Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Captain Momo’s Secret Base vol. 1 Dark Horse has been committed – COMMITTED, I say – to making mangaka Kenji Tsuruta a name to remember in the North American manga market. I say this because this is the third series of his that they’re publishing after “Wandering Island” and “Emanon.” It bears mentioning […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra vol. 7 – Dark Droids I wondered if something was up when I saw that this volume was collecting issues #32-40. That’s nine whole issues, which means that we’d be getting the post-”Spark Eternal” issues in addition to the ones that tie into the “Dark Droids” event. That seemed […]
The Second Battle of Goryokaku got underway in the previous volume as this series reached its climax. It was a great example of this title’s ability to mix intense action, compelling drama, and wacky humor as the stakes kept getting higher with each new twist. It wasn’t enough that Tsurumi showed up at the site […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Feral #1 “Stray Dogs” was an out-of-left-field hit for writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner. It was so successful that, while the miniseries reached a definitive end, they published a two-issue anthology of stories to fill out more (mostly inessential) backstory for its canine cast. Now the two creators are back with […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Poison Ivy vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle “Poison Ivy” by writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara was originally greenlit as a six-issue miniseries and conventional wisdom dictated that you wouldn’t have been wrong to bet against it being just that. A one-off miniseries by some respected creators who would move on […]
The cover to this volume has a happy-looking Joan in a familiar housewife getup that suggests a veneer of domestic normalcy. Which doesn’t come through at all because it also shows that she’s poisoned her husband and two sons while saying, “Hello again! My name is Joan Peterson… and I probably love my family!” It […]
X-Statix now know what their former leader, Zeitgeist, is up to. He’s been causing gleeful chaos across the nation all in the name of building up his social media presence. Why? For the fortune? For the fame? For the lulz? No, for the followers. This is because he’s stolen a page from the Book of […]
The “Silver Scent” arc which started at the end of the previous volume involved a young girl murdering a bunch of thugs after coming into contact with Celine “The Perfumer” Argente. So far, so standard for “Murcielago.” Things quickly escalate after it’s revealed that she’s not the only criminal to have entered Japan just now. […]
When we last saw Jerri Bartman, she was settling into her role as Count Crowley, host of the Friday Night Scream Feature show on her family’s local network. She had also just killed a zombie in her brother’s office and was that much closer to becoming appointed as the new monster hunter around town. This […]
That subtitle makes this miniseries sound more intimidating than it actually is. “A Tale of the Shrouded College” gives you the impression that you’re buying into a story that’s larger than the one being told here. I can tell you that’s not the case as its creator, writer Charles Soule, states at the end of […]