Manga and Comic Reviews
Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. That’s been down to the fact that I’ve been picking up enough stuff to write about that nothing winds up slipping by. Then I realized I was about to put a bunch of titles that I did have some thoughts on straight onto my […]
I was thinking about skipping a writeup of vol. 30 for this series. Why? Because it was just more of the same expertly executed superhero fighting that we’ve been seeing for a while now. The stakes get larger as Black Spermatozoon takes on a more powerful form, Garo re-emerges from the underground, and Homeless Emperor […]
Ashley Moore had a foolproof plan: Keep her head down. Get good grades. Graduate community college. Get a scholarship to any college that would allow her to get the hell out of Twill, her hometown. That all changed the day she woke up dead. Now she doesn’t breathe, doesn’t have a heartbeat, and only craves […]
What is a grommet? In the parlance of the place and time – California in the 1980s – it refers to a young, enthusiastic skateboarder which describes new kid in town Rick and his first friend Brian to a T. Rick’s parents are lame, Brian’s dad is slowly losing his mind, and school is no […]
It’s too good to be true. That’s what Bruce Wayne thinks when he’s presented with Sangraal, a longevity procedure developed by Scarlett Maria Scott – a brilliant geneticist and one of the last people his mother helped directly. Scarlett is offering it to those who can afford it, people like Bruce, but Batman thinks that […]
Thor is still persona non grata with the inhabitants of Midgard after he was framed for the death of Dario Agger by the Enchantress and Skurge. Though he was set up, he’s still the honorable type and returns to that realm to help set everything straight with law enforcement. Except things don’t go as planned […]
Rou Shirakawa may have competed in his first hockey game under duress, but it turned out to be an exciting experience that has now got him hooked on the sport. Which is why he heads out with his one-time teammates to see the Oinokami high school team take on their rivals in Sameoh for the […]
Titans vol. 2: The Dark-Winged Queen may be listed as a “vol. 2” but it’s actually the third in writer Tom Taylor’s run following vol. 1 and “Beast World.” That event series is required reading here as not only are the Titans’ status, and Beast Boy’s in particular, addressed following that event, but the entire […]
Congratulations, Flash Family! You’ve just saved all of reality from all of the threats facing it! What’re you going to do now? If you – the reader – guessed that they were going to take a vacation in the Inner-Earth jungle environment that is Skartaris, then give yourself a gold star. Wally West felt that […]
Vol. 1 of “The Nice House on the Lake” was great and had one of the best surprises I’ve read in recent history. Vol. 2 mostly biffed the follow-up by engaging in a soft reset of the events of vol. 1, a dumb subplot about the consequences of playing with firearms, and a failure to […]