Manga and Comic Reviews
No points for guessing what took a long time to come back into stock for me to order over at The Right Stuf. The upside here is that now I should only have to wait 21 months until vol. 13…? Regardless of how long the wait is, I’m sure it’ll be worth it because “Vinland […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Jinx This is the story of a couple of two-bit hustlers, Goldfish and Columbia, who each wind up with half of the location to where a major cash stash is located, and the title character, a bounty hunter who crosses their paths. It’s also the longest series Brian Michael Bendis did by himself […]
One thing I was disappointed with last year is that the “Dorohedoro” manga never went on sale at ComiXology. I say this because I’ve got nineteen more volumes left to buy and I’d prefer not to pay a premium for them, no matter how much I liked the first three and (especially) the anime. While […]
This volume’s first story involves Nene getting to know a young girl who is about to experience life with a completely different kind of cyberbody. Now, I expect this story to have a humanist sci-fi bent that takes the unusual nature of this cyberbody and spins a surprisingly touching tale that’s another showcase for our […]
This series has been treading the waters of “Not as Good as it Once Was” for a good long while now. I keep waiting for it to either step up its storytelling game or to give us some signs of its old, nasty self that thrived on shock value. What I was not expecting was […]
In the previous volume, Denji and most of the main cast went to Hell. Nobody goes to Hell in this volume. They just go through it. Starting with Power, who has been traumatized by her encounter with the Darkness Devil and can’t calm down as a result of it. Denji does his best to deal […]
You know, if this volume represents the last we see of Tanigaki in this series… I’m cool with that. Meanwhile, Sugimoto, Asirpa, and Shiraishi are on the trail of another tattooed convict, Botaro the Pirate. When they get word that a man with strange tattoos is working as a candy seller in a nearby town, […]
There are a lot of great things about this series. One of the best is how it never forgets about its sense of humor. There may be points in the story where things take a turn for the dramatic, but there’s always been some kind of fun ridiculousness lurking underneath the drama to remind you […]
The first half of this volume carries in much the same way as the first one did. That is to say it makes for decent fantasy comfort food reading as Frieren and her apprentice Fern continue their way North back to the Demon King’s castle. Her former comrade Eisen is here for the first chapter […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: No One Left to Fight II The choice this month was between the latest collection of a miniseries from a creator that I really like or the latest volume in this series – the first issues of which both received the “Above-the-Board” treatment when they were solicited. I decided on “No One Left […]