Manga and Comic Reviews
“Absolute Batman” is a monstrous success by any modern American superhero comics standard. The first issue has gone through eleven printings, the first collection stormed the bestseller lists, and the first issue after the ones in this volume – the origin of the Absolute Joker sold over 300,000 copies. While you’d think that supervillain origin […]
He was born and raised on Krypton, but how did he make it to Earth, and to Superman? Writer Ryan North and artist Mike Norton tell the tale of the DCU’s goodest boy in this surprisingly emotional miniseries. I say this as an avowed cat person who definitely loves reading comics about cats and bought […]
The community of Marshview seemed like the perfect place for Ivy and her friends to set up shop, with it being a formerly sunken swamp town that was magically secluded from the outside world. Too bad that it’s still haunted by the people who died there, and one still living bog monster. That’s the kind […]
I think we were all right to suspect otherwise at first, but it turns out that young Lucy Steel actually does love her older husband, and organizer of the Steel Ball Run Race, Steven. Why else would she try to break into a federal building in order to find out what the President of the […]
Rennie Bethany is a serial killer. Unfortunately that doesn’t pay the bills on its own. So she applied to the New York Fashion and Design Institute to pursue her other calling. Though her initial plan was to keep her head down, learn what she could, and get on with her life, fate has other plans […]
Bruce Wayne has adopted Dick Grayson after the tragic death of his parents and allowed the young boy to be his sidekick as a way of working through his feelings in the wake of that tragic event. It’s not easy for either of them, though. Bruce has to adjust to looking out for someone like […]
Forever Carlyle, Lazarus to Family Carlyle, has gone rogue along with her sister/replacement Infinity. They’re ready to end the grip the Families have over the world, but they won’t be able to do it alone. That’s why they’re looking to hook up with the Free – a group of rebels who have managed an underground […]
It’s hard not to look at this collection and think that something has gone wrong with the next stage of Al Ewing’s “Venom” run. After bringing the business with Meridius to a close in “Venom War” we were set up for a new era with Eddie Brock bonded to Carnage, the Venom symbiote in the […]
Mujina may not have rights, but that’s not going to stop the police from looking into them. That’s where Special Safety members, easygoing veteran Kashio and straightlaced newbie Lin, come in as they’ve been tasked with tracking down some very sensitive information that’s connected to Ubume’s former boyfriend Nozuchi. You know, the guy she killed […]
No, not the entirety of writer Dan Abnett and artist I.N.J. Culbard’s series from 2000 A.D., just one volume of it. Along with several other volumes of comics that have been lingering in my To Review pile from last year. If you’re thinking that not only was I struggling to come up with a clever […]