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Real vol. 16

Nomiya, Takahashi, and Kiyohara continue to plug away at life in this volume.  Nomiya is more determined than ever to become a pro basketball player, but his skills still need major polishing.  Fortunately he’s got plenty of friends to help him out.  Takahashi is getting ready to leave the rehab facility and has a place […]

Free Planet vol. 1

Aubrey Sitterson is a writer who’s been knocking around the fringes for a while now doing series that either haven’t had a whole lot of success, or that should’ve had more success than they did.  The two “No One Left to Fight” miniseries I’ve talked about before definitely fall into that category and I’ve been […]

Monstress vol. 10: Hollow Gods

It’s standard issue for things to be bad in Maika Halfwolf’s life.  Yet, the last time we saw her, things were especially dire.  That’s because she, and anyone else who had touched the mask of the Shaman-Empress had been possessed by another member of Zinn’s race:  The Defiled.  Which means that, as this volume opens, […]

Dracula: Book Two — The Brides

Having found himself relegated to Earth after falling out of favor with Satan, Dracula has now taken up root in his old homeland of Transylvania.  He lords over the gypsy folk in the old castle above their town while feeding on the unwary as necessary.  Yet the tedium of rule soon begins to gnaw at […]

X-Men: Before the Age of Revelation

In case you haven’t heard, the entire “X-Men” line underwent a three-month event called “Age of Revelation” at the end of last year.  It involved sixteen(!) different three-issue miniseries plus prologue, opening, and closing issues that showed us what the world was like after Apocalypse’s Heir, Doug Ramsey – formerly known as  Cypher, now known […]

One-Punch Man vol. 32

At the end of vol. 31, humanity was facing off against not one, but two Threat Level:  Unknowns.  By the end of the first chapter, however, they’re only facing off against one.  Who could have taken out such a threat in the space of 46 pages?  None other than the title character himself who actually […]