Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Resident Alien vol. 9: The Book of Changes Alien Harry Vanderspiegel has been through a lot since settling in the town of Patience and assuming the identity of its resident doctor. Now he’s retired, in a relationship with a human woman, who he has had a hybrid child with. It’s that last bit […]
The kings are dead? That’s certainly how it looked at the end of vol. 21 as a possessed Innocentis grabbed Andragoras and threw them both off of the tower they were in. It would take a formidable constitution (and a lot of luck) to survive such an act, so does this mean that Arslan is […]
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 […]