough to spawn multiple anime adaptations, but spinoff manga series as well. While I’m sure that they were all done with mangaka Kore Yamazaki’s approval, I’ve never felt that Japan’s quality control on these things is really any better than America’s. So I’ve been skipping them and I was […]
It’s time for the members of Oinokami’s hockey team to face their first real match! Coach Nihei has set them up to play against Sekka High in what you’d think would be a relatively normal game to ease these kids onto the ice. Except that Sekka is filled with hardcore delinquents and they make it […]