Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultramega #1 I wouldn’t say that the premise for this new series strikes me as being all that interesting: A cosmic plague is turning people into giant monsters and the only ones who can fight them off are three individuals with extraordinary powers. They’re collectively known as the Ultramega, of course. It’s a […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Suicide Squad: Bad Blood “DCeased: Unkillables” was great fun, and it showed that writer Tom Taylor knew how to have fun when playing around with some of the DCU’s less scrupulous characters. Now imagine him and artist Bruno Redondo, at the wheel of comics’ least reputable team. I would think that this is […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: Legends of the Old Republic Omnibus vol. 1 You’d think that diminishing returns would start to set in when you’re doing a licensed spinoff comic based on another property within that same license. “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic,” however, is here to prove you wrong. The series, written by […]
Do you know who we haven’t seen a whole lot of over the course of this series? The humans from the Inside, that’s who. That changes here as the King who almost sacrificed Shiva in the previous volume gets a lot of page space as he reckons with his infirmity in failing to go through […]
Back in 2004, writer Kurt Busiek teamed with artist Stuart Immonen for a story called “Superman: Secret Identity.” It had a dubious high-concept premise: What if a kid named Clark Kent gained the powers of Superman, in a world where “Superman” was a fictional character like he is in ours. The end result, however, was […]
With a resume that includes works like “Summer Blonde,” “Shortcomings,” and “Killing & Dying,” Adrian Tomine stands as one of the comics industry’s most respected cartoonists. It’s not nothing, but “most respected” doesn’t translate into personal wealth, fame, or actual respect. This is something that “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist” makes abundantly clear with […]
In an America where laws are literally fought for on stumps in public, Senator Jack Hammer was someone with his best days behind him. Until he beat the crap out of Senator Sweet Smell over a bill to deregulate genetic engineering. Not only is he now more popular with the general public, he’s got the […]
This final volume arrived a couple months back and it’s been sitting, buried, under other, objectively better comics after I finished reading it. BUT NO LONGER! The craziest train in comics deserves to have its final volume recognized in some form. Even if I’m going to be recounting a lot of the insanity that makes […]
Conventional wisdom dictates that “Kaguya-Sama’s” best days are behind it now. After all, Kaguya and Miyuki are now a couple so all of the romantic tension is deflated along with the “Will They or Won’t They” shenanigans. If fourteen volumes of this series have told us anything, it’s that “Kaguya-Sama” laughs in the face of […]
It took a while, but “Diamond is Unbreakable” finally realized its main plot and actually steered a couple of its principal characters into a conflict with Stand-wielding serial killer Yoshikage Kira. However, the characters in question were Jotaro Joestar and Koichi. In other words: “Guy Who was the Protagonist in the Last Arc” and “Best […]