Manga and Comic Reviews
Another volume, another chapter in the ongoing war against the Monster Society. You could say that this storyline has been going on long enough to make it feel interminable, or just admit that this is “One-Punch Man” now. To that end, there are a lot of little narrative beats that do a good job of […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Operation Sunshine #1 Being a vampire can suck. For a small group of young bloodsuckers, it sucks so much that they’ve been trying to find a way to make themselves human again. They think they’ve found a way to do it, too. All they have to do is steal a magical object from […]
I said last time that I was ready for some actual movement on the conflict between the Nanyang Alliance and the Federation after the last few volumes of ping-ponging setup between both sides. Vol. 19 has this to offer instead: More setup! While I should complain about it, what we get here is actually quite […]
I wasn’t expecting to attend Comic-Con this year. The time away from it as a result of the pandemic had broken me of the habit of going and I was content to let it remain that way. Unless the convention offered me a compelling enough reason to attend. Which it did — something observant and […]
There’s still plenty of insanity to be had in this series as “Golden Wind” heads into its home stretch. Not only do we see how Doppio manages to outwit the assassin Risotto, but he even manages to get close enough to Bucciarati at just the right time to slip under his guard. Giorno also gets […]
Now that the great reading mix-up of 2023 is over with, we can get back to normal service with this series. At least in terms of reading order. As implied at the end of vol. 12, vol. 13 begins with a twenty-year time jump all the way to 2017. That’s where we’re introduced to Seiichi’s […]
I was expecting the upward trend in quality represented by the stories presented in the first volume to continue here. The idea is that Fujimoto was getting better with each new manga he made, right? “22-26” shows that wasn’t quite the case and the quality of a creator’s work doesn’t follow a straight line. However, […]
This is a volume of table-setting as we see lots of different factions getting their affairs in order before the fighting starts. We check in with Duke Guiscard first as he delights in having found a way to get rid of his brother, the king: Have the newly captured Princess Irina do it as she […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Innocent Omnibus vol. 1 What we have here is something much rarer than I’d like it to be in solicitations from Dark Horse. That would be the debut of a new manga series without any ties to film or TV. “Innocent” is the fictionalized story of Charles-Henri Sanson the executioner for the French […]
The ongoing narrative of this series kicked into high gear at the end of the previous volume and that momentum carries through the entirety of vol. 17. While Philomena’s awakened form isn’t able to cause (much) more damage at the college, she still manages to slip outside the wards guarding the place. Where is she […]