Manga and Comic Reviews
Vol. 5 ended with the revelation that Doctor Doom was now going to have a role to play in this storyline about Thanos fighting Odin’s father Bor in the past. What were they fighting over? The power of the mysterious Black Infinity Stone. Doom wants this power for himself, of course, as he’s now looking […]
Miyuki has the money. He’s got the plan. He’s got the friends needed to carry it out. Now all he needs to do is execute it… ON HIS BIKE! Or maybe not since his friends tell him at the start that he should just take a cab to the first stop on his plan to […]
Charles Soule and Ryan Browne have been working independently and together in the comics industry for a while now. They’ve produced some good comics together and independently over the years, but neither has had what you would call a breakout success. By that I mean a series that everyone starts talking about, that generates multiple […]
I wasn’t quite sold on the first volume of this new series from writer Donny Cates and artist Ryan Stegman. While the writer has shown in the past that he’s usually very good about grounding fantastical situations in relatable human concerns, his efforts in vol. 1 didn’t really connect. Stegman may have delivered some great […]
Duggan touches upon another story idea set up by Jonathan Hickman in this volume. Specifically, what happened to the Brood after Broo ate the King Egg and became their leader? He’s been having them feed upon bad people in the cosmos to sate their bloodlust, but that doesn’t exactly square with the sight of a […]
It’s been a few years, but Dark Horse has delivered the follow-up, and possibly concluding chapter, to mangaka Kenji Tsuruta’s adaptation of writer Shinji Kajio’s stories. After a brief interlude in 1980, the first arc in the volume picks up in 1988 with the title character, who has the knowledge of all of her past […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: The Adventures Continue vol. 3 “Batman: The Animated Series” did end after 109 episodes, but it didn’t really have a proper ending. Writers Paul Dini and Alan Burnett look to rectify that here with this final volume of “The Adventures Continue.” While it’s safe to say that this conclusion isn’t going to […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Usagi Yojimbo Saga: Legends Dark Horse’s omnibus reprinting of everything “Usagi Yojimbo” finally reaches the stuff that’s not directly part of the ongoing series. I’m talking about the first three “Space Usagi” stories, the end-of-the-saga miniseries “Senso,” the color OGN “Yokai” and the color short “Gagged.” All of that is collected here along […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immortal Thor vol. 1: All Weather Turns to Storm It’s nothing new for Marvel to put the adjective of a successful series in front of another title that was otherwise unrelated to it. Witness “Immortal X-Men” following in the wake of “Immortal Hulk.” It’s much less common for them to append that adjective […]
Image takes a cue from Dark Horse and stops indicating cover prices for everything solicited this month. How much longer until Marvel and DC follow suit? Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Weather Man vol. 3 #1 (of 7) This has been a long time coming. Vol. 2 of the series ended on a cliffhanger as Nathan Bright, […]