Manga and Comic Reviews
Lately, writing out these Previews Picks entries every month has felt more like a grind than a fun diversion from all the reviews I write around here. So this month I’m going to try something new. Below the link are my thoughts on the most notable solicitations from DC, Dark Horse, Image, and Marvel as […]
What’s new in the land of “Kamuy?” Sugimo and Asirpa have just pulled the latest convict with a tattooed skin out of the sea at a fishing village. Unfortunately for them, they don’t know that he’s the man they want or that he’s a serial killer with a death wish. While he’ll kill a man […]
Enter Yu Ishigami! The student council’s elusive treasurer finally makes his appearance in Kaguya-Sama: Love is War vol. 3 and proves to be a worthy addition to the core cast. He’s a gloomy otaku with a gift for number crunching and an unfortunate knack for saying or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. […]
For all its flaws, “Gantz” never bothered with filler arcs. Sure, there were some storylines that probably would’ve benefitted from judicious editing, but every arc served to push the main story forward in some way. There were never any arcs that took the focus away from the main characters and showed us how another group […]
My concern after the (still compulsively readable) vol. 9 was that this series was going to wind up becoming “The Thorfinn Show” as the main plot continued to focus in on him to the exclusion of the rest of the cast. That’s still a valid concern with this volume as Thorfinn meets Vagn, the leader […]
I thought that “Mob Psycho 100” was going to be the only “How the hell did this happen?” manga license from Dark Horse this year. I was wrong. At this year’s Anime Expo the company announced that they’ll be publishing the “Elfen Lied” manga in a series of four three-in-one omnibi. It’s a series about […]
What we have here is an action-centric volume and thankfully a gimmick-free one this time around. After the Spartan crosses the border of the Nanyang Alliance’s territory combat breaks out between the two sides. While that sounds simple enough, there are two complicating factors at work here: One is the Alliance’s efforts to get onboard […]
Apparently this series isn’t going to progress in a straight line, chronologically speaking. Vol. 3 takes us back to the time period of the first volume, and while I’m kinda disappointed that we’re not going to follow up with what Alita is up to in the present, we get some good backstory development here. Not […]
Now this is weird. The previous volume put the main plot on hold to focus entirely on a grown-up Yukiko Gosho as she tried to put the vampire-related trauma of her high school years behind her and live an ordinary life. It was an effective character study that ended in a way that promised a […]
How can you tell when a creator is firing on all cylinders regarding their current series? When they ditch their main cast and setting to focus on an all-new group of people in a completely different situation. That’s what mangaka Kengo Hanazawa does in this latest omnibus as we continue to focus on former shut-in […]