Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Wicked + The Divine vol. 9: Okay Yes, Kieron Gillen does seem to find his way up here quite frequently. It was honestly a tough choice this month between this and… well, it probably won’t be too hard to guess what other title I was considering for this spot when you start […]
The first volume of mangaka Shuzo Oshimi’s latest look at how the life of a milquetoast male is upended by an unconventional female didn’t get off to the best of starts in my opinion. There was some drama to be had in seeing how shut-in Isao Komori wound up in the body of high school […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Menace Revealed vol. 2 It’s not that there isn’t anything uninteresting in these solicitations. It’s just that I don’t feel like giving this spot to the latest round of events, stunts, and next-volumes-of-series-I’m-reading that I’m expecting to be “good” rather than “great.” Which is why I’m giving […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: I Am A Hero Omnibus vol. 11 They made it. Well, not yet as something could go wrong between now and this final volume’s scheduled release in October. You know, like an actual zombie apocalypse as depicted in this series. Assuming that doesn’t happen then we’ll all be able to read the final […]
It was Fanime’s 25th Anniversary this year and the overall experience was… still really great. Aside from a nice art gallery showcasing memorabilia for years past and the “Silver Anniversary” tag plastered on banners and various memorabilia, there wasn’t a big emphasis on celebrating the occasion itself. Fanime 2019 was another awesome experience that was […]
If nothing else, I have to give “Gantz: G” this: It has managed to crawl its way up from the creative bankruptcy of vol. 1 to display something resembling competence in its third and final volume. We lose no time picking up from vol. 2 and the death of Fujimoto at the hands of the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: WildCATs #1 (of 6) This shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been reading this blog for any length of time. Warren Ellis may be wrapping up “The Wild Storm” in a few months, but he’s not done with his new take on the Wildstorm Universe. We were already reintroduced to the new Wild Covert Action […]
Logan is back! And his first order of business is taking out the evil organization known as Soteira whose leader, Persephone, has manipulated his death to their advantage. Writer Charles Soule pretty much plays it straight here, giving us a(n only mildly) amnesiac Wolverine who has to reconnect with his lost memories in a way […]
Readers with long memories (or ones with the ability to click this link and scroll to the bottom of the page) may recall that I was originally planning to make a podcast out of this volume. If the fact that you’re reading my review of it now suggests that something has gone wrong, well, it […]
We got a lot of little indications in the previous volume that things were not so great in the Commonwealth. What made them interesting, however, was that it wasn’t clear whether or not they were indications that the largest community we’ve seen in the series yet was actually a dystopia or just a lot closer […]