Manga and Comic Reviews
Sully and Ethan are former army veterans who served their country and paid the price for it. In Sully’s case that means he was left with a traumatic brain injury and the mental instability that comes with it. Ethan, on the other hand, lost his leg and now experiences near-constant pain as a result of […]
When Richard Corben passed away in December 2020, I was aware he was considered to be a legend in the comics industry. That said, my appreciation of him came from his latter-day work with DC (“Hellblazer: Hard Time”), Marvel (“Startling Stories: Banner,” “Cage”), and, of course, Dark Horse (“Hellboy: Makoma, The Crooked Man, and House […]
Vol. 7 in this series did something no other volume had before: End on a cliffhanger. Kippa had forced her way into Maika’s mind, while the latter’s awakened body was inflicting all sorts of chaos in the real world, in order to repair the damage done there. That was a hopeful note to end on […]
Much like “Bocchi the Rock,” this is another series that I decided to start reading after I watched the anime adaptation earlier this year. The adaptation was much-hyped as it was based on the manga written by “Kaguya-sama’s” Aka Akasaka and was going to feature a 90-minute premiere. While I was spoiled for the premiere’s […]
The back half of this volume is more or less what you’d expect from this series. There’s a one-off where Loid’s spymaster boss has to foil an attack on a VIP while imparting a lesson about the subjective nature of truth to one of her subordinates. Anya also gets to spend some time with the […]
The Joker is running amok in Gotham and Batman is chasing after him. Sounds like your average Tuesday night in the city, right? Well, when the Caped Crusader catches up with him, he finds a feral, super-strong creature with sharp teeth that bears only a superficial resemblance to the Clown Prince of Crime. What’s going […]
Christopher Chance makes a living by impersonating people who’ve been targeted for murder. His latest job has him taking the identity of someone who a lot of people in the DC Universe would like to see dead: Lex Luthor. While he has no problem foiling the main assassination plot, the backup plan to get Luthor […]
The “intervention” Aphra’s friends staged for her at the end of the last volume goes about as well as you’d expect here. Which is why they’re left floating in space and the Spark-possessed Aphra is off to parts unknown not long after. Fortunately the real Aphra is still around, trapped in her own mind but […]
In this volume, Asa Asada and Mister Kasuga take to the skies again against the kaiju that’s menacing Japan. While government men in a boardroom angst about what its presence means for the country – will America step in to pacify it with nukes – they’re all about bringing the fight to it. Even if […]
We all know the story of Simon Spurrier’s run on “Hellblazer.” That it was canceled after a year even though the writer still had plans for John Constantine’s further adventures (in America). While he’s getting a chance to resume that run with the forthcoming “Dead in America” miniseries, the writer wasn’t going to let this […]