Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Count Crowley vol. 3: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter After saying that I was interested in checking this series out, I finally got around to reading the previous two volumes. They turned out to actually be pretty good, with the second volume even improving on the first a bit. It also left off on […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: G.O.D.S. What happens when The Powers That Be meet The Natural Order Of Things? They get a much-hyped lead-in across multiple titles from an A-List creative team whose series only lasts eight issues before it gets canned. “G.O.D.S.” represented writer Jonathan Hickman’s efforts to redefine the magical corner of the Marvel Universe and […]
Vol. 16 left off with Nene and Niko descending into the mindspace shared by Clarion and Phobos after their battle shifted from the physical plane to cyberspace. We don’t catch up with them right away as we’ve also got to check in with Robert as he tells us about his situation in a big ol’ […]
This series had a pretty good run last year, so it’s a little disappointing to see it fumble the epilogue of the previous arc. The basics are there in that we find out what happened to Mob, his friends, and the members of Claw after the story’s explosive climax, but it all flows awkwardly together. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rock Candy Mountain Complete This series passed me right by when it came out because its creator wasn’t on my radar at all. Seven years later and I now look forward to whatever writer/artist Kyle Starks does next. Looking at the solicitation for this collection of the entire eight-issue series, it’s clear that […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC vs. Marvel Omnibus Believe it or not, DC and Marvel heroes used to meet up on a fairly regular basis before relations froze over at the start of the Joe Quesada/Bill Jemas era at Marvel. First, Spider-Man met Superman, then the X-Men met the Teen Titans, and before you knew it Batman […]
I know it’s very out of season to talk about an anthology with this title, but it didn’t come back into stock (at a discount) with one of my preferred online retailers until recently. Still, you could argue that it’s always the season for a collection of stories from Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Becky Cloonan, […]
You could boil my review of vol. 1 down to me saying, “The anime was better.” It didn’t mean that volume was bad, but it was still true. That continues to be the case for vol. 2 of this series as Bocchi angsts about not hanging out with her bandmates during summer vacation, dreads performing […]
Vol. 9 concluded with Mizuho in the clutches of the remnants of the School of Wave Wisdom cult while Minare and Madoka were setting off to rescue her. The latter was even serious enough about this to bring her rifle along. Things pick up in vol. 10 as we find out that Mizuho is more […]
It’s not easy being Christopher “Peacemaker” Smith these days. Sure, he may have earned his release from the Suicide Squad, but his former comrades think he’s a degenerate weirdo and don’t want to hang out with him. He doesn’t have any friends, and the only normal interactions he has with the public involve his surprisingly […]