Manga and Comic Reviews
It took a while, but Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ much-loved series has finally made its return to kick off its second half. Four years may seem like a long time between volumes, but when you’re like me and have spent the last decade waiting for new volumes of “Berserk” and “Black Lagoon” it’s […]
You can also call this “The Night the Lights Went Out in the Marvel Universe,” because that’s the basic premise behind this miniseries. When a giant robot meant to control universal entropy, but was sealed inside the Earth when it went out of control, starts waking up it’s down to the members of the superhero […]
“Air” is a series that starts off with a woman and a man falling from the sky into the sea. It doesn’t get less weird from there as we’re properly introduced to the woman, Blythe, an acrophobic flight attendant, as she gets sucked into a conspiracy to change the world. Threatened by a vigilante group […]
The kaiju decided to take the fight to humanity in a big way at the end of vol. 3. Not content to simply attack humanity in its cities, they decided to take on the defense force at the home of its third division. Unfortunately for the kaiju, that isn’t just the place where protagonist Kafka […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immoral X-Men #1 (of 3), Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 (of 3), and Nightcrawlers #1 (of 3) The “Age of Apocalypse” really was the gift that keeps on giving to the “X-Men.” People thought the idea of canceling all of the currently ongoing “X-Men” books in the 90’s for four months […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country vol. 1 I’m putting this collection here because it’s doing something that I’d honestly like to see more publishers do: Offer the paperback edition at the same time as the hardcover. Normally you’d have to wait several months for the paperback edition of a collected edition originally published […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Do A Powerbomb! I know that I gave this spot to the first issue of this miniseries when it was solicited. The simple fact is that there’s nothing I’d rather read more in this round of solicitations than the collected edition of Daniel Warren Johnson’s latest miniseries. While Johnson is easily one of […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Where Monsters Lie #1 (of 4) Kyle Starks may not be the most high-profile writer debuting his first Dark Horse title in these solicitations, but he has the one I’m most looking forward to reading. The writer is teaming with talented artist Piotr Kowalski for this series about what slasher-movie monsters get up […]
The hope was that Yor’s duty as a bodyguard on a cruise ship would deliver the comedy/action goods and that’s (mostly) true for this volume. Garden, the organization she works for, has been tasked with guarding the wife and son of a recently murdered head of a criminal syndicate. There’s a price on their heads […]
All Paprika wanted was to gain a little experience in the ways of romance to impress Za’atar, the big-shot movie producer who’s making the massively successful book she edited, “Spice it Up,” into a movie. The problem is that the person she decided to let help her with this, grade-A himbo delivery boy Dill, has […]