Manga and Comic Reviews
While we’re finally getting COVID-19 under control, its ongoing presence is still preventing a return to normal for a lot of conventions. This includes my enduring favorite, Fanime in the San Jose area. The pandemic has now prevented the convention from being held in-person twice. Fortunately, people want to attend Fanime and it’s how we […]
Vol. 3 kicks off with the arrival of Yuri Briar to the Forger family household for dinner. Not only is he Yor’s brother, but he’s also a member of Ostania’s secret police, and he loves his sister dearly. To the point of comedic awkwardness as he’s roughly as many social graces as his sister. This […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Radiant Black vol. 1 Nathan Burnett’s life sucks right now. How badly does it suck? So much so that he’s celebrating his 30th birthday by moving back in with his parents. The good news is that he’s about to find the power of the Radiant which will change his life forever… Assuming that […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: She Could Fly vol. 3 Vol. 1 boasted a compelling illustration of mental illness, along with a lot of quirk to go along with it. Vol. 2 had me getting better acclimated to this title’s quirkiness while also giving us a quasi-ending that wrapped up the story as best it could. It also […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men: Hellfire Gala — The Red Carpet Edition HC I am nothing if not consistent when it comes to putting big “X-Men” events here. That said, the “Hellfire Gala” is a bit different from the likes of “X of Swords.” Where that storyline sprawled through multiple titles and one-shots, the spine of this […]
As far as cliffhangers go, the one for vol. 9 of this series was top-notch. It implied something awful and I was bracing for the worst when I opened up vol. 10. What I got… was a big ol’ flashback to when Teacher was still human. While his days as a human had long been […]
Tom Taylor has written several comics I’ve really liked, with his run on “All-New Wolverine” and “DCeased: Unkillables” chief among them. So when I heard that he was going the creator-owned route with artist Daniele Di Nicuolo for “Seven Secrets” at BOOM! I knew that I had to check it out. Never mind the fact […]
When vol. 4 ended, scientist explorer Nathan Cole was kind of screwed. He was stuck in Oblivion with no clear way home and was effectively Public Enemy No. 1 as far as the Faceless Men were concerned. Still, as the foremost expert regarding this place, its ecology, and inhabitants, you’d think that Nathan wouldn’t have […]
I, like many other people, was greeted with some truly awful news when I went to check the online news this morning. Kentaro Miura, the creator of “Berserk,” passed away due to aortic dissection on May 6th. He created a number of shorter works such as “King of Wolves,” “Japan,” and “Giganto Maxia” over the […]
After mixed-but-promising results from Soule’s first volume, I went into this one expecting him to start delivering on that promise. Vol. 2 is still something of a mixed bag however, as “Operation Starlight” shows that the writer’s run isn’t quite clicking in the way that I was hoping it would. I do have to give […]