Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Why did Daniel leave the Dreaming? For love, of course. The tragic story of his romance is told by “Sandman” veteran/survivor Rose Walker to a barely conscious Lucien in the hospital. It starts off with Rose having a chance encounter with Dream himself that could’ve led to a romance, except that she decided to give […]
Let me tell you a bit about how I arrange the manga side of my comics collection. There’s one series of shelves where everything is laid out front-to-back like you’d see in a bookstore. Another series of shelves has the volumes double-stacked: You can see half of the volumes on the shelf while the other […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: East of West vol. 10 Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s epic sci-fi western reaches the end of its road. The story of how Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, fell in love, had a kid, and paid dearly for these things. Oh, and he did it according to some religious […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme vol. 1 — Under the Knife When I heard that Mark Waid’s run on “Doctor Strange” was getting a relaunch, I was just glad to hear that he’d still be writing this series. Sure the “Surgeon Supreme” subtitle sounded a little goofy, but he was a surgeon at one […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Harrow County Omnibus vol. 1 I was always curious about this series as I saw new issues and volumes offered month after month in these solicitations. While Cullen Bunn is a decent writer and Tyler Crook is a great artist, the series never quite captured enough of my attention to pick it up. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Generation One (One-Shot) Guess what? The DCU is getting rebooted again. Well, maybe reboot is too strong a word. “Continued” may be a better one based on what I’ve heard is planned for it. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and a lot of other current heroes are either getting aged up, retired, or both […]
The three issues actually written by Waid in this volume are arguably the best he’s offered up on his run so far. “Strange, Visitor” has the Doctor barging into a home in Kansas to stop a demonic invasion while the parents inside try to keep up with him and his arrogance. It’s a fast-paced tale […]