Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman: Lost #1 (of 10) 2023 is the 85th Anniversary of the first appearance of Superman, and DC has decided that the best way to showcase this is… to have the character deal with a massive case of PTSD. No, wait, hear me out. This new maxiseries from writer Christopher Priest and artist […]
The previousvolumes have been ping-ponging back and forth between Darryl and Io’s perspectives along with their respective factions. Mangaka Yasuo Ohtagaki has also made it clear that you’re supposed to be sympathizing with whoever’s in the protagonist role for those volumes, regardless if one of them is doing the work of a terrorist organization. The […]
The run of writer Peter Milligan and artist Michael Allred on “X-Force” and later “X-Statix” is something that shouldn’t have worked as well as it did. Taking a hard swerve from the paramilitary mutant action of the former title and turning it into a satire of early 00’s celebrity should’ve been a huge turn-off to […]
Sonny is a former insurance investigator who came across an assassination contract on the Dark Web for the murder of a young boy, Xavier, and his mother. Due to his intervention, only Xavier’s mom wound up dying and now he and the boy are living off the grid in a commune in rural British Columbia. […]
Where the volumes of “Star Wars” and “Darth Vader” that bore the “Crimson Reign” subtitle had only nominal ties to the organization and its ongoing storyline, “Doctor Aphra’s” are a bit more substantial. In part because this volume’s main storyline involves the Ascendant, the Force-worshipping cult who created the thought dowser seen in the previous […]
Tokiyuki Hojo’s main antagonist may be charismatic (and possibly demonically possessed) warrior Takauji Ashikaga, but he gets an acceptably devious stand-in with Sadamune Ogasawara. He’s the governor of Shugo Province and has a major beef with Tokiyuki’s benefactor Yorishige Suwa. So Sadamune decides to crash a dog-shooting competition (it’s not as bad as it sounds…) […]
Edward M. Pressler is the supervillain known as EMP. His claim to fame is that he blacked out Gotham City five years ago with an electromagnetic blast he generated from within his own body. EMP spent the next five years in a sensory deprivation tank at Arkham Asylum, until tonight when the order was given […]
Hayao Miyazaki is internationally famous because many, if not all, of the anime films he has directed are certifiable classics. In addition to these films, the man also found time to create the greatest work of comics ever made, “Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind,” over a twelve-year period. While I’ve recommended a lot of […]
Vader made his opposition to the criminal organization known as Crimson Dawn clear in the previous volume. Now he’s out to purge its influence from the Empire and restore order to it along the way. He’s going to need some help in order to do this. By “help” I mean expendable assets who are willing […]
The reasoning behind which Mignolaverse titles get the hardcover treatment becomes easier to identify if this volume is any indication. All spinoff titles that don’t have Mignola’s direct involvement or aren’t part of an ongoing storyline arrive in softcover. Everything else gets the hardcover treatment. Why? My guess is that it’s down to declining sales […]