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Lazarus vol. 6

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 […]

Sea of Stars vol. 1

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 […]

Golden Kamuy vol. 13

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 […]

Die vol. 2: Split the Party

“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 […]

Star Wars: Target Vader

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 […]

Ooku vol. 16

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 […]

Batman vol. 11: The Fall and the Fallen

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 […]