Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Nice House on the Lake vol. 2 When I picked the first volume for this series for this slot a year back, it was mainly because I didn’t know what to expect from it. All I knew about the series was that it involved this guy who invited his friends for this […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Survival Street “It’s ‘Sesame Street’ meets ‘The A-Team’ in a future American dystopia,” is how I imagine the pitch from co-writers James Asmus and Jim Festante and artist Abylay Kussainov went. Fortunately for us, Dark Horse agreed that it sounded like a good idea and now we’ve got the collected edition of this […]
I said that I wasn’t looking forward to reading this volume at the end of my review of vol. 10. That’s what happens when you try to make the reader as uncomfortable as possible while heading towards a thoroughly obvious plot point. I’ll give mangaka Shuzo Oshimi this, he makes the first third of this […]
Unlike another miniseries I just wrote about, the solicitation for this one didn’t endear itself to me. Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins’ latest miniseries for Dark Horse, after the intriguing but ultimately forgettable “Fear Case,” was described in a way that made it feel like it was overstuffed with lots of random ideas. All you […]
We first meet Ana and Zeno as they’re meeting each other for a nighttime stroll in the rain. It’s their first proper date after a chance meeting forty years ago and they plan to savor it for as long as they can. What took them so long to finally get together? Life. Ana’s took her […]
If nothing else, “Daisy” is proof that well-written solicitation text does matter. It’s something I took note of when the first issue of this five-issue miniseries was solicited. Things started out normally with the story initially appearing to center around a desperate mother, Lindsay Taylor, continuing to look for her missing son Connor after five […]
In the previous volume, EVERYONE IN THE PARTY WAS DEAD… except for Laios. Which means that we’re going to get some real “‘Die Hard’ In a Foodie-Centric Dungeon-Crawling Manga Action,” right? Well, this is still Laios that we’re talking about, but the end results are as entertaining as they are true to his character. Even […]
I was psyched for this miniseries when it was first announced. Simon Spurrier is one of my favorite writers and he did great work with Matias Bergara on the fantasy epic “Coda,” as well as issues of “Hellblazer” and “The Dreaming.” For the two of them to team up again on a new creator-owned work […]
Mjolnir went missing during the events of the previous volume. Thor was already in a bad mood then and it’s now even worse at the start of this volume as he realizes what he’s going to have to do in order to track it down. That’s right, he’s going to have to work with his […]
“Beyond” was a step in the right direction after Nick Spencer retconned “Amazing” into the ground. What Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. deliver here, however, is much more in line with what I expect to get from a Spider-Man comic. Some parts of it are familiar: Peter has once again nuked his life (including […]