I have a confession to make:  I’ve never read any of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories.  It’s a major failing of mine considering how his work has influenced a lot of what I read, play, and listen to.  One of these days I figure to finally sit down and start reading my way through his canon, but […]

Why yes, part of my plan for burning through all those titles last week was so that I could talk up the latest volume of this excellent series some more.  With the New York Times having divested itself of reporting bestseller lists for manga (and graphic novels in general), there’s no way to tell whether […]

I look at my “to review (maybe)” shelf and realize that there are a lot of “next volume in a manga series” taking up the front half of it.  You’ve probably noticed there’s a certain trend to when I review manga on this site and it’d take me a solid month to get through some […]

I was hoping that the security measures taken by the community that Hideo and Hiromi joined in the previous volume were just a result of them being cautious in this post-collapse world.  Unfortunately it becomes clear very early on that this community is one of those awful quasi-fascist groups run by a crazy person that […]

A quick look through the archives tells me that I skipped reviewing vol. 3 of this series for some reason.  Let me tell you now that it continued the title’s upward trajectory with its focus on the Io Fleming-piloted Gundam versus Darryl Lorenz-piloted Psycho Zaku battle.  It was a thrilling fight that fittingly ended in […]

It’s been three years and five months since we last saw a volume of “Drifters” on these shores.  The only reason we’re getting a new volume now is because the series had a popular anime adaptation last year.  I just want to let that sink in for a bit.  The reason the “Drifters” manga — […]

While I admire a lot of things about this series its best trait may be how economical its storytelling is.  What I mean is that in comparison to other (very) long-running Shonen Jump titles, mangaka Yusei Matsui rarely feels the need to drag arcs of this series out over multiple volumes.  For example:  Last volume […]

The bad news is that there’s not one moment in the art for this volume that gets me like it did in vol. 4.  There are some striking moments, however.  Gosho’s iron-willed determination to get out of a fiery situation late in the volume is impressively conveyed and followed up with the sequential art version […]

For a series that started off so very well attuned to my (trashier) sensibilities, “Murcielago” has been doing a lot to get me to not like it.  After lesbian mass-murderer protagonist Kuroko Koumori enthusiastically came on to an underage girl and the rock-stupid antics of Hinako in the last volume, the series plows into some […]