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Dark Horse Penguin Picks: January 2023

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 […]

Blood on the Tracks vol. 11

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 […]

Delicious in Dungeon vol. 11

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 […]

Dai Dark vol. 4

Vol. 3 gave us the inkling of a solid direction for this series.  The information the Four Little Shits acquired from the Lighthead Order pointed to a place called Zolar.  Nobody knows where it is, but it’s said to be where the universe began.  Zaha and company figure it’s as good a place as any […]

Blood on the Tracks vol. 10

There’s been a major change in Seiichi’s life since the last time we checked in on him:  His mother has been arrested for pushing Shige off of the cliff way back in the first volume.  She’s currently undergoing psychological examination to determine if she’s competent to stand trial, but her absence from her son’s life […]