Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immoral X-Men #1 (of 3), Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 (of 3), and Nightcrawlers #1 (of 3) The “Age of Apocalypse” really was the gift that keeps on giving to the “X-Men.” People thought the idea of canceling all of the currently ongoing “X-Men” books in the 90’s for four months […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country vol. 1 I’m putting this collection here because it’s doing something that I’d honestly like to see more publishers do: Offer the paperback edition at the same time as the hardcover. Normally you’d have to wait several months for the paperback edition of a collected edition originally published […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Do A Powerbomb! I know that I gave this spot to the first issue of this miniseries when it was solicited. The simple fact is that there’s nothing I’d rather read more in this round of solicitations than the collected edition of Daniel Warren Johnson’s latest miniseries. While Johnson is easily one of […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Where Monsters Lie #1 (of 4) Kyle Starks may not be the most high-profile writer debuting his first Dark Horse title in these solicitations, but he has the one I’m most looking forward to reading. The writer is teaming with talented artist Piotr Kowalski for this series about what slasher-movie monsters get up […]
The hope was that Yor’s duty as a bodyguard on a cruise ship would deliver the comedy/action goods and that’s (mostly) true for this volume. Garden, the organization she works for, has been tasked with guarding the wife and son of a recently murdered head of a criminal syndicate. There’s a price on their heads […]
All Paprika wanted was to gain a little experience in the ways of romance to impress Za’atar, the big-shot movie producer who’s making the massively successful book she edited, “Spice it Up,” into a movie. The problem is that the person she decided to let help her with this, grade-A himbo delivery boy Dill, has […]
What was Ethan getting up to while his partner/friend Anna was investigating a potentially haunted house and getting stabbed for her troubles? He was up north in the San Francisco area trying to track down the missing wife of a son of some friendly neighbors who did him a solid once. While Ethan is no […]
The last time we saw Maika Halfwolf, she was even more screwed than usual! Poisoned by her lover, Tuya, who is finally making good on her directive to deliver Maika and Zinn to the Dusk Court. This is all so that the Ancients living there can extract the power that Zinn commands without having to […]
The final act of this series continues the momentum from the previous volume as Tsurumi and his men seek to escape the flaming brewery with Asirpa in tow. This results in another one of the chase scenes that this series does so well as multiple parties chase the disguised army members through the town. This […]
Soule’s attempt to make Crimson Dawn into a thing in the “Crimson Reign” miniseries left something to be desired. While not a bad idea in theory, the miniseries was hamstrung by the implication that we know it’s going to end badly for Qi’ra and her comrades, as well as a general lack of surprise in […]