Manga and Comic Reviews
Not only did they not fix the world at the end of vol. 1, but the Ultimates wound up needing a lot of fixing themselves – Iron Lad chief among them. So after taking some time to get their heads back on straight, they’re back in the fight in all of its myriad forms. From […]
Fifty-seven. That’s how many victims the Murder-Hole Killer had before they disappeared. It’s a state record, and one that’s in danger of being broken by two current serial killers. There’s the Ladykiller, who has forty-one kills to his name, and the Home Invader, who’s at forty-two. Which one gets there first is anybody’s guess; however, […]
Marshall Ward is now Radiant Black – full-time – in the wake of the “Catalyst War.” What does that mean for him? He’s now doing superheroing full time along with trying to find a new girlfriend and paying the bills as he hangs out with Eva, a.k.a. Radiant Pink, in the apartment they share. The […]
Two years ago, magic became a thing again and Robin Grant, a scientist at the Institute for Magic, is doing her best to try and understand it. For both the good of the world at large, and for her immediate family which includes her father-in-law, her two sons, and her impaired daughter, Tre. It’s Tre […]
The title character is part of an elite squad working for a corporate entity in the near future where these kinds of organizations call the shots. It’s the job of Madi and her team to take down potential threats to it using cyberwarfare and actual warfare. After a recent job winds up leaving them paid, […]
The severed hand of high school student Mako Igarashi is discovered when it is mailed to her home. Before the rest of her body can be found, one of her classmates, Mizuki Aikawa, confesses to her murder. She tells the police where to find Mako’s body, and severed head, as well as where another person […]
Did you hear? “Criminal” is going to be a streaming series debuting on Amazon Prime later this year. That right there makes it easy to be a little cynical about this volume. What better reason for “The Knives” to exist than to synergize with the upcoming show. Particularly after the previous “Criminal” story, “Cruel Summer,” […]
After helping the Rebellion defeat the Empire, the Ewoks were prepared to go back to their rural forest life taking care of each other and fending off threats to their village. Then the Empire came back. The ambitious General Koyatta has a plan to secure a secret weapons cache on the moon, and his future […]
Jerome Jameel has a secret. This part time bartender is a former deity who became trapped in Hell as a demon, and then escaped to our plane twenty years ago. He met a good, if troubled, woman, they got married, had a kid and now struggle to make ends meet as they live a loving […]
You’re the United States Government and you need a deniable op done quickly, quietly, and with as few operatives as possible. Who do you get? No, not the whackjobs of Task Force X, you need The Creature Unit. It’s a work-in-progress cell made up of the most deniable operatives there are: Monsters! Under the iron […]