Manga and Comic Reviews
The saga of the boys’ stint in the school’s prison finally comes to an end in this volume. It’s not a spoiler to say that their efforts to find evidence of the Shadow Student Council’s “Expel Boys Operation” is successful. But you’ll have to read the volume itself to find out how clothing switches, impersonations, […]
The good news here is that co-writers Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden followed through on my hope from the previous volume. We see a further thinning of the cast in this penultimate volume of “Baltimore” and a fleshing out of a couple of the existing members. Harish, the Indian soldier, and Kidd, the British smith, […]
It’s cute how the text on the back cover of this volume dances around the big twist in this newest volume of Steve Rogers’ adventures as Captain America. We’re told that “The original sentinel of liberty is back!” and is focused on rounding up the villains on the run from Pleasant Hill, taking down the […]
Two volumes in and I’m still not as engaged as I feel I should be with this series. Picking up from the ending of vol. 1, time travel is introduced as a major plot point as Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves thrust into the strange future of 2016 where they’re greeted by an adult […]
The last volume of “Black Science” marked a surprising turnaround. Instead of continuing to show how things got worse for its dimension-hopping travelers, things focused entirely on leader Grant McKay’s character and how he finally realized what he’s been doing wrong and how to make it right again. That trend continues in vol. 5 as […]
I believe I made my complete and total dislike of this title’s current villain, Harusada Tokugawa, honored mother of the shogun, pretty clear in my review of the previous volume. Re-reading said review, I regret more the fact that I used the word “power” three times in the space of two sentences than any of […]
Out of all the new characters introduced in “The Force Awakens” it probably makes the most sense to give Poe Dameron his own ongoing series. After all, “hotshot pilot for the Resistance” does offer up a wider variety of story possibilities than “growing up on Tatooine” and “growing up as a stormtrooper” (though, in the […]
As the villain in “Renew Your Vows,” Dan Slott’s “Spider-Man” contribution to “Secret Wars,” Regent wasn’t all that special. While it was interesting to see a villain with a power-hoarding gimmick like his amass enough power to take over the Marvel Universe, his main purpose in the story was to just be the big bad […]
The title to this series (as well as its first volume) is entirely appropriate considering the character’s origins. Originally an amalgamation of Gwen Stacey and Deadpool who showed up on the variant cover to “Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars” #2, the character image became quite popular with fans. But how do you turn such a thing […]
While I’ve enjoyed the previous two volumes of this series, I haven’t been entirely crazy about them. Though the love triangle at its core between jellyfish otaku Tsukimi, gorgeous cross-dresser Kuranosuke, and his straight-laced brother Shu is competently handled, there’s not a lot much new there. Even when you consider the crossdressing angle. Mangaka Akiko […]