Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dark Web #1 Yup, it’s another Marvel event. It’s not one of the big line-wide ones, however, just a smaller crossover between some characters who haven’t been interacting all that much in recent years. I’m talking about Spider-Man and the X-Men who are coming together to take on a threat that has bedeviled […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Lazarus vol. 7 I know what you’re thinking, “They’re still publishing this?” They certainly are even though I can’t blame anyone for letting this title fall off their radars. Pandemic plus Quarterly Publishing Schedule hasn’t done Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s future dystopia series any favors. I’m glad to know that we’re finally […]
Hmmmm… In light of recent events, I think I’m going to have to re-title the next edition of this. Above-the-Board Recommendation: Delver vol. 2 I thought that the first volume of this series offered an interesting perspective on the fantasy trope of a dungeon crawl, with some surprisingly intense action to go along with it. […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Tales From Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee I’m putting this here for the sheer nerve it represents. Next year would have been Stan Lee’s 100th birthday and DC is getting the jump on Marvel in celebrating it. How? The only way they can: Revisiting the “Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC […]
There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the first four chapters of this volume. Oran and Oba have what appears to be a final encounter. Miura goes on TV to let everyone know that the alien mothership is going to explode in a few hours. Hiroshi tries to get out of the city while […]
You’d think it’d be enough trying to follow up one era-defining Marvel run, while also managing multiple creator-owned titles, for Donny Cates. As you can see here, it’s not. After following up Jason Aaron’s legendary run on “Thor,” he’s now taking up the reins on “Hulk” from Al Ewing. (Who, coincidentally along with Ram V, […]
There is rot in the valley. First it came from the Bandit King, whose reign of terror cowed the hearts of many, save five who sought the power to defeat him. Power that came from the martial arts teachings of a lone master who taught them aspects of his art under the condition that they […]
The Ohm Corporation controls all the power in the future and they’ve just come under attack. It’s holo-A.I. CEO Mr. Karloff has unleashed Sam, a superpowered combat robot, into Ohm Tower to fight his way through the possessed threats representing various forms of energy at each level. He won’t be doing this alone, however, as […]
It’s. Finally. Here. “Kurosagi’s” return was originally announced back at Anime Expo in July 2019 with this fifth omnibus including the never-before-published vol. 15 set for March 2020, and a sixth omnibus of three new volumes to arrive later that year. I don’t think I need to tell you how those plans were interrupted. Given […]
Boris Johnson may have screwed over a lot of Britons during his time as prime minister in real life, but he’s got nothing on his fictional counterpart in this series. That’s because the version of him in “Once & Future” managed to send everyone in his country to the fantasy realm of Otherworld where all […]