Manga and Comic Reviews
Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama’s boss, Reigen, may be an unscrupulous exorcist with no real psychic powers to speak of, but he’s got one real redeeming feature. Which would be the fact that he does good by his sole employee and tries to instill in him a sense of morality about how he uses his powers. Not […]
Luna Brewster is troubled. Troubled in a way that’s dangerous for her and those around her. She’s visions of hurting those closest to her and hears a voice that tells her to do these things. Luna has kept all this from her parents and the well-meaning school counselor who’s dealing with her own issues as […]
John Lynch travelling across America to warn the subjects of genetic experiments performed on them while he was director of International Operation. That was the general gist of the solicitations for the issues collected in these volumes. Anyone familiar with the Wildstorm Universe who read them, however, could easily see that this was going to […]
So I looked at the titles in my “to review” stack and realized that some of them have been there for quite some time. In fact, it’s been over a month since I made a bulk order of new comics. Time to fix that, but what to do about the stuff I’ve been wanting to […]
This is a volume of two halves, one of which is considerably more problematic than the other. The first half introduces us to another group of survivors living out of an office building and led by the implausibly charismatic Asada. He’s set up his own cult of personality called Asada-ism which he wants to spread […]
The series that ranked as my “Best of 2018” comes around for its latest volume and things couldn’t be better, right? Not quite. Things start off promisingly enough with a flashback to better, but still very murderous, days for Kretchmeyer back home and in Baltimore before segueing into the team-up from hell. That’d be the […]
I talked about the first volume of this series in the “On Horror” podcast. The short version is that while this horror-infused “Hulk” title isn’t scary, writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennett are still doing great, creative work best evidenced by one of its key revelations towards the end. That would be the fact […]
As the latest volume in Tom King’s “Batman” run, there’s not a whole lot of the title character written by the writer in it. Three issues from the main series and a four-page short from the “Secret Files.” That’s it. In fact, this is the first volume where a writer other than King, Tom Taylor, […]
Kelly Thompson writing both Hawkeyes again with Gwenpool, Quentin Quire, and America Chavez in tow, and Stefano Caselli providing the art! SOLD! …aaand it’s gone. That’s right, this latest incarnation of “West Coast Avengers” is a lame duck with its first volume after having been given the axe with issue #10. Which is TERRIBLE since […]
We’ve known for quite some time that the tendrils of the Nanyang Alliance under Sojo Levan Fu have infiltrated the Federation and Zeon forces. What this volume makes abundantly clear is just how for that infiltration extends. Things start off in a lighthearted fashion with the Federation forces headed towards some down time after successfully […]