Manga and Comic Reviews
Vol. 1 left off with an effective cliffhanger that had another Outsider grabbing little girl Shiva’s face as her guardian Outsider, Teacher, walked in. What follows is unusual for the series so far in that it’s a fight scene and a surprisingly violent one at that, delivering blood and dismemberment at one point. It’s also […]
I checked the publication date for vol. 37 and found something surprising. It hasn’t been the four or five years that I thought had passed since the publication of the previous volume of “Berserk” on these shores. It’s only been three years and eight months. Does this knowledge make me feel any better about the […]
Mangaka Akiko Higashimura has successfully mined the follies of female otaku for comedy and drama over in “Princess Jellyfish.” Now she tries to do the same for Japanese career women of a certain age (read: over 30) who have finally started to realize that their chance to get married has passed them by. Rinko is […]
Yeah… this arrived much, much sooner than I was expecting. It was even part of a Kodansha “Digital First” sale at ComiXology so I was able to pick it up at a discount. As glad as I am that I was able to read vol. 4 of this series, it does cast some shade on […]
Dark Horse had some notable media announcements during Comic-Con this year with three of its titles receiving TV adaptations. One of them, “Flutter” about a shapeshifting girl who turns into a boy to pursue a girl she likes, I haven’t read. Another, “Mind MGMT,” is one I’m very familiar with and kind of surprised to […]
Some people come back from Comic-Con with stories of the long lines they had to stand in so they could get into the panels they wanted to see. Not me, though. I stayed the hell away from Hall H and the other big media panel rooms and only went to comic-focused panels. So not only […]
True story: I started reading this volume the evening it arrived with the intent to find out how the cliffhanger from vol. 8 would be resolved and to finish up the rest of it tomorrow. A couple hours later, I had burned through the entire thing (and did it again before sitting down to write […]
Are you ready for an adventure! How about the story about an “unkillable” former soldier and the native girl he teams up with in order to find a fortune in stolen gold where the map to it has been tattooed on the skin of prisoners? If that’s the case, then go out and buy a […]
Vol. 2 of this series carries on in much the same way as vol. 1 did. There’s plenty of over-the-top thrills on tap here, but not a whole lot of depth to go along with them. The first two-thirds of vol. 2 are dedicated to wrapping up the “Murder Party” arc from the previous volume […]
One of the titles in this month’s round of solicitations either represents a welcome second chance for a series or evidence that Dark Horse needs to re-think the way they promote original titles without a built-in audience. The Once and Future Queen is a modern-day female-centric spin on the Arthurian Legend from writers Adam Knave […]