Manga and Comic Reviews
There are signs that this series might be getting back to its old, nasty self. They’re after the wrap-up of the “Master Swordsman” arc, though. The finish to that storyline serves up some decent action as Kuroko and Kurono’s duel through the ancient castle takes a fiery turn thanks to the former’s shenanigans. While the […]
I complain a lot about how long Kentaro Miura takes between volumes of “Berserk” on this blog. However, Rei Hiroe’s lack of output on “Black Lagoon” makes Miura look as prolific as a Jump artist with a hit series. Vol. 9 of “Black Lagoon” was published here in July 2010, vol. 10 in April 2015, […]
A while back I called out one volume of this series for being somewhat homophobic in the way that it stereotyped the members of a same-sex couple. Vol. 13 starts off by making amends for that by doing whatever the opposite of homophobic is as Sugimoto and the rest of his crew fight some blind […]
Look at that cover. You can almost feel the smugness radiating off of it. No doubt some of it is left over from vol. 15’s cliffhanger revelation that Shogun Iemochi’s new husband, Prince Kazu, is actually a woman. It read like another kick in the shins at the time, because things have been going bad […]
Let me tell you a bit about how I arrange the manga side of my comics collection. There’s one series of shelves where everything is laid out front-to-back like you’d see in a bookstore. Another series of shelves has the volumes double-stacked: You can see half of the volumes on the shelf while the other […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Harrow County Omnibus vol. 1 I was always curious about this series as I saw new issues and volumes offered month after month in these solicitations. While Cullen Bunn is a decent writer and Tyler Crook is a great artist, the series never quite captured enough of my attention to pick it up. […]
What happens when the woman who can remember everything that’s happened in this world loses her memory? That’s the premise for this volume as the title character emerges out of the woods of Southern Japan in late ‘73 with no memory of who she is. Fortunately she meets up with Ryozo, a young researcher who […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written about the exploits of Hachiken and company. That hasn’t been because of any decline in the overall quality of this series, just that there have been other titles that have demanded my attention. Vol. 12 marks the start of the title’s march towards its end (vol. 15 will […]
It has an art style that owes a deep debt to Hayao Miyazaki’s work on “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind.” There’s also the fact that it makes a big deal out of making meals from fantasy creatures like “Delicious in Dungeon” does. Which means that “Drifting Dragons” is kind of a mash-up of two […]
Man, I’d forgotten that vol. 5 was published at the end of 2017. I thought it had only been a year since it came out and “Drifters” was actually managing something resembling an annual schedule. Silly me. Anyways, the latest battle in the war against the Black King is getting underway at the start of […]