Manga and Comic Reviews
“Batman Black & White” has been one of the most consistently successful anthology series in comics for a couple decades now. There’s something about the appeal of telling a “Batman” story in black and white (and shades of gray) that tends to bring out the best in a lot of creators. Vol. 5, however, isn’t […]
Have you ever wondered what Norgal the Head Lopper was up to before he wandered the wilderness with the severed head of Agatha the Witch? Well, you finally get to find out in this volume as their travels, along with warrior-thief Brishka, and guileless one-eyed Goat, take them back to one of Norgal’s old haunts. […]
On the surface, Edison Hark has it a lot better than most Chinese-American citizens circa 1936. Not only is his surrogate father Mason Carroway a very rich businessman, but those family connections helped him become a cop out in Honolulu. However, Edison is now back stateside after his brother Frankie told him that their dad […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Nice House on the Lake vol. 1 I picked the first issue of this maxi-series for this slot a while back and now I’m giving its first volume the same treatment despite the fact that I haven’t read any of it yet. What gives? Well, in a slate of solicitations that runs […]
The dragon the Quin Zaza was facing off against at the end of vol. 8 was special in a couple of ways. We find out here that not only is it one of the four legendary dragons that roam the skies, but it’s also the one that took down the Quin Zaza and its original […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cat Gamer vol. 1 I like videogames. I like cats. Show me a manga where the two come together and you can be sure that I’ll buy it. “Cat Gamer” comes from mangaka Wataru Nadatani and is about aging (she’s 29, so I’m going by Japanese standards here) office worker Riko who is […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: God Hates Astronauts Omnimegabus Ryan Browne may be busy these days with his own projects and illustrating stuff other people have written, like “Curse Words” with Charles Soule, but his signature project in my opinion will always be “God Hates Astronauts.” Why does God hate astronauts? That’s not the question you should be […]
New year, new title. Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men by Gerry Duggan vol. 1 This month it was less a question of if I was going to pick an “X-Men” book than what “X-Men” book I was going to pick. The first volume of the latest “X-Men” series is arguably a safe choice, but it still has […]
If you thought that Asa meeting up with Keiichi at the end of the previous volume was going to be the start of this series moving on to bigger things, then you were right. …From a certain point of view. That’s because we’re still in 1964 and the Tokyo Olympics are about to kick off! […]
Since 2014 and the release of the first “John Wick” film, we’ve been living in the Keanussance. Decades from now, historians will look back on this period and recognize it as the time we as a civilization realized that the star of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” “Speed,” the “Matrix” trilogy was actually still cool […]