Manga and Comic Reviews
This is a volume of “Delicious in Dungeon” where the emphasis is on the plot and characters rather than the dishes created from defeated monsters. Sounds like kind of a mistake, doesn’t it? If you’re like me and the series has had you engrossed since the first volume then chances are you’ve got some investment […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Steeple All of the books from Dark Horse that I was considering for this month involved potential. Not so much that I was expecting greatness from them, but that they had the potential for that or just to surprise me. So why does “Steeple” get this spot? Because of all the things I’ve […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: Last Knight on Earth HC It’s the future, and do you know where your Batman is? Bruce Wayne doesn’t. He’s just woken up in Arkham Asylum without a sign that he’s ever been Batman. The world outside Arkham appears to be all the worse off for it as the Earth of the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Outer Darkness/Chew #1 (of 3) “Chew” is no stranger to odd crossovers, having already done one with supernatural rural noir “Revival.” The catch this time is that the series is crossing over space, time, and genre to mash up in some way with creator John Layman’s current series “Outer Darkness.” As to how […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men: Grand Design Omnibus The first three hundred issues of “X-Men” are unique among Marvel comics of that length in the sense that the majority of them were written by one person: Chris Claremont. Even then there’s a lot of sprawl in his run and that’s even before you try to reconcile it […]
The descriptive text on the back of this volume says, “Ryoko Kui, the master storyteller behind the beloved manga series Delicious in Dungeon, pens seven brand-new tales that will delight fantasy fans and manga devotees equally.” Half of that sentence is unimpeachable gospel. The other half is a real case of Your Mileage May Vary. […]
The last time I reviewed a volume of this title, I mentioned that Andrea Sorrentino’s art was what really made this series. That continues to be true here in vol. 3 as we follow a couple of different plot threads there. The first and longest of them involves one of the posse who went to […]
In case you were thinking that the appearance of Galactus on Earth, and Doom’s proclamation that he would be the one to save Earth from the Devourer this time, was some kind of cute interruption for the Thing’s wedding that would be quickly handwaved away, you were wrong. “Herald of Doom” indeed has two of […]
Some people think that Spider-Man works best as a teen hero and that letting him grow up in the Marvel Universe was a mistake. Writer Chip Zdarsky may or may not be one of them, but he’s the only writer who thought to ask, “What if Spider-Man grew up along with us over the years?” […]
We get the finale of the Kanto Tournament in this volume and the winner shouldn’t surprise you. Meguru turned the tide at the end of vol. 10 and he continues to press his advantage as he gets into the zone against Muroi. Yet the fact that he wins isn’t the most interesting thing about the […]