Manga and Comic Reviews
Last time, the series took a volume-length detour to follow (really) young Jonathan Harker’s trip through the Transylvanian countryside to meet with Count Dracula on behalf of the Whitby School. What he found there was the cutest and fluffiest version of the Count yet put to page. Vol. 5 picks up from the end of […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly Billed as vol. 10 in Dark Horse’s series of comics based on “The Witcher” games – vol. 3 of the omnibus collecting the previous ones is also solicited here – it’s also the first one I’m planning to buy. Not because these have a bad reputation […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel Knights: The World to Come HC The Black Panther, T’Challa, is dead, but who will succeed him as the King of Wakanda? That the claim is made by his son Ketema seems reasonable enough, except for one thing: Ketema is white! How the hell did something like this happen? I don’t doubt […]
The Jonado Trust was left a shambles after the events of the first volume, but its former EN.VOI, Joy and Hampton, the EN.VOI living in her head, are doing all right for themselves. Joy’s family has had to decamp to the Peachtree Trust, but they’re making do even as its leader is secretly trying to […]
I may be warming up to writer Deniz Camp’s superhero work (slightly), but his creator-owned stuff is another matter. His breakout miniseries at Image, “20th Century Men” with artist Stipan Moran, was a boring and disappointing take on Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan that wound up being the worst thing I read that year. Still, the […]
Not only did they not fix the world at the end of vol. 1, but the Ultimates wound up needing a lot of fixing themselves – Iron Lad chief among them. So after taking some time to get their heads back on straight, they’re back in the fight in all of its myriad forms. From […]
Fifty-seven. That’s how many victims the Murder-Hole Killer had before they disappeared. It’s a state record, and one that’s in danger of being broken by two current serial killers. There’s the Ladykiller, who has forty-one kills to his name, and the Home Invader, who’s at forty-two. Which one gets there first is anybody’s guess; however, […]
Marshall Ward is now Radiant Black – full-time – in the wake of the “Catalyst War.” What does that mean for him? He’s now doing superheroing full time along with trying to find a new girlfriend and paying the bills as he hangs out with Eva, a.k.a. Radiant Pink, in the apartment they share. The […]
Two years ago, magic became a thing again and Robin Grant, a scientist at the Institute for Magic, is doing her best to try and understand it. For both the good of the world at large, and for her immediate family which includes her father-in-law, her two sons, and her impaired daughter, Tre. It’s Tre […]
The title character is part of an elite squad working for a corporate entity in the near future where these kinds of organizations call the shots. It’s the job of Madi and her team to take down potential threats to it using cyberwarfare and actual warfare. After a recent job winds up leaving them paid, […]