Manga and Comic Reviews
Regardless of the fact that Saitama doesn’t make good on embodying the title of his series for the concluding half of this battle, his fight against Boros is still a marvel of action spectacle. If nothing else, one has to admire the utter balls of ONE and Yusuke Murata to depict the climactic moment of […]
With this, we’ve finally caught up to Viz’s original release of the series. That arc, “Stardust Crusaders,” showed “Jojo’s” finally hitting its stride and cast a shadow over the deluxe edition releases of the first two parts of this title. “Battle Tendency” has been on an upward trajectory over the course of its four volumes, […]
The aftermath of the American Civil War isn’t the last place I’d expect to see as the setting for a manga, but it’s pretty close. “Sacred Beasts” kicks right off with its high concept: In the face of losing the war, the Northern States resorted to using “forbidden arts” to create unstoppable soldiers based on […]
Vol. 7 wastes no time in picking up where the peasant army left off in their siege of the castle of Schwyz. If you’ve enjoyed mangaka Mitsuhisa Kuji’s depiction of medieval siege weaponry and tactics, then she has a lot more to offer up here. We get to see the peasant army, led by the […]
It becomes clearer to me with each passing volume that there is nothing more to be done with the concept of sequential art as a medium after this. Yes, all writers can stop writing, artists can stop drawing, and all inkers, assistants, colorists, and letterers can lay down their tools in the face of the […]
Mikura Amelia is living the dream as she operates a one-plane delivery service that services the many small islands that fall under Tokyo’s jurisdiction. It’s on one such mission that she gets some tragic news: her grandfather, who taught her the ropes as a pilot, has passed away. While going through his things, Mikura finds […]
Akiko Higashimura’s epic of female otaku, fashion, and jellyfish takes two conventional, but not unsatisfying, turns in its second volume. The first is that the standard shojo manga love triangle starts to become a bit more codified here. Dowdy jellyfish-lover Tsukimi really does have the hots for crossdresser Kurano’s handsome, responsible, and utterly inept in […]
Here is where we take a break from any long-term story threads this title has been nurturing. Anyone expecting to learn more about Chise and Elias’ pasts, the mage school that approached Elias in the previous volume, or what that evil alchemist from the first couple of volumes is up to will have to wait […]
Yup, fine. Between driving down on Friday and hanging out with Steve afterwards and on Saturday, I probably spent less time at the con than I have in past years. There was still plenty of rummaging through the half-off bins as well as the four panels I attended, and fun was had in these activities. […]
As I write this, Comic-Con is almost upon us. That means there are all sorts of announcements, official and otherwise, about upcoming titles from the major publishers hitting the internet. In the case of Dark Horse, that includes “Ether” a five-issue miniseries from writer Matt Kindt and artist David Rubin about an inter-dimensional explorer whose […]