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Mob Psycho 100 vol. 4

Are you ready for a BLOOD FEUD?!  It looks like that’s where the story’s headed not too far into vol. 4 as Mob’s brother Ritsu fully awakens to his own powers (with some questionable help from Dimple).  Unfortunately for him, this has come along at a time when his emotional stability has taken a hit, […]

She Could Fly vol. 2: The Lost Pilot

Here’s a follow-up where its ceiling and floor are closer together in terms of quality.  Where vol. 1’s strength was in its portrayal of protagonist Luna Brewster’s mental issues, vol. 2 loses a little bit in that regard.  It’s been a year since the conspiracy-fueled bloodshed at her house, and Luna is now back at […]

Gigant vol. 1

If there’s one thing that mangaka Hiroya Oku does well, it’s that he’s got a real knack for conveying action on the page.  Even when it felt like “Gantz” was going off the rails, the action scenes were still compelling.  His follow-up series “Inuyashiki” did have some decent moments of android-on-human and android-on-android fighting, but […]

The Weather Man vol. 2

It still sucks to be Nathan Bright.  After escaping the pay-per-view VR murder marathon from the previous volume, he now finds himself heading back to Earth with (former?) government operative Amanda Cross and her mercenary pals.  Why are they doing this after Earth was hit with a virus that has killed 18 billion of its […]

Trees vol. 3: Three Fates

Warren Ellis has said in his newsletter that this will be the last volume of “Trees” for a while, if ever.  That’s because he’s got a number of other projects (mostly TV) in the offing and artist Jason Howard has his own thing that he’s been working on.  Unlike Ellis’ other ongoing series at Image, […]

Batman: Universe

We all expected Bendis was going to write a “Batman” story when he moved over to DC.  I just don’t think this was the story any of us expected him to write.  Originally serialized in twelve parts over the course of twelve of the Walmart-exclusive “Batman Giant” issues, before being repackaged as a standard six-part […]