Manga and Comic Reviews
More than any other, this is the volume I’ve been waiting to re-read once it was announced that the “Silver Spoon” manga had been licensed for U.S. release. That’s because it finally introduces one of the most significant characters to the main story: Hachiken’s Dad, Kazumasa. (Really, it should be Yuugo’s Dad since Hachiken is […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Empowered vol. 11 Hey, it’s about goddamn ti– I mean, it’s great to see another volume of Adam Warren’s consistently great superhero parody/actual superhero series. Yes, he’s been putting out spinoff miniseries like “Soldier of Love” and “Sistah Spooky’s High School Hell” with different artists, but there’s no replacing the feeling that you […]
One door closes and another opens… As the previous volume made explicitly clear, we’re onto a new arc in this series. The “College Arc” to be precise. After settling things with Cartaphilius and managing her curses into a state of equilibrium, things are actually going well for Chise right now. Which means that the invitation […]
Meiko’s regression to a childlike personality has been an unwelcome yet necessary development for this series. That’s because in order for the student council to be a credible threat to the Shadow Student Council, she had to be taken off the board. The good news is that the rest of the cast has been more […]
Why is it time for another one of these? Even after doing this I’ll still have enough manga to write about for the next month. That’s also not taking into account that my “to buy” list has almost reached critical mass before I make another order through The Right Stuf. So sit back and enjoy […]
I was under the assumption that seaplane-faring deliveryperson Mikuru Amelia’s quest for the titular island would prove to be as elusive as the next volume in this series. So it’s only fitting that she discovers it shortly into this second volume. Now that she’s finally found it, everything’s great. Right? Well, not only is she […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Snow, Glass, Apples HC This is the latest entry in “The Neil Gaiman Library” from the company. Coming back for her second tour of duty on this kind of project is Colleen Doran, best known for her epic creator-owned series “A Distant Star.” She’s also worked with Gaiman directly on a couple of […]
After “The Flowers of Evil” and “Happiness” this is Shuzo Oshimi’s third series about a girl who takes a boy down a path in life that he couldn’t have imagined. Like the latter series, there’s a supernatural aspect to this story about college dropout and social recluse Isao. He spends his days jerking off and […]
When I originally wrote that this series would appeal to people who like weird and interesting manga, provided they had the patience for it, I didn’t think that patience would also have to extend to the wait between volumes. The first omnibus volume of “Die Wergelder” arrived on our shores back in December of 2015 […]
Two volumes in and I’m still waiting for mangaka Tsutomu Nihei to shake up the storytelling here. It’s all so familiar as vol. 2 begins with Etherow and Titania arriving in an Imperial town only to get thrown into jail after the former is suspected of suffering from Frame Disease. This only puts him right […]