Manga and Comic Reviews
Vol. 1 was delightful. Vol. 2 was as well, just less so than the first one. Vol. 3 is closer to vol. 1 mainly because there’s more of it to go around this time (for the same cover price). Things start off with curate-turned-priestess in the Church of Satan, Billie, and her priestess in the […]
Vol. 3 gave us the inkling of a solid direction for this series. The information the Four Little Shits acquired from the Lighthead Order pointed to a place called Zolar. Nobody knows where it is, but it’s said to be where the universe began. Zaha and company figure it’s as good a place as any […]
“War of the Bounty Hunters” was all about reintroducing Qi’ra, last seen in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” into the “Star Wars” universe post-”Empire Strikes Back.” She was now heading the criminal organization known as Crimson Dawn and was planning on selling Han Solo (still in carbonite) to the highest bidder to announce its return. […]
Val, Emory, and Bailey didn’t just make it out of the sanctuary alive and with some crucial information about how to bring the light back to the world at the end of the last volume. Additionally, they met up with some of Val’s friends from Outpost 41 and now they’ve got a proper convoy to […]
Jace Fox got his hands on a high-tech Batsuit at the end of the previous volume and we get to see him use it here to take out some bad actors who have infiltrated a demonstration against the police. It doesn’t go as well as he expects, but he escapes and gets to design his […]
The first round of testing for the First-Class Mage exam has begun. All that the teams involved have to do is capture a Stille and make sure all of their members are still alive by sunset the following day. This sounds simple, but the Stille is a bird that can fly at supersonic speed and […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dark Web #1 Yup, it’s another Marvel event. It’s not one of the big line-wide ones, however, just a smaller crossover between some characters who haven’t been interacting all that much in recent years. I’m talking about Spider-Man and the X-Men who are coming together to take on a threat that has bedeviled […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Lazarus vol. 7 I know what you’re thinking, “They’re still publishing this?” They certainly are even though I can’t blame anyone for letting this title fall off their radars. Pandemic plus Quarterly Publishing Schedule hasn’t done Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s future dystopia series any favors. I’m glad to know that we’re finally […]
Hmmmm… In light of recent events, I think I’m going to have to re-title the next edition of this. Above-the-Board Recommendation: Delver vol. 2 I thought that the first volume of this series offered an interesting perspective on the fantasy trope of a dungeon crawl, with some surprisingly intense action to go along with it. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Tales From Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee I’m putting this here for the sheer nerve it represents. Next year would have been Stan Lee’s 100th birthday and DC is getting the jump on Marvel in celebrating it. How? The only way they can: Revisiting the “Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC […]