Manga and Comic Reviews
The previous volume teased this one as promising the most “taboo” content yet. Given how this series has played out so far, that came off as much of a threat as a promise. While it’s hard to say whether or not this is the envelope-pushing-est volume of the series to date, following one that focused […]
Well, that was quick. The first volume of Alita’s latest series had me expecting that it’d be a while before we caught up to her present-day post-”Last Order” exploits. Vol. 2 of “Mars Chronicle” starts out by immediately going “nope” to my expectations and starts off with Alita and Erica meeting at the site of […]
There’s always going to be tech problems at any con. Between mechanical and human errors it’s always a matter of “when” things are going to go wrong rather than “if.” For the first couple of days at this year’s Fanime it seemed like every panel that involved a laptop was hamstrung by some kind of […]
Inio Asano has had enough works translated into English that his tics have become readily apparent at this point. The characters who speak with arch know-it-all sensibilities, his love of magical realism or outright surrealism, and stories that mix everyday whimsy with crushing despair. It’s to the point where I’d imagine that you’re either onboard […]
The company may have lost the “Star Wars” and “Conan” licenses to Marvel, but they’ve been getting plenty of Disney licenses to help balance things out. Last month’s solicitations had the debut of an “Incredibles” miniseries while this month has the first issue of Frozen: Breaking Boundaries which is described as the first multi-issue comics […]
Huh. It turns out this is the final volume. I’m not sure how I failed to see this coming or how I convinced myself in the first place that this was going to be a 22-volume series. Oh well, that just means I’ve reached the end of this really good series a little earlier than […]
There were times last year where I was worried that I wouldn’t have a manga title to review in a given week. Flash forward to today and now my “to review” pile is positively choked with manga. Which is a good thing as there have been times in the past where, as some series concluded, […]
I thought that the first two volumes of this series were fun, but a little slight in the storytelling department. The good news is that things get a lot more interesting with these two volumes. After the demonic threat, and affectingly tragic backstory, of the previous volume is taken care of, Johanna and Marion head […]
After eight (really sixteen) volumes you’d think that “Prison School’s” schtick would be firmly established by now. The boys act like knuckleheads — maybe one gets caught with his dick out, the girls embarrass themselves in dealing with the boys — maybe one gets caught hanging from a doorknob by her panties, and everything is […]
From the realm of “How the hell did this happen?!” comes the announcement that Dark Horse has licensed the “Mob Psycho 100” manga. It’s from ONE, the co-creator of “One-Punch Man,” and focuses on a con man who exploits a kid with psychic powers to run a ghostbusting operation but also has to act as […]