Manga and Comic Reviews
This is the kind of story I’d begin with a “spoiler warning” but that feels kind of unnecessary here. Vol. 7 was called “The Book of Love” and with this volume being the “The Book of Life,” well… even if you hadn’t read to the end of the previous volume, you could probably guess what’s […]
Roy Livingston is finally going to make something of himself. This wannabe rocker turned pet store manager is going to be the first person to set foot on Mars. It turns out that Roy’s terminal and inoperable Stage 4 Cancer is of a special variety that doesn’t do well in space. Which makes him the […]
Inio Asano is one of those creators who has done such interesting work in the past that I’m always up for checking out what he’s done next. In addressing post-college twentysomething angst in “Solanin,” charting a young boy’s troubled development through a clever visual metaphor in “Goodnight Punpun,” showing us the dehumanizing effects of life […]
How the hell does Lee Harvey Oswald wind up as the head of a government agency dedicated to shaping the collective belief of humanity in its favor? This is something that has been answered previously, but without explaining the big thing about the man’s history. You know, the thing that happened in Dallas on November […]
General Zod was once Superman’s fiercest foe, ready to fight him tooth and nail for the legacy of their homeworld Krypton. That’s changed in recent years as the warrior now appears to have everything he could want: A wife, a son, his own House,a planet to rule over – New Kandor, and an army to […]
I was amenable to seeing more adventures of Tariq Geiger after his first, but not really passionate about it. Which is a good thing because then I’d probably be upset that this second volume arrived three years after the first. As it is, I’m able to pick up and read “Geiger” vol. 2 without any […]
Frieren is back… in time! After touching that monument at the end of vol. 11, the elven mage has found herself transported back to the time when she was traveling with the party that eventually defeated the Demon Lord. Eisen is in his prime, while Heiter and (more importantly) Himmel are still alive. Time travel […]
The titular quest being to save the ruined land from the machinations of Briar’s surviving fairy godmother, Gudrid. At her side are the Norrish (Orcish) Spider, witch-in training Roop, and the undead skeleton Captain Bly and they… have no real idea how to stop her. So they’re doing odd jobs until they figure it out. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spectators HC The last time writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Niko Henrichon teamed up was nearly two decades ago when they gave us “Pride of Baghdad.” That was a serious, metaphorical war story which had a real gut-punch of an end. Now they’re back with something completely different in “Spectators” which is […]
[No podcast this week due to unavoidable logistics issues. That said, I will be able to promise you Dick this time next week.] Above-the-Board Recommendation(s): Absolute Batman vol. 1: The Zoo Absolute Superman vol. 1: Last Dust of Krypton Absolute Wonder Woman vol. 1: The Last Amazon As if it could be anything else this […]