Manga and Comic Reviews
You know, I bet there are some readers of this series who are so into it that they reached the end of this volume and felt legitimate suspense at its conclusion and the possibility it represents. Most readers, I would imagine, got to the end of vol. 14 and probably felt their stomach turn a […]
Though it sat on my shelf for a while, but “Bloodborne” wound up being the first “Souls-like” game that I finished. While it can be a very engaging game to play, if you’re willing to commit what it asks of you, “Bloodborne” absolutely isn’t something that you play for its story. What narrative it has […]
Killian is your average twentysomething layabout in Dublin, playing videogames in between doing jobs for the local mob. What kind of jobs you ask? The kind that usually involve disappearing a corpse into the local wetlands. His partner on these jobs is an older, swearier gent named Keano, who has just come by with the […]
I thought that the first volume of Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s Texas vampire family drama was alright. The second one was too, though it didn’t do much to push the series off of my, “I’ll buy it at a deep discount,” list. Vol. 3, however, is where this title has finally clicked for me. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DRACULA, MOTHERF**CKER! It’s a 72-page original graphic novel that’s retailing for $17. How did it manage to get the top spot for this round of solicitations — even though it’s also advance-solicited for October? Well, it’s coming from writer Alex De Campi, who has shown she can deliver quality pulp with “Grindhouse” and […]
Now I can say that I’ve read at least one of the manga nominated for the “Best U.S. Edition of International Material — Asia” Eisner this year. Thank Amazon’s recent “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” sale and my love of anything that features cats for that. As for the volume itself, you can thank the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X of Swords: Creation #1 Event season never stops at Marvel Comics these days. What we’ve got here, however, is a gen-u-ine throwback here. Not only is this strictly an “X-Men” event, but it’s the kind of inter-title crossover that used to be a staple of the line. The last one of these […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation Octopath Traveller: The Complete Guide Yes, I know this isn’t a comic. It doesn’t even fully qualify as an artbook as the solicitation text and subtitle reveal that it’s also part strategy guide as well. So what’s it doing here? For one, it’s an extraordinarily slow September in these solicitations as Dark Horse […]
Well, I can’t call these “Previews Picks” anymore… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? I think Matt Fraction is a very uneven writer. His runs on “Invincible Iron Man,” “Uncanny X-Men,” and “Sex Criminals” were marked by parts that were really good, and parts that were really terrible. The one series […]
Yoshitoki Oima showed with “A Silent Voice” that she could mix serious social issues with heartfelt melodrama and interesting characters to tell an interesting story in the present day. Even if the first volume and its illustration of bullying was a full notch above the six that followed. Her follow-up series is miles away from […]