Manga and Comic Reviews
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, […]
In this volume, Anya’s actions indirectly cause the deaths of two people. They were both thugs who were trying to kill the family that Yor has been trying to protect during this arc. Which makes it all okay, right? Extremely dubious involvement of an elementary schooler in a battle of assassins aside this volume is […]
Who is Hajime “Hellmaster” Damemaru? That’s the question Shimada Death wants to answer in this volume. So she pursues the only rational course of action to find out: Hooking up his shadow-ified body to the brain of an ancient decaying organism in Darknest in the hopes of getting a look inside. Shimada and Zaha do […]
She may be one of the greatest mages of the modern age, but Frieren will never be a First-Class Mage by the Continental Magic Association’s (read: Serie’s) standards. So it’s a good thing that Fern has what it takes, along with no lasting enmity between her and her judge. She’s not alone in passing the […]
Why yes, it has been a while since we’ve checked in with this series. Consider this the start of a digital manga catch-up week around here. You’d think that I’d have wanted to follow-up on the adventures of Kafka Hibino sooner, what with vol. 4 leaving off with him having to prove that he’s still […]
Mob meets and rescues the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of this volume. That may sound like a big thing, but it’s a minor footnote compared to what happens next. While that immediately involves the title character learning the tragic backstory and taking on Serizawa, the last of the Ultimate 5, the real […]
With the Mignolaverse having transitioned over to hardcovers for its collected editions, I realize that not every title justifies that treatment or cover price. That said, if one that’s written entirely by Mike Mignola and illustrated partly by him, but mostly by Ben Stenbeck, can’t justify the format, then what can? That’s the case we […]
The father-and-son duo of Nocturnus and Galahad were once the pride of St. Barrington. Fighting against the many villains who inhabited the city, they gave hope to a terrorized populace. This was the case until Galahad got fed up with his father’s controlling nature and revealed their identities on national TV. From there, the son […]