Manga and Comic Reviews
Osaragi and Ino were once the best of friends. Now their relationship is on the outs about how they feel about Ishigami. It’s this fracture that drives vol. 24’s opening chapters as they slowly work through their issues in ways that are more dramatic than comedic. The comedy comes back in subsequent chapters as Chika […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Junkyard Joe vol. 1 “From the explosive pages of GEIGER comes JUNKYARD JOE!” is what the solicitation text tells us. I’m still wondering why we’re getting a story about the combat robot Geiger fought in the final issue rather than another volume of his series. Writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank have […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Avengers Assemble Even if individual stories in this run haven’t worked as well as they should’ve, I’ve been invested in the overall story that Jason Aaron has been telling since the start. That’s because he’s found a new villain be the big bad for an “Avengers” title that I’ve not seen before: Mephisto. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Den vol. 1 HC This round of solicitations is filled with hardcover and softcover collections of new material that feel overpriced. This is a new problem for the publisher and it’s something that’s going to have me start picking up a lot of their stuff when it comes on sale through their app. […]
Had I engaged in a bit more planning and/or patience, I’d have talked about this volume when I did the podcast for the series. In the end, I was left hoping that the stories collected here would offer some additional insight into the ending we got with vol. 11. That’s not the case here. Vol. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Flash #800 It’s a big ol’ anniversary issue that marks the end of one run, by writer Jeremy Adams, with the start of another, by writer Simon Spurrier. This is going to be the first time I’ve started reading a run of “The Flash,” despite its history of being written by luminaries […]
It may look like a random miniseries commissioned to promote the character’s upcoming movie, but “Ant-iversary” is actually here to celebrate the character’s 60th year of existence. Which is why we have four generations of Ant-Men tackling their own troubles while also getting ensnared in a cross-time caper. So gasp in amazement as Hank Pym’s […]
I thought that we had seen the last of the title character in “Fight or Flight,” but it turns out you can’t keep a good assassin down for long. We find out in short order that the Killer, going by “Denis” now, is now working for the French government – the Department of Surveillance, specifically. […]
It’s not that I had a bad time at last year’s WonderCon. It’s just that the highlight of my time there was hanging out with my friends well into the evening after I was done attending panels. The panels themselves were a deeply mixed bag with highs like “Law of Peacemaker” and lows such as […]
The last time we caught up with the crew of the Quin Zaza, Vannie had run away to take part in the civil war in her homeland while a good chunk of the crew followed after her. That storyline is wrapped up halfway through vol. 12 with the same level of quality that you’d expect […]