Manga and Comic Reviews
Oxel Karnhus is a private eye with Acromegaly. That’s a condition caused by an overactive pituitary gland which winds up stimulating the growth of bones in your face and extremities. It’s made his adult life a hard one, but he gets by in this collection of stories written by John Arcudi and illustrated by Dale […]
“Stray Dogs” by writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner was one of last year’s breakout hits at Image. The Don Bluth-esque look of the art was immediately appealing and offered an appealing misdirection for a dark story about a group of dogs who were starting to suspect that there was something wrong about their […]
Vol. 18 was one of the better volumes in this series in a while, but it also wasn’t the first time this series had delivered a solid start to its latest arc only whiff the finish. “Punishing Love” delivered the goods early on by giving us a genuinely creepy villain, a serial killer whose daughter […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Wonder Woman: Earth One Complete Collection Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s three-volume reinvention of Wonder Woman is finally collected in one volume. They took the story of the character’s departure from Paradise Island to spread its message of loving submission to Man’s World and things go about as well as you could expect. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Department of Truth vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies This is a series that burst out of the gate with a really great first volume, stumbled a bit with a vol. 2 that was only good, and rebounded with a third volume that got things right back on track. It did this […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immortal X-Men vol. 1 At the end of “Inferno,” in the final digital issue I read, there was a teaser for this series. So if you’re looking for an “X-Men” book to read in the wake of Jonathan Hickman’s ambitious, game-changing run, then you could do worse than to consider this one. “Immortal […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Jenny Zero vol. 2: Homeland Insecurities The first “Jenny Zero” miniseries was a pleasant surprise based on what it was originally solicited as. We were sold the story of the screw-up daughter of the world’s greatest kaiju-fighting hero getting another chance to follow in her father’s footsteps. What we got was something substantially […]
I thought we’d be getting more action to kick off this volume based on how vol. 7 ended, but that’s not the case. The kunstlers who show up make quick work of the opposition just to show off how badass they are. Which wouldn’t be a problem if some of them weren’t dealt with in […]
The first volume of writer Al Ewing and artist Simone Di Meo’s series about God-harvesters in space felt more like a prequel than a proper first chapter. That feels like less of a problem with this volume as the overall arc and goals of the series become clear. “The Stealer” picks up nearly 40 years […]
I was expecting a lot from the first volume of this series. As writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw’s first creator-owned title after hitting it big with “God Country” and “Thanos Wins” over at Marvel, I was expecting them to bring their A-game to a brand new series. That series was “Crossover” and it […]