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Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 6

It’s the second round of testing for First-Class Mages, and it’s being devised by a… pacifist?  Sense, the proctor of the exam, is also someone who has never had anyone pass one of her tests before.  Which sounds strange when you consider that this one has the relatively straightforward goal of just having to make […]

Radiant Black vol. 3: Rogues’ Gallery

Marshall went on an odyssey through time and space to save his best friend in the previous volume.  Something like that should have earned him a little positive karma, right?  The universe thinks otherwise and we find out that he’s still trying to put his life back together after the unintentional six-week disappearance he had […]

Hulk vs. Thor: Banner of War

The last time we saw Thor, he was reckoning with the death of his father… and the fact that his father’s spirit was now inhabiting Mjolnir.  Things weren’t going well either for Hulk as Bruce Banner had turned his alter-ego’s personality into a rage-powered energy source that allowed him to leave Earth and smash his […]

Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club

The titular organization is made up of some familiar faces to the Mignolaverse, Sir Edward Gray and Sarah Jewell chief among them, who met in a London pub late in the 19th Century to discuss supernatural goings-on around town.  It’s these adventures that Simon Bruttenholm has decided to educate his nephew Trevor and his adopted […]

Farmhand vol. 4: The Seed

It took a while for this volume to arrive.  Long enough to make me worry that it wouldn’t be coming at all.  Which would have been very disappointing after the events of vol. 3 set up a major change to the status quo in the world of “Farmhand.”  No longer was Jedediah Jenkins overseeing the […]

Mob Psycho 100 vol. 9

The battle with Keiji Mogami is all but over, except for the cracking of Mob’s psychic shell to see the ultimate power that lurks inside.  I’m sure mangaka ONE will be back to show us the implications of this later on, but the focus for this volume is on the relationship between Mob and his […]

Saga vol. 10

It took a while, but Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ much-loved series has finally made its return to kick off its second half.  Four years may seem like a long time between volumes, but when you’re like me and have spent the last decade waiting for new volumes of “Berserk” and “Black Lagoon” it’s […]

Dark Ages

You can also call this “The Night the Lights Went Out in the Marvel Universe,” because that’s the basic premise behind this miniseries.  When a giant robot meant to control universal entropy, but was sealed inside the Earth when it went out of control, starts waking up it’s down to the members of the superhero […]

Air vol. 1: Letters From Lost Countries

“Air” is a series that starts off with a woman and a man falling from the sky into the sea.  It doesn’t get less weird from there as we’re properly introduced to the woman, Blythe, an acrophobic flight attendant, as she gets sucked into a conspiracy to change the world.  Threatened by a vigilante group […]

Kaiju No. 8 vol. 4

The kaiju decided to take the fight to humanity in a big way at the end of vol. 3.  Not content to simply attack humanity in its cities, they decided to take on the defense force at the home of its third division.  Unfortunately for the kaiju, that isn’t just the place where protagonist Kafka […]