Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
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 […]