Manga and Comic Reviews
So I was looking at my “to review” pile and saw that there’s an excessively large amount of manga in it. Enough to take me into December if I tackled each volume at my normal rate. Then I remembered that I’ve got another order of manga coming in from The Right Stuf as I write […]
“Batman: Damned” got off to a headline-grabbing start last week. Not because of its status as the debut “Black Label” title for mature readers superhero comics, or the quality of the storytelling from writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo. No, it grabbed all of those headlines because in one scene Bermejo drew Batman disrobing […]
For the last several volumes this series has been focused on the martial-arts tournament that Saitama has been competing in so that he can learn more about this particular style of fighting. While this has been going on, a monster invasion in the city has had the many members of the Hero Association playing defense. […]
What fresh hell awaits us in this volume? Not much, all things considered. Compared to previous volumes where I was expecting “Murcielago” to stop trying to shock me, only to be proven wrong in unsettling and/or skin-crawling ways, this volume is relatively sedate. A kid gets stabbed in the head, a woman gets part of […]
Leonardo Watch is about to face his biggest challenge yet as a member of Libra. It starts off with his sister breaking the news that not only is she getting married, she’s coming to visit him in Hellsalem’s Lot with her fiancee in tow. The good news is that said fiancee, Toby McLachlan, looks to […]
If you were hoping that the lesbian psychodrama which provided the high point of the previous volume would continue in some way here, then you’re going to be disappointed. The good news is that the sexy shenanigans of this volume are some of the best this series has offered up in recent memory. It starts […]
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 […]