Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: Detective Comics by Tom Taylor vol. 1 – Mercy of the Father Gotham City is being stalked by a serial killer, which means that it must be a day that ends in a “y.” What sets this one apart from all the others is that they’re killing teens, juvenile delinquents, and young […]
Three looters come across a derelict spaceship in the far future and decide to see what’s inside. They immediately come across a journal from a young student named Kazuma. He was one member of a class that was going on a field trip until their ship was struck by an outside force and damaged beyond […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku If I’m being honest, this collection deserves this spot simply for being a collection of all three “Battle of Jakku” miniseries. Though this was clearly meant to be a twelve-issue maxiseries, Marvel published it weekly as three four-part miniseries: “Insurgency Rising,” “Republic Under Siege,” and “Last Stand.” […]
The Joker is up to his old tricks again, and more of Gotham’s mob bosses are dead as a result. While the Clown Prince of Crime thinks that this will clear the way for him and some of his fellow supervillains to rule Gotham once more, they’re not having it. The likes of Two-Face, the […]
The crew of the Defiant’s bounty hunting days are behind them, and they’re ready to be done with each other after how it all turned out. All they have to do is deliver their quarries to Starbase 99 and they can go their separate ways. Once they arrive at the decrepit space station (which is […]
The monster is still out there, but now Asa has more important concerns. Like attending her friend Yone’s idol audition in front of some industry executives. Her manager, Noro, may have come off like a two-bit hustler before, but he’s got a plan to ensure “Marilyn Nomajin” makes an impression here to become the next […]
Vol. 2 left off with the promise of a plan just so crazy it might work: Nathan Bright was going to go undercover as Ian Black – the terrorist he used to be – in order to help the Earth government take out Jenner, the leader of the terrorist organization known as the Sword of […]
As far as supervillain plans go, Brother Eternity’s is a straightforward one: Establish a religious cult on Earth to give him a power base and then leverage it to stage an expedition to the Saturn moon of Titan. Once there, speak words of power and unleash the Necrostar into the Solar System. After that: Profit. […]
Hope is the daughter who uses her army-trained sniper skills for drugs. Greta is the mother who traded away her shot at astronaut glory only to lose her husband instead. George is the grandfather who has spent a lifetime of killing for his country with little to show for it. The members of this family […]
Pale Snake is on the move! After spending most of vol. 5 in the background, he emerges to seize the baby that Joleyne and Anastasia are protecting out in the swamps. He’ll have to find them first, however, and even when he does he’ll still have to throw down with the wielder of Stone Ocean […]