Manga and Comic Reviews
I expressed a certain amount of skepticism towards the need for this title’s existence when it was first announced. Sure, I liked Jason Aaron’s run on “Avengers,” but was it good enough to warrant a second ongoing series as well? The answer from a publication standpoint is “Yes” as this title is crossing over with […]
The Avengers have to go back in time… to save the future! That’s the thrust of this volume as Mephisto begins his assault on the timestream to wipe out the one thing which stands in his way of multiversal domination: The Avengers of One Million B.C. So the Avengers of the Present Day have to […]
Temerity “Merit” Aster and her Delving partner Clem spent a year in the dungeon underneath the former’s hometown of Oddgoat. They both survived the experience, but emerged to find that the town is now more of a city, complete with an infrastructure to process and facilitate everything related to exploring the dungeon. It’s not really […]
Sometimes great talents emerge fully-formed from the start. Most times it takes them a little while to show what they’re really capable of. In Tatsuki Fujimoto’s case, the latter is what’s true here. Republished in the wake of his monstrous success with “Chainsaw Man,” these early stories show an artist who’s still trying to find […]
Joy Corrigan is an EN.VOI. That means she’s the top enforcer to the leader of a Trust, the giant city-states that make up the world of the future. Kathryn Menteuse leads the Jonado Trust and the bond between her and her EN.VOI is strong. Until one day when Joy becomes compromised. Now everyone she thought […]
In the first volume (which I could have sworn that I reviewed a while back), writer Henry Henry stole a manuscript from his mentor, polished it up, and had it published as the novel “Terror Forming.” It wound up making him the chosen storyteller in the eyes of those who inhabit the Fearscape, where human […]
When women get old in this particular world, they don’t get to be taken care of by their families or sent to retirement homes. No, they get sent to The Island where they have to fight all of the other old ladies just to survive the next day. That’s what has happened to Jay, though […]
Vol. 1 promised us lots of sexy fun, but was bogged down by a conventional, almost moralistic narrative. Vol. 2 managed to get away from that by suggesting that there are perks and good times to be had by selling your soul to the devil for what you want. Vol. 3, however, is closer to […]
Well, this is embarrassing. In the almost fifteen years that I’ve been podcasting and writing about comics, I’ve never had a problem with that most basic of rules when it comes to following a series. You know, the one about reading every volume in order and not skipping over any of them. It’s a pretty […]
“Way of X” had Nightcrawler picking apart the underpinnings of Krakoa as a means of addressing the spiritual malaise that had set in around this utopia. What he, and Legion, came up with was the Spark. A literal representation of creative energy housed in Legion’s mindspace, the Altar, where mutants are free to try new […]