Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra vol. 7 — A Rogue’s End So it turns out that this is the final volume of Doctor Chelli Aphra’s adventures. The return of her deadliest adversary/employer makes a certain amount of sense (even if it was a dick move on Marvel’s part to spoil it in the solicitations), […]
The Stephen King vibes are still strong with this second volume as more Stand users show up around the small town of Morioh — all of them with (initially) malicious plans in mind for our protagonists. Take small-time crook Tamami who tries to wrangle Koichi into giving him 500,000 yen after the little squirt runs […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Lazarus vol. 6: Risen I Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s dystopian sci-fi action/drama made its long-awaited return to the realm of serialized comics earlier this year in a new quarterly format. The idea was that this new schedule would allow the creators to deliver the series on a more consistent basis compared with […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman: Heroes #1 This is a one-shot featuring a stellar cast of creators: Bendis, Greg Rucka, Matt Fraction and Jody Houser share writing duties, while Kevin Maguire, Steve Lieber, Mike Perkins, and more provide the art. So what kind of event would bring all these creators together? Nothing more than exploring the fallout […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus vol. 5 Longtime readers should not be surprised to see this volume here. At all. For those of you who’ve joined us more recently, “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” is one of the best manga published by Dark Horse. It’s about a group of unemployable college students […]
The first seventy-two pages of this volume have something you don’t normally see a lot of in manga: COLOR. Artist Kenji Tsuruta painted these pages himself and they look pretty great. It’s a lush vision of a rural mountain area which has an inn and a pond nearby. It’s by this pond that Atsushi, who […]
Okay, so it’s been… *goes to check the publication date on vol. 2* TEN YEARS since the last volume of this series was published?! I guess I should be glad that only two volumes were published before now. If more had been released, and then we’d been hit with a ten-year gap between volumes, I’d […]
Here it is, folks: The storyline that led to Tom King getting kicked off “Batman.” Don’t worry about him too much. He’ll be finishing his storyline in the “Batman/Catwoman” maxiseries with his “Sheriff of Babylon” and “Mister Miracle” collaborator, Mitch Gerads. It’ll still be short of the 100-issue run that he had planned to have […]
The first two volumes of this series were good, fun riffs on the kind of sword and sorcery action made famous by “Conan.” This one digs a bit deeper into the title character and his world as we start by finding out that the death of Zhaania in the previous volume really got to him. […]
Big Red’s name may be in the title, but he’s almost an afterthought in this volume. That’s because it’s all about exploring what else was going on with the B.P.R.D. during his ill-fated trip to Mexico. Margaret is busy running the day-to-day operations of the organization while Professor Bruttenholm has secrets kept from him by […]