Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Dozle’s arc in the previous volume will likely go down as the emotional high point of this series for me. But I’ll be damned if mangaka Yoshikazu Yasuhiko doesn’t serve up a chaotically epic final battle between the Federation and Zeon forces here. While the Federation forces were able to fry Solomon Base in the […]
It would appear that mangaka Satsuki Yoshino has found a formula that works for her with “Barakamon.” While I expressed hope that she’d find a way to mix things up, it seems that the series is going to revolve around “Sensei” Honda slowly growing more acquainted with the quirks of the rural coastal village he’s […]
This “Second Season” of “Genshiken” is going to end up not being as enjoyable as the first. I don’t know how many more volumes of it mangaka Shimoku Kio has in store for us now, but no amount of effort is likely to reverse that fact. I’m saying this now because I’ve come to the […]