Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
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 […]
The first round of testing for the First-Class Mage exam has begun. All that the teams involved have to do is capture a Stille and make sure all of their members are still alive by sunset the following day. This sounds simple, but the Stille is a bird that can fly at supersonic speed and […]
Hmmmm… In light of recent events, I think I’m going to have to re-title the next edition of this. Above-the-Board Recommendation: Delver vol. 2 I thought that the first volume of this series offered an interesting perspective on the fantasy trope of a dungeon crawl, with some surprisingly intense action to go along with it. […]
There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the first four chapters of this volume. Oran and Oba have what appears to be a final encounter. Miura goes on TV to let everyone know that the alien mothership is going to explode in a few hours. Hiroshi tries to get out of the city while […]
It’s. Finally. Here. “Kurosagi’s” return was originally announced back at Anime Expo in July 2019 with this fifth omnibus including the never-before-published vol. 15 set for March 2020, and a sixth omnibus of three new volumes to arrive later that year. I don’t think I need to tell you how those plans were interrupted. Given […]