Manga and Comic Reviews
Pearl Tanaka is the Ghost Dragon of San Francisco. That’s what people are calling the woman who is the head of the Yakuza there and business is going good for her. Sure, she just had the Endo Twins burn down their sex shoppe strip mall the Sugar Shack, but that was more of a mercy […]
Joan Peterson has a problem with love. Falling into it isn’t it, however. She has no problem seeing the appeal of spending the rest of her life with a rich man’s son, a singer in a local rock band, her best friend’s fiancee, a soldier during wartime… the list goes on. It isn’t until they […]
Based on the way vol. 9 ended, it looked like Mob’s biggest challenge for this volume was going to be placing in the top ten of his school’s 5K run. All so that he could get enough confidence to confess to the girl he likes. That’s… not the case here as this is the volume […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Scotch McTiernan vs. The Forces of Evil The team who brought you the flashback issues of “Deadpool” that everyone loved, co-writers Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, and artist Scott Koblish, team up for three adventures that pit the titular stoner soldier against the evils plaguing modern society. Said evils being America’s war on […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House Does it say something that the best Mignolaverse collection I’ve read in a while is the one that wasn’t released in hardcover? That’d be “Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb” which, coincidentally, was also the first one in some time written […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DCeased: War of the Undead Gods HC This was an easy choice to make. “War of the Undead Gods” is the concluding chapter to writer Tom Taylor and artist Trevor Hairsine’s epic alternate-universe superpowered zombie saga and the stakes are now cosmic. While things ended on a positive note as Earth was cleansed […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men: Before the Fall – Sinister Four #1 I honestly can’t say that I’m crazy about the idea of an “X-Men” event called “Fall of X.” Just from the name alone. Mutants have spent so much time getting the short end of the stick that it was both a revelation and a relief […]
Vol. 5 set up a hell of a situation for Narancia to overcome. With his mouth possessed by a Stand that caused him to say the opposite of whatever he means, he had to convince his friends that they were all under attack. I don’t need to tell you that he eventually finds a way […]
Everyone knows how the Suicide Squad works. You’ve got your supervillains and/or antiheroes doing high-risk jobs for the government for a chance at reducing their sentences. Assuming they survive, of course. The appeal lies in seeing what these (generally) bad people will do to make it out alive and there have been plenty of good […]
Batman is dead. So is the Joker. They both died on Fool’s Night ten years ago and Selina Kyle wound up in prison. Now she’s finally out and has returned to a Gotham she barely recognizes. Costumed vigilantes have been outlawed. Bat-themed police patrol the streets. Cameras and security systems scrutinize every citizen’s actions. All […]