Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Flash vol. 1: Strange Attractor Simon Spurrier and Mainstream Superhero Comics haven’t always been a great fit. Marvel gets a lot of credit for giving the man multiple miniseries and ongoing titles to work with, and while they were generally quite good, his most successful stint came nearly a decade ago with […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Transformers vol. 1: Robots in Disguise As with any fictional, corporate-owned universe my interest in the comic titles they’re putting out hinges on the talent involved. Which is why I’ll be picking up this volume when it arrives in May as it’s coming from one of the best artists in the business – […]
I had figured “Get Grayson” was the next volume in writer Tom Taylor’s run on “Nightwing,” until I saw this. “Fear State” collects the next three issues of his run, the “Nightwing” annual, and a Christmas-themed story from “Batman: Urban Legends” from writer Tini Howard. So how is it? Every bit as good as you’d […]
For an orphan ward of the church living in 15th-Century Europe, Rafal looks like he has it made. He’s the brightest of his Father’s students and will be going away to university to study theology in the near future. So the fact that a former heretic named Hubert will be staying at his place, because […]
Demonic possession in suburbia. A restless spirit haunting a rural graveyard. A rookie agent hoping to spot his first cryptid. Assaults from a possessed tiger in India. Reports about a haunted sawmill in Oregon. A seance to contact the spirit of a devil-worshipper. These are the things that Hellboy, his father Trevor Bruttenholm, and various […]
“I, Vampire” Andrew Bennett has braved the sunlight to bring an urgent message to the Justice League. That message being that vampires are coming out of the shadows to take over the world, and they’ve started with the Injustice League. Now the DCU faces a crisis without Lex Luthor, but with all of his fellow […]
One of the reasons the “Best of 2023” podcast took so long to arrive this year was because of this graphic novel. It took a while to make its way to me from the source that I ordered it from and I didn’t want to start on the list until I had time to read […]
Midori Fukada, Ernie Comstock, and Xander Waterford all have one thing in common: They’re in actual, literal HELL right now. Whether or not they belong there depends on who you ask, but they’re trying to make the best of their current situation. Which involves robbing one of the biggest, baddest demon lords for one of […]
We got our first look at Seiichi’s post-juvenile incarceration/adult life in the previous volume and it was every bit the feel-bad experience you’d expect it to be. Not content with saddling his protagonist with depression and a suicidal mindset, mangaka Shuzo Oshimi also had him reunite with his mother there as well. Only, she’s not […]
Sprout grew up far from prying eyes alongside her grandfather, a doomsday prepper who saw too many bad things in the Vietnam War and has been living with them ever since. When the people responsible for one of those bad things decides to take him out, she follows them to New York for vengeance. While […]