Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly Billed as vol. 10 in Dark Horse’s series of comics based on “The Witcher” games – vol. 3 of the omnibus collecting the previous ones is also solicited here – it’s also the first one I’m planning to buy. Not because these have a bad reputation […]
The severed hand of high school student Mako Igarashi is discovered when it is mailed to her home. Before the rest of her body can be found, one of her classmates, Mizuki Aikawa, confesses to her murder. She tells the police where to find Mako’s body, and severed head, as well as where another person […]
It came down to the wire, but Gyoro Zeppelli pulled off a win for the first stage of the Steel Ball Run race. Or did he?! The race’s organizers are stumped by this man’s mysterious past and unpleasantly surprised by how his entry has upset the expectations for the event. Even if they’re going to […]
Princess Ignelia has been kidnapped by the evil necromancer who slew her father! He has taken her to the top of the floating tower and a call has gone out to everyone in the kingdom for warriors valiant enough to help get her back. Answering the call is Yuva, a farmboy who is incredibly strong, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Uri Tupka and the Gods: Another Tale From Lands Unknown It turns out we didn’t have to wait that long for creator Mike Mignola to return to his newest fictional universe. This second installment of “From Lands Unknown” is set to arrive a little over a year after the first and may be […]
The last time I checked in on this series it had just finished up its second arc where Chise and Elias started attending a college for magic users and wound up stopping a power-mad sorceress from using the power of a dead god to resurrect her son. Vol. 20 features a little bit of follow-on […]
The club keeps ticking along even as they try to figure out what their next project is supposed to be. Inspiration comes from the most unlikely of sources, however, when voice-acting congirl Sakurada gets a look at “Tanuki El Dorado” and proceeds to write a critique that shakes Asakusa to her core. Being the trooper […]
High schooler Kensuke Fuji has a problem: He absolutely loves cats, but isn’t allowed to have one of his own. So he spends most of his free time observing the strays in the neighborhood, particularly a calico one named Tamako. When Tamako goes missing, this brings Kensuke into contact with her owner, Jin Nekoya, who […]
This is the latest in mangaka Gou Tanabe’s adaptations of Lovecraft’s work and I bet most people have a good idea of what to expect from them now. I thought I did, but this one is the first to actually disappoint me. Not because of any obvious flaws with the adaptation – not that I […]
The Solar Ray was finally fired at the end of the previous volume and no one escapes unscathed here. Some are more scathed than others, however, but both sides find themselves trying to regroup and regain the upper hand after the event. Not Karla Mitchum, however. She’s finally in a position to exact the revenge […]