Manga and Comic Reviews
It looks like the adventures of Andragoras and Tahemany have been consigned to the backburner as far as the narrative for this series is concerned. What does mangaka Hiromu Arakawa offer up her as their replacement? Pirates! This threat comes upon the coastal city of Gilan after Arslan and company arrive there hoping to hit […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Oh My Goddess! Omnibus vol. 7 This series had the distinction of being Dark Horse’s longest-published manga series up until October 2017 when the sixth omnibus came out. When no subsequent omnibus was solicited in the months afterward, I had assumed that the fanbase for Kosuke Fujishima’s “Oh My Goddess!” had well and […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Guardians of the Galaxy by Al Ewing You’d think that getting the now A-List writer of “Immortal Hulk” and a hot rising star artist to tackle Marvel’s premier cosmic team would’ve a lengthy run for this incarnation of their series. Despite writer Al Ewing and artist Juann Cabal’s (and friends’) best efforts, the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Night Fever HC On one hand, it’s a new OGN from the team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. On the other, it’s the story of a man on a business trip to Europe who finds himself being guided into the hidden world of the night. A place, we’re told, that is “without […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman: Lost #1 (of 10) 2023 is the 85th Anniversary of the first appearance of Superman, and DC has decided that the best way to showcase this is… to have the character deal with a massive case of PTSD. No, wait, hear me out. This new maxiseries from writer Christopher Priest and artist […]
The previousvolumes have been ping-ponging back and forth between Darryl and Io’s perspectives along with their respective factions. Mangaka Yasuo Ohtagaki has also made it clear that you’re supposed to be sympathizing with whoever’s in the protagonist role for those volumes, regardless if one of them is doing the work of a terrorist organization. The […]
The run of writer Peter Milligan and artist Michael Allred on “X-Force” and later “X-Statix” is something that shouldn’t have worked as well as it did. Taking a hard swerve from the paramilitary mutant action of the former title and turning it into a satire of early 00’s celebrity should’ve been a huge turn-off to […]
Sonny is a former insurance investigator who came across an assassination contract on the Dark Web for the murder of a young boy, Xavier, and his mother. Due to his intervention, only Xavier’s mom wound up dying and now he and the boy are living off the grid in a commune in rural British Columbia. […]
Where the volumes of “Star Wars” and “Darth Vader” that bore the “Crimson Reign” subtitle had only nominal ties to the organization and its ongoing storyline, “Doctor Aphra’s” are a bit more substantial. In part because this volume’s main storyline involves the Ascendant, the Force-worshipping cult who created the thought dowser seen in the previous […]
Tokiyuki Hojo’s main antagonist may be charismatic (and possibly demonically possessed) warrior Takauji Ashikaga, but he gets an acceptably devious stand-in with Sadamune Ogasawara. He’s the governor of Shugo Province and has a major beef with Tokiyuki’s benefactor Yorishige Suwa. So Sadamune decides to crash a dog-shooting competition (it’s not as bad as it sounds…) […]