Manga and Comic Reviews
Um… yeah, this volume was a surprising misfire for me. Mainly because I’ve been enchanted by mangaka Kaoru Mori’s works for years and this is the first time I’ve read something from her that has really failed to satisfy or entertain me. While she’s always had stellar instincts for characterization, they’re not employed well enough […]
The second volume of “Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto” does get a little more creative in its antics. Where I was worried that seeing the title character effortlessly succeed in the face of any obstacle he faced, mangaka Nami Sano displays a little more inventiveness in showing us how he does that in this volume. […]
Low points don’t get much lower than what we got in vol. 10 of this series. Just about everything that could go wrong for the good guys in this series did, leaving them either dead or out of favor with the new government. Then we left off with the premise of the series being partly […]
Renowned and best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood’s first comics project will be arriving courtesy of Dark Horse in 2016. “Angel Catbird” is described as a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired story about a human whose genes wind up getting spliced with those of a cat and owl. Will Eisner’s “The Spirit,” the Grant Morrison/Chas Truog run of “Animal […]
Now here’s a title that I really wanted to like because of its premise. It starts off with a jobless otaku shut-in being kicked out of his family’s house — because staying inside his room during his parents’ funeral was the last straw — and the immediately dying after pushing a couple out of the […]
I didn’t bother to review the final part of “Part 1” as I would’ve just been repeating what I said about this series for its first two volumes: There were glimmers of potential, but things hadn’t come together just yet. Fortunately, “Part 2” kicks off with the kind of craziness that I like to see […]
Is there anything that can stand in your way after you’ve achieved ultimate power? This volume of “One-Punch Man” has the answer: Bureaucracy! With his unbeatable power Saitama should be a shoe-in for joining the S-rank of superheroes after he and Genos go to sign up with the Hero Association. Yet for all of his […]
My instincts turned out to be right and here we are with the penultimate volume of this series. Scientist Ochiai has successfully managed to transplant his consciousness into the other hybrid, Kanata, and is all set to destroy the Sidonia. Only some quick thinking from the now-promoted Vice Commander Midorikawa manages to avert this crisis. […]
2015 is coming to a close, and I realized that it’s been a while since I’ve mentioned “Eden: It’s an Endless World!” on the blog. So let me reiterate that it’s the one series that I think everyone who visits here regularly should be reading. Full of heady sci-fi concepts and intense action, it never […]
Five years ago, I expressed my delight with the cute kitty antics depicted in the first volume of “Chi’s Sweet Home.” The series has reached its conclusion with vol. 12 and the reason you never read another review after the first… is because my feelings on it never really changed. Mangaka Konami Kanata’s art continued […]