Manga and Comic Reviews
I’ve been a fan of Inio Asano ever since “Solanin” was published in English. The mangaka had an interesting perspective on the world that embraced humor, sadness, and surrealism as its characters navigated their post-college lives without proper direction. His subsequent works that were published in English — “What A Wonderful World!,” “A Girl on […]
I thought Dark Horse was done reprinting old flipped manga titles from their back catalog. I’m glad that they’re not, both for this and other titles that have long since gone out of print. Some history about this one first: “What’s Michael?” was something of an anomaly in the publisher’s seinen (young men’s) heavy output […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Chu #1: Writer John Layman spent a week teasing this spin-off to his and Rob Guillory’s signature series. I say “spin-off” and not “sequel” because this looks to take place concurrently with “Chew,” albeit with a very different main character and focus. Saffron Chu wasn’t talked about a whole lot in the series, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Dreaming vol. 3: One Magical Movement Vol. 1 was basically everything I wanted to see in a return to the world and characters created by Neil Gaiman. Vol. 2 showed us what had been going on with Daniel and gave us an enchanting journey through the realms of fantasy while establishing the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Resident Alien Omnibus vol. 1 Dr. Harry Vanderspeigel has a secret: He’s not actually Dr. Harry Vanderspeigel. He’s actually an alien who has assumed the retired and reclusive doctor’s identity in an attempt to blend in and bide time before he can be rescued. It seemed like the perfect plan, until the town’s […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars vol. 1: The Destiny Path After the main “Star Wars” series wrapped up with issue #75 last year, it marked the end of an era for most of the ongoing titles in this line. No longer were they going to be spent exploring the post-”A New Hope” era, the time had […]
There are signs that this series might be getting back to its old, nasty self. They’re after the wrap-up of the “Master Swordsman” arc, though. The finish to that storyline serves up some decent action as Kuroko and Kurono’s duel through the ancient castle takes a fiery turn thanks to the former’s shenanigans. While the […]
I complain a lot about how long Kentaro Miura takes between volumes of “Berserk” on this blog. However, Rei Hiroe’s lack of output on “Black Lagoon” makes Miura look as prolific as a Jump artist with a hit series. Vol. 9 of “Black Lagoon” was published here in July 2010, vol. 10 in April 2015, […]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from this world of Families, their Lazarii, the Serfs which support them, and the Waste which are below all. This return is… surprisingly upbeat coming after vol. 6 which had Forever and company suffering a brutal defeat at the hands of the Russian Lazarus, the Zmey, in addition […]
Gil is a recently widowed space trucker who’s taken his son, Kadyn, on his latest job: Hauling a lot of relics from a recently closed museum across the cosmos. Kadyn’s still sad over the death of his mother and the boredom of this trip isn’t helping. That is, until a giant space eel-shark monster shows […]