Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
A while back I called out one volume of this series for being somewhat homophobic in the way that it stereotyped the members of a same-sex couple. Vol. 13 starts off by making amends for that by doing whatever the opposite of homophobic is as Sugimoto and the rest of his crew fight some blind […]
“Don’t Split the Party” was the lesson learned by one RPG-centric comic, but Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans aren’t inclined to follow the rules. Which is why vol. 2 starts off with Ash, Matt, Angela, and the newly-Fallen Sol stuck in the Eternal Prussian-occupied ruins of Glass Town, while Izzy and Chuck are clear on […]
Tough-as-nails cyborg bounty hunter Beilert Valance made his debut back in the 80’s when Marvel originally published “Star Wars” comics. Writer Robbie Thompson was apparently so taken with this character (or someone at Marvel who loved the character and knew where Thompson buries the bodies) that he bought the character back in the pages of […]
Things haven’t been going well for Robbie Reyes, the Ghost Rider. After losing control of his car, the Hell Charger, he wants to be done with this whole Spirit of Vengeance business. Good thing that he’s a member of the Avengers, who can not only pool their talents to get him out of this mess, […]
When this fourth volume was announced, it came with word that it was going to be Alan Moore’s final work in comics. The writer’s official reason was that he didn’t want to start repeating himself, which is fair enough. Unspoken, I would think, would be his utter disgust at how he’s been treated over the […]
Look at that cover. You can almost feel the smugness radiating off of it. No doubt some of it is left over from vol. 15’s cliffhanger revelation that Shogun Iemochi’s new husband, Prince Kazu, is actually a woman. It read like another kick in the shins at the time, because things have been going bad […]
The space opera action continues in this volume and shifts to a new setting: Earth. There’s still some business to take care of in Empire-space, however, as Emperor N’Jadaka makes his move to crush the Maroons once and for all. Unfortunately he gets more than he bargained for, and his failure allows T’Challa to finally […]
After seven issues of one shots that dodged the main story (though most were still pretty good on their own terms), vol. 11 starts off with the issue I’m sure everyone was waiting for! Batman breaks out of the dreaming machine and walks through Arkham beating up everyone in his way. It’s a genuinely cathartic […]