Manga and Comic Reviews
The circus has come to town and snared everyone in its diabolical grasp. Everyone except Spring Seasons (and her gloomy sister Winter) who sees the clowns running it for the malevolent spirits they are. Unfortunately for her, they’re busy offering up everyone the chance to get lost in their heart’s desires by reflecting them in […]
Eva is a psychiatrist with bipolar disorder who’s currently being evaluated by another shrink before her license can be reinstated. So it probably doesn’t help her case when she lets him know that she was around when a murder took place at her friend Penelope Montruous’ estate. The Montruoses are a dynasty of wine producers […]
Batman may have stopped the secret organization known as Elixir’s plans for Gotham, but they have a thing about loose ends. So when former GCPD detective turned private eye Harvey Bullock starts looking into them, they make sure he’s taken out of the picture – by taking him out of the country. Unfortunately for them, […]
It was one thing for Asa to get involved in the shenanigans relating to her friend Yone’s movie, but doing so managed to have her encounter the man who wrote her favorite song, River Etheridge. While she’s elated to find this out, Asa soon learns that he’s a deserter from the American forces currently fighting […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man: Long Way Home #1 (of 5) So, you may have heard that we’re getting a new “Spider-Man” movie in July. Marvel, always chasing the synergistic movie-to-comic tie-in, is putting out this new mini-series that takes place early on in Spidey’s career. So early that the Hulk and Punisher, the other featured characters […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Detective Comics by Tom Taylor vol. 3: The Courage That Kills Fear has always been one of Batman’s greatest weapons when it comes to his never-ending war on crime. However, what if everyone in Gotham City woke up one day without the ability to feel it? Would this turn it into a modern […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sacrificers vol. 4 Pigeon had a close encounter with one of the gods that rule his world in vol. 3. One that had them becoming allies instead of adversaries. As they look to take the fight to those in charge, his sister Beatrice has reluctantly thrown in her lot with Soluna – […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Powers 25 vol. 1 Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming are regarded as one of the best creative teams in comics and “Powers” is the reason for that. A series that fused a superhero setting with the police procedural, it frequently delivered on the promise of that setup for a very long time. Then […]
Because that’s the feeling you get when you pull up to the convention and get a text letting you know that something’s come up and your friends won’t be making it this year. It certainly put a damper on things as I walked over to the convention center, but there were at least some panels […]
“Absolute Batman” is a monstrous success by any modern American superhero comics standard. The first issue has gone through eleven printings, the first collection stormed the bestseller lists, and the first issue after the ones in this volume – the origin of the Absolute Joker sold over 300,000 copies. While you’d think that supervillain origin […]