Manga and Comic Reviews
“The Entertainer” arc wraps up in this volume as everyone involved gets what’s coming to them. Kuroko finds out who the Comedy Writer is and clues them in on one of the basic rules of storytelling. Meanwhile, Hinako trails a possible second perpetrator to their lair and winds up getting more than she bargained for. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Steeple vol. 2: The Silvery Moon Well, this is a pleasant surprise! I thoroughly enjoyed John Allison’s miniseries about young curate Billie who came to the English coastal town of Tredregyn only to get involved with its weirder side. The parts that involved sea monsters, windmills calling forth the rapture, and the local […]
Mika and Cujo’s face-off against Sahaquiel makes for an invigorating start to vol. 6. The former even manages to inspire fear in the latter with his reckless dragon-slaying technique. Unfortunately, things fall into an all-too-familiar groove for the rest of the volume as Cujo convinces Mika to help him take out the dragon that took […]
Mika and Cujo’s face-off against Sahaquiel makes for an invigorating start to vol. 6. The former even manages to inspire fear in the latter with his reckless dragon-slaying technique. Unfortunately, things fall into an all-too-familiar groove for the rest of the volume as Cujo convinces Mika to help him take out the dragon that took […]
This series received a very well-liked anime adaptation last year. I haven’t got around to watching it yet because reading comics and playing videogames still monopolize the majority of my time. (Though anyone who has a Netflix subscription should check out “Dorohedoro” if they haven’t already.) If you’re familiar with how I operate, then it […]
If vol. 14 was the end of “Act II” of this series, then this is the intermission between acts. Thanks to Darryl Lorenz and the Psycho Zaku, the Nanyang Alliance was not only able to escape the Taal Volcano base, but hand the Federation forces a crushing defeat as well. The first half of this […]
Shigeyo “Mob” Kageyama may be the star of “Mob Psycho 100,” but there’s no denying the appeal of his boss Reigen Arataka. A conman with a surprisingly strong moral center, Reigen’s only weapon when it comes to fighting off supernatural forces (and angry clients) is his keen wit that can see through to what’s really […]
Last year’s release of “Mujirushi” was the first new work we had seen from Naoki Urasawa in years. After the writer’s work on “Monster,” “20th Century Boys,” and, to a lesser extent, “Pluto” and “Master Keaton,” I was more than ready to enjoy the hell out of it. Readiness did not equal actuality in this […]
How go the adventures of King Andragoras, currently the most interesting character in the series? Well, there’s nothing as interesting here as his escape and reunion with his *ahem* loving wife Tahemany in the previous volume. Andragoras still cuts an imposing figure here as he broods upon his throne and makes life miserable for the […]
Why yes, it has been quite some time since we last checked in on the adventures of budding neurotic radio personality Minare Koda. Even though Kodansha started publishing the series in individual chapters, I still figured they’d give us the digital volumes as well. They didn’t. So I figured I’d wait until they did, or […]