Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Mangaka Gou Tanabe’s art is once again the major selling point for the second half of his adaptation of Lovecraft’s novel. Whether he’s drawing carvings of the history of the Great Old Ones, or actually showing it to us, or displaying two men of science fleeing for their lives in abject terror, there’s a confidence […]
Savor this volume. Not just because it’s good, but because it’s likely the last we’ll see of this series until late 2021. That’s if we’re lucky and mangaka Makoto Yukimura keeps to what has been a slightly-faster-than-annual-release of new volumes in Japan. At least vol. 11 doesn’t have a cliffhanger in store for us as […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Against Hope Her family was killed by a crazy family of Neo Nazis. She spent her teenage years grieving before she turned herself into a ruthless bounty hunter as an adult. Now Hope has found out that the family who ruined her life is running for public office while they run a secret […]
(Just a reminder: If you read scanlations without buying the official release in your country of residence, you are a BAD PERSON!) I know, it’s been a while since I’ve checked on the wacky hijinks of Kaguya, Miyuki, and company. I’ll admit that when it comes to this series, there’s only so many ways I […]