Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: What’s the Furthest Place From Here? Vol. 4 After three volumes it’s time to answer the biggest mystery of this series: Why weren’t issues #7-9 collected after vol. 1? If the solicitation for this volume is any indication, it’s because these were side-stories illustrated by people other than regular artist Tyler Boss. Now, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Groo: Minstrel Melodies I’ve made no secret that I think the last few volumes of “Groo” haven’t found this series at its best. More overtly preachy, less funny, lacking the fun of the old done-in-one stories of the original Epic run, or even the twelve-issue “Friends & Foes” series. Well, good news everyone! […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Gotham City: Year One I guess I feel obligated to pick the softcover edition of this story as I just ordered the hardcover from Amazon in a “Get 3 For the Price of 2” deal. (What were the others? “Batman: Hush” in paperback and “Superman vol. 1: Supercorp” in hardcover. All of these […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman vol. 2: The Paper Yeah, this feels too easy. There’s some other stuff I was considering for this spot – first volumes of relaunched X-titles, the climax of Ewing’s “Venom” – but when it came down to it, this is the one I wanted to read the most. […]
The Feng-Shui duel between F.F. and Drake’s Dream wraps up in the opening chapters of this volume, and not a moment too soon. This allows the narrative to move on to weirder fights that actually promise to drive the story forward. Such as an infection that starts sweeping through the Disciplinary Wing and turning everyone […]
How is Franklin Richards handling being a normal kid these days? Better than you’d think because he’s not actually any less normal than this future shaper of worlds used to be. He just hides it better these days so that he can keep being a kid while also keeping an eye out for potential world-ending […]
Lori’s found herself a new foster home and her new parents are promising to get her a cat. Sounds great, right? Well, Lori has been through this kind of thing enough to know that the promise of a cat usually doesn’t pan out – and that’s before she wakes up one morning to find out […]
“Usagi” is back at Dark Horse and all is right with the world. I exaggerate as the Rabbit Ronin’s adventures at IDW were unchanged in style and quality from when they were at his previous publisher. That being said, creator Stan Sakai has decided to ring in “Usagi’s” return at Dark Horse in a big […]
The “Tokyo Blade” 2.5D Stage Play is still in full swing, and now it’s time for Aqua and Kana’s big moments. Well, “big” in theory as Kana’s current mindset has her pulling back to support her co-stars so they can shine brighter than her. Meanwhile, Aqua, for all of his technical skill, still doesn’t actually […]
Vol. 2 of this series decided to take a more difficult path as it traced the struggles of multiple characters doing a lot of different things, rather than the focused group activity of the Academy kids in vol. 1. That’s what it looks like vol. 3 will be doing as it picks up again with […]