Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton vol. 1 Trigger Keaton’s action stardom was only equaled by his potential to act like a jerk to everyone around him. It’s why no one was surprised when he wound up dead with a pool of potential suspects a mile wide and deep. Taking up the task of […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellions by Zeb Wells vol. 3 While the current line of X-books has generally been entertaining on its own terms, it’s mainly because they’ve been doing familiar superhero stuff quite well with a straightforward dramatic bent. Well, all of them except for “Hellions.” This has been a darkly funny, deeply cynical series that […]
In the year 199X, the world was engulfed in nuclear fire. The remnants of civilization that crawled out of its ashes were greeted with a new world where only might makes right. If you didn’t have the brawn or the bullets to back up your threats, then you simply had to resign yourself to a […]
The title birds only figure into the first few pages of this volume, but their brief presence is enough to let you know that Magpies are serious business. It’s enough to convince Bridgette that she needs to find her daughter Mary before her dalliance with Merlin and Arthur begets more violence and tragedy. Which is […]
At the beginning of this volume we get the story of the Phoenix of 1,000,000 B.C., with some impressively burly art from Dale Keown. At the end of this volume we see Blade transition out of the Avengers into a job he was born to do with some less-impressive, but still nice art from Luca […]
Aphra eventually managed to give ruthless collector Ronen Tagge what was coming to him in the previous volume. Unfortunately this also managed to put her on the radar of Tagge family head, Domina. Worse still is that Aphra’s actions managed to impress Domina, and now she wants the good doctor to do a job for […]
The end of vol. 17 implied that we were going to get some kind of wacky sex-comedy plot as Prince Kazu (who, in case you’ve forgotten, is a woman pretending to be a man) came up with a plan to get pregnant in order to secure her beloved Iemochi’s position as shogun. It goes on […]
Emma Elliot is in the midst of an epically bad breakup. The kind where she’s been curled up in her bed for the past two weeks before some inspired needling from her roommate finally gets her to rejoin society again. However, it isn’t until she meets a mysterious man named Bob that Emma finally has […]
Writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank didn’t heed my advice at all, and so here we are, six years after vol. 2, with the latest volume of their “Batman: Earth One” graphic novel series. To give you an indication of how long it has taken them to get this volume out, Grant Morrison and […]
The original “Steeple” miniseries from creator John Allison was delightful. It wasn’t just the fact that it was enjoyably quirky in a deeply English way, it was also very funny with two winning leads in curate-turned-satanic-priestess Billie, and satanic-priestess-turned-curate Maggie. I wasn’t expecting a sequel, so the appearance of “The Silvery Moon” in the solicitations […]