Manga and Comic Reviews
BARBARIANS OUT! That’s the rallying cry of the politicians from Kyoto as they despair at the savages — you know, like the British, the Dutch, and us Americans — that are infesting random small parts of the nation. However, it’s not like Japan can just close itself off from the world as doing so might […]
Max Winter used to be an outlaw. He, his brother, and their gang used to rob from those who had too much money, and they left more than a few bodies in their wake. Now it’s 1939 and Max is an old man who makes a living by writing thinly veiled versions of these adventures […]
Scott Snyder’s run (and it’s also James Tynion IV’s too) reaches its climax with this volume. I’ve found his “Justice League” to be a little uneven overall. While the writer did his best to try and “Go Big” with every arc, they never quite connected in the way that I’d hoped they would. Either they […]
Things go from bad to worse for Zeke Jenkins and his family in this volume. First his dad has a bad run-in with the local voodoo priestess. Then, after crawdads start killing people Zeke has to find out if it has anything to do with the Jedediah Seed. To no one’s surprise, the seed is […]
Faith is a twentysomething living in New York with a keen interest in the ways of magic. It basically amounts to a bunch of weird-looking doodles in her notebook, but she keeps hoping that it’ll spring into something more. Then she meets Poppy and things start becoming magical. Not only is Poppy a skilled lover, […]
Three years. That’s how long it’s been since the last volume of “Master Keaton” was published in the U.S. and the last time anything from Naoki Urasawa hit these shores as well. After “Monster” and “20th Century Boys” established him as one of the most acclaimed mangaka around, you’d think we’d have received something new […]
Billie Baker is the newest curate in the small British coastal hamlet of Tredregyn. Most curates don’t last long in the town, what with it being besieged by the forces of darkness that lurch out of the sea each night. Fortunately Tredregyn has the stalwart Reverend Penrose on its side as he’s been beating back […]
In this volume, Miles becomes a brother! Uh… I mean this in the sense that his sister is born. Yes, this happened really fast after it was announced that his mom was pregnant in the previous volume. This may seem like a big issue, but just wait until current writer Saladin Ahmed, or some other […]
John and my schedules were completely incompatible this past weekend. So the podcast has been delayed to… hopefully sometime this weekend. Knull may have been released from his prison at the end of “Absolute Carnage,” but at least the title character was stopped, right? Well, Eddie Brock only absorbed the Carnage symbiote into Venom, he […]
I really liked this volume. The problem is that I’m not sure I liked it for the reasons that mangaka Gamon Sakurai intended me to. In a move that I hope surprised absolutely no one (And if it did, welcome to the world of fictional genre stories. Be sure to remember that whenever the author […]