Manga and Comic Reviews
Wow. Who remembers “Mouse Guard?” When it started back in the aughts, David Petersen’s feudal fantasy series – with mice – looked like it could be the next big thing with all of the acclaim and positive word of mouth the first three volumes garnered. These volumes weren’t easy to produce, however, as the third […]
New mutants Melee, Bronze, and Axo are all cool with being trained by Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, and Bobby Drake to hone their mutant gifts. That won’t always pay the bills, however, so when a group internship opens up at Verate, the home of the social media app that uses people’s personal information to help […]
Land and Ubel may be First Class Mages, but they’ve been tasked with doing some regular old spycraft in order to get information on an assassination plot to take out the leader of the Continental Mage Association’s leader, Serie. That doesn’t mean they won’t have to rely on their magic-using skills, especially once the Empire’s […]
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 – […]