Manga and Comic Reviews
“Silver Spoon” is a lot of things, including a romantic comedy. Only in the sense that Hachiken and Mikage’s romance has been played for nothing but laughs since the start of the series. However, as the series heads into its final stretch, mangaka Hiromu Arakawa finally has to get around to making them an official […]
We get another volume-length story, right after the one featured in vol. 3, and it’s a much better one too. Picking up right after the last-panel cliffhanger, the Quin Zaza isn’t able to avoid being clipped by the ship it crosses paths with. The damage is enough to ground the draking ship, and that has […]
“The Ride” is a series of crime comics about what happens to the people who come into possession of, or cross paths with a certain 1968 Camero. Don’t go expecting any “Christine” style shenanigans as the proceedings are played entirely straight. However, the car itself is usually incidental to the story in question, and that’s […]
It doesn’t have a volume number attached to it, but this is essentially vol. 4 of Dan Slott’s run. “The Ultron Agenda” also serves to bring a lot of the subplots from the past issues — the A.I. rights movement, Jocasta’s human yearnings, Aaron Stack’s machines-first feelings, Arno Stark’s treachery, Sunset Bain’s scheming — together […]
I was planning on skipping this volume because I thought it was just a tie-in to the event. Then I noticed it was labeled “vol. 3” and actually contained a proper issue of the series. That being said, the two-issue tie-in from writer Gail Simone and artist Paolo Villanelli is the best part of this […]
Mob’s brother Ritsu has been kidnapped by the evil organization known as Claw. They’re a group of psychics who are combining their power in order to bring about a revolution where they’re in charge of the world. It’s a simple plan, and one that stands a good chance of working given the quality and variety […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: City of Bane Complete Collection First of all, I am expecting this to be good. Writer Tom King has been grinding Batman down for the past few volumes so that Bane’s takeover of Gotham will look convincing. While it’s always hard to see the Dark Knight on the losing end of a […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Crossover #1 You know the story: Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw first hit it big at Image with “God Country” before moving onto bigger things at Marvel. Now they’re re-teaming at Image for a series that borrows a bit from their breakout title, and then goes much bigger with it. While the solicitation […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation(s): I’m taking a mulligan on this month’s recommendations as Dark Horse is still getting their house in order post-shutdown. What that means is not one, but TWO previous Above-the-Board Recommendations are being re-solicited here. One of them is the “Harrow County Omnibus vol. 1” by writer Cullen Bunn, artist Tyler Crook, and more. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Giant-Size X-Men by Jonathan Hickman [and Friends!] For all intents and purposes, this is essentially another volume of Hickman’s “X-Men.” Call it vol. 2.5 if you want, as it will likely wind up between vols. 2&3 on my shelf. The main reason for that is because each of the five issues collected here […]