Manga and Comic Reviews
I was hoping this arc was going to bring the series back to its old, nasty roots. Having it involve a crazed serial killer living in the sewers who takes bites out of girls will do that to you. What it ultimately winds up being is little more than a riff on your average underground […]
I’ve been banging on for a while about how this series has lacked for a strong narrative direction, even as most of the stories being told are still quite good. Well, this volume has finally addressed this issue. “Diamond is Unbreakable” finally has a direction again: Finding and stopping the serial killer lurking within Morioh. […]
The wheel-spinning is over and vol. 8 finds this series returning to its usual standard of quality. This standard usually involved a lot of heartbreak, and that’s exceptionally true here. It starts with Shiva’s disappearance at the end of the previous volume being resolved in short order while also causing Teacher to come to a […]
You know, I bet there are some readers of this series who are so into it that they reached the end of this volume and felt legitimate suspense at its conclusion and the possibility it represents. Most readers, I would imagine, got to the end of vol. 14 and probably felt their stomach turn a […]
Now I can say that I’ve read at least one of the manga nominated for the “Best U.S. Edition of International Material — Asia” Eisner this year. Thank Amazon’s recent “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” sale and my love of anything that features cats for that. As for the volume itself, you can thank the […]
Yoshitoki Oima showed with “A Silent Voice” that she could mix serious social issues with heartfelt melodrama and interesting characters to tell an interesting story in the present day. Even if the first volume and its illustration of bullying was a full notch above the six that followed. Her follow-up series is miles away from […]
If there were two comics that I was looking forward to reading this year, they were the fifth and sixth omnibi of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.” I couldn’t believe it when Dark Horse announced that they were bringing this series back after it went on hiatus years ago. The fact that I’d effectively be […]
I hear that James Stokoe managed to secure five nominations, the most of any creator, between his one-shot “Sobek” from Shortbox, and “Grunt” his book of art and unpublished comics from Dark Horse. Regular readers will know that I’m a big fan of Stokoe’s work, so I hope he secures at least one win from […]
While it looks like Dark Horse is playing catch-up with its single-issue solicitations here, they’ve got plenty of new collected editions on offer here. Including one that tickles my fancy enough for… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Blade of the Immortal Deluxe Edition vol. 1 HC Seeing “Blade” reissued in this format just warms my heart. While it […]
With this volume, Kodansha has now published as many volumes of “All-Rounder Meguru” as Dark Horse has of “Eden: It’s an Endless World!” Which is still something that I highly recommend EVERYONE who visits this blog to check out. Especially now as comics emerge (slowly) from lockdown. As for the volume itself, it’s another solid […]