Manga and Comic Reviews
Tom King has written a lot of comics for DC, but he seems to have a particular affinity for the twelve-issue “maxiseries” format. Some of these have been great (“The Sheriff of Babylon,” “Mister Miracle”) One is quite overrated (“The Omega Men”) and another missed the mark (“Strange Adventures”). There’s also one that I’m not […]
It’s January 24th, 1991, in Medford, Pennsylvania, and three bodies have just found their way to the local coroner’s office. Detectives Dyer and Harvey have shown up to hear the coroner’s analysis of the bodies and causes of death for James Wells, Shane Wyatt, and Charles “Chuckie” Hayworth. This serves as a setup for the […]
Oddgoat was originally home to just the Aster family and their goats. Living was hard on the plains, but they got by. Until the day that an entrance to the Dungeon spawned into the bottom of their storehouse. Now Delvers, people who explore the Dungeon to find fame and fortune, have come from far and […]
There’s been a major change in Seiichi’s life since the last time we checked in on him: His mother has been arrested for pushing Shige off of the cliff way back in the first volume. She’s currently undergoing psychological examination to determine if she’s competent to stand trial, but her absence from her son’s life […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Wild C.A.T.s #’s 1&2: This month is unofficially Geoff-vember, for reasons which I’ll get into after the break, but you could also make a case for calling it Wildstorm-vember if you really (really, really…) wanted to. That’s because the characters from the imprint founded by Jim Lee are getting a bigger push here […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Legion of X vol. 1 “Way of X” initially seemed like it would be right up writer Simon Spurrier’s alley as the idea of Nightcrawler founding a mutant religion appeared to mesh with the writer’s desire to avoid telling superhero stories that embraced the obvious conventions. That turned out to not be the […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Deadly Class vol. 12: A Fond Farewell, Part Two You know what they say about all good things… Rick Remender and Wes Craig’s series about the kids attending a school for assassins who ultimately decide to burn it all down reaches its conclusion with this volume. While I was a little disappointed that […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 For a while it looked like the “Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.” series was going to be left unresolved. This series of “early years” adventures with everyone’s favorite big, red, stone-handed son of the Devil Himself was initially rolling along with a series-of-miniseries set in the 50’s and slowly […]
Longtime readers will know that I was a fan of “Assassination Classroom” by Yusei Matsui. It re-imagined the “Inspirational Teacher” story as a wacky Silver Age “Superman” tale after a round, yellow, tentacled alien took over teaching the worst class at an elite school. All so that they could kill him before the year was […]
Writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Tyler Boss broke into the comics industry several years ago with their creator-owned title “4 Kids Walk Into a Bank.” It was a confident, funny, and stylish miniseries about a group of kids who plan a bank robbery, natch. I really liked it, even if the ending did go a […]