Manga and Comic Reviews
Last time, writer Tom King and artist Daniel Sampere delivered a master class in modern superhero storytelling. They set up a threat for Wonder Woman, in how America turned against Themyscira after an Amazon murdered several of its citizens. Yet, in showing how Diana responded to that threat, they didn’t diminish her character at all […]
Mangaka Koshi Rikudo really wanted you to think that things were turning around with the appearance of King Gertsucoma at the end of vol. 18. Anyone with half a brain, though, could tell you that the advantage was going to shift right back to Poseidon at the start of this volume. Which it did, and […]
Bobby Ray and his girlfriend Dahlia are taking part in a little bank robbery where the former’s job is to provide the distraction while their friends get away with the money. The problem is that Bobby Ray has picked the wrong car for this job. Not that this car isn’t fast, but it’s actually a […]
Things start out on the crazy end of the action scale with the world under threat from a ginormous (yet strangely familiar) energy monster with none other than Major Havoc gearing up to save it. His wife, Empowered, would be joining him in this, except that she is very pregnant with their kid. Doing so […]
War was brewing when we last checked in with this medieval fantasy recasting of the DC Universe. Two of the rulers of the three kingdoms of the land had been murdered and all three of them are now prepared to settle their differences on the field of battle. It’ll be a battle the likes of […]
When we last saw Jerri Bartman she had finally found the former Count Crowley, Rich Barnes. Unfortunately, this happened because Rich had just killed her werewolf and AA buddy Steven simply because he was one of the former. Even worse is that Rich is just as sexist and demeaning to Jerri as his mentor Vincent […]
I was hoping that mangaka Hirohiko Araki would rein himself in after the previous volume felt like it was all over the place in terms of its quality and focus. That doesn’t happen here as it seems that he’s going to try and go bigger and weirder before this Part is over. As “Bohemian Ecstatic” […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cat + Crazy vol. 1 I wasn’t sure if there was going to be enough of an audience to support a series like mangaka Wataru Nadatani’s “Cat + Gamer” when Dark Horse first published it. The series was, after all, a simple little slice of life series about a gaming focused office lady […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Moonshine Bigfoot #1 (of 4) Sometimes, all it takes is a great title. Moonshine Bigfoot is a Bigfoot who spends his days in 1981 living the dream: Outwitting dumb cops, making fools of his rivals, and always remaining one step ahead of hunters of his kind. He does it all in his tricked-out […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman: Detective Comics by Tom Taylor vol. 1 – Mercy of the Father Gotham City is being stalked by a serial killer, which means that it must be a day that ends in a “y.” What sets this one apart from all the others is that they’re killing teens, juvenile delinquents, and young […]