Manga and Comic Reviews
The battle with Keiji Mogami is all but over, except for the cracking of Mob’s psychic shell to see the ultimate power that lurks inside. I’m sure mangaka ONE will be back to show us the implications of this later on, but the focus for this volume is on the relationship between Mob and his […]
The kaiju decided to take the fight to humanity in a big way at the end of vol. 3. Not content to simply attack humanity in its cities, they decided to take on the defense force at the home of its third division. Unfortunately for the kaiju, that isn’t just the place where protagonist Kafka […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Where Monsters Lie #1 (of 4) Kyle Starks may not be the most high-profile writer debuting his first Dark Horse title in these solicitations, but he has the one I’m most looking forward to reading. The writer is teaming with talented artist Piotr Kowalski for this series about what slasher-movie monsters get up […]
The hope was that Yor’s duty as a bodyguard on a cruise ship would deliver the comedy/action goods and that’s (mostly) true for this volume. Garden, the organization she works for, has been tasked with guarding the wife and son of a recently murdered head of a criminal syndicate. There’s a price on their heads […]
The final act of this series continues the momentum from the previous volume as Tsurumi and his men seek to escape the flaming brewery with Asirpa in tow. This results in another one of the chase scenes that this series does so well as multiple parties chase the disguised army members through the town. This […]
It’s only been a little over two-and-a-half years since the release of vol. 11. That’s progress, right! Well if you’re looking for an explanation as to why the second decade of “Black Lagoon’s” serialization has been more sporadic, the lengthy interview at the end of this volume with mangaka Rei Hiroe and his editor will […]
This is the only series where I could say that the previous volume ended with one of its primary characters having parts of his body flash-frozen to the inside of a car and call it “business as usual.” That’s not to say that such a thing, or the resulting battle of wits involving Mista and […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Survival Street “It’s ‘Sesame Street’ meets ‘The A-Team’ in a future American dystopia,” is how I imagine the pitch from co-writers James Asmus and Jim Festante and artist Abylay Kussainov went. Fortunately for us, Dark Horse agreed that it sounded like a good idea and now we’ve got the collected edition of this […]
I said that I wasn’t looking forward to reading this volume at the end of my review of vol. 10. That’s what happens when you try to make the reader as uncomfortable as possible while heading towards a thoroughly obvious plot point. I’ll give mangaka Shuzo Oshimi this, he makes the first third of this […]
In the previous volume, EVERYONE IN THE PARTY WAS DEAD… except for Laios. Which means that we’re going to get some real “‘Die Hard’ In a Foodie-Centric Dungeon-Crawling Manga Action,” right? Well, this is still Laios that we’re talking about, but the end results are as entertaining as they are true to his character. Even […]