Manga and Comic Reviews
It’s been four years since we got our last dose of Bible Stories from writer Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera. “Before the Flood” told us what a certain biblical immortal was up to while Noah was getting his ark ready, and while it had its moments the story it was telling felt very familiar in […]
Thinking back on it, we shouldn’t have been too surprised by the fact that Denji’s new girlfriend, Reze, turned out to be a Devil. If she had been a normal human and genuine in her intentions towards him then the only options are that she hangs around to potentially get fridged by a devil or […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Joy Operations #1 (of 5) This gets here mainly on sheer force-of-will as the big news last week was that Bendis is bringing his Jinxworld line of creator-owned projects to Dark Horse. Expect new editions of his previous titles, a new edition of “Pearl” was mentioned, along with a softcover edition of “Powers: […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: What’s the Place Furthest From Here? #1 Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss broke into the industry via their smash indie hit “4 Kids Walk Into a Bank.” It was a really entertaining heist story, told from the perspective of the kids who were planning it, that was only held back by it’s too-dark […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: One Dark Knight #1 (of 3) Hey, it’s another “Batman” title in this spot! Surprising, I know. The thing is that there’s a lack of promising new titles in these solicitations and the collected editions I’m interested in are debuting hardcover-first, so a new miniseries featuring the Caped Crusader gets this month’s […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: Life Day #1 The existence of this comic shows that either Marvel is completely shameless when it comes to exploiting the “Star Wars” license, or utterly fearless about doing the same. For those of you who are either too young to remember or have blocked it from your mind until now […]
In case anyone was wondering if I could actually review a volume of this series without waiting for a week’s worth of them to build up first, the answer is yes. Yes I can. With that out of the way, vol. 22 picks up immediately after the events of vol. 21 as now that Asirpa […]
Simon Spurrier’s concluding volume of “Hellblazer” wasn’t everything I wanted from a story about John Constantine. Neither is “Rise and Fall.” To writer Tom Taylor and artist Darick Robertson’s credit, however, they get a lot closer to nailing the appeal of the character and why I like reading stories about him. Even if the story […]
The first couple of Aaron Kuder-illustrated issues of this volume are fun as they address the fallout of the first volume, show what happens when a random man gets the power of Thor, and feature a satisfyingly tense encounter between the title character and Iron Man. This is good because the next six issues are […]
Al Ewing has been writing great, and underappreciated, comics at Marvel for a while now. Though the likes of “New Avengers: A.I.M.,” “Ultimates,” and “Loki: Agent of Asgard” were all quite entertaining, none of them set the sales charts on fire. Then along came his work on “The Immortal Hulk,” which vaulted Ewing onto the […]