Manga and Comic Reviews
Vol. 4 ended with Asa flying off with researcher Keiichi to confront the monster as it prepares to make landfall in Enoshima. You’d think that would be enough action to base an entire volume’s story around, but mangaka Naoki Urasawa has other plans. As Asa tries to improvise a solution to the crisis at hand, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Berserk vol. 41 Kentaro Miura passed away in May of last year, leaving his epic manga series unfinished. There was still enough material for one final volume and we’ll be getting that in November (it’s advance-solicited here). Though there will be no resolution to the ongoing saga of Guts vs. Griffith, what I’ve […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Catwoman: Lonely City It’s been ten years since “Fools Night” in Gotham City. That was the night that claimed the lives of Batman, The Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Nightwing. Not Catwoman, though, she just got sent to prison. Now she’s finally out and Gotham City is a much safer and less crazy place […]
Riko Kozakura is currently living her best life. Every day she goes straight home from work without putting in any overtime because she’s got plans. Plans to get in as much gaming as she possibly can before she has to go to bed and repeat the cycle the next day. It looked like this was […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars: Visions #1 This is an odd round of solicitations because a lot of comics from the previous batch wound up getting delayed and are re-solicited here. Among the actually-new comics being solicited here is this one-shot based on the “Star Wars: Visions” animation anthology. Surprisingly, this story based on “The Duel” […]
Written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Andy Kubert, “Batman: The Detective” has a very high-profile creative team for a miniseries that doesn’t have any direct connection to the current goings-on in the “Batman” books or wider DC Universe. That raises expectations a bit since you figure the story they’re telling has to be special […]
You know how I said the podcast was going to be up either tonight or Saturday? Logistics reared their head again and it’ll be up on Wednesday. All I can say about that is… HALLOWEEN! If you think about it, the “Reckless” series has been building up to this point. As she’s become a bigger […]
No podcast… yet. There were some unavoidable logistics problems over the weekend and John, Steve, and I haven’t been able to connect yet. We’re looking to record either Friday or Saturday, at which we’ll upload it once we’re done. Until then… The last time we saw Edison Hark, he was investigating a series of murders […]
The last time we saw Mob and Reigen, they had been invited along with a host of other psychics to the house of a millionaire who was offering big bucks to the individual who could successfully exorcize his daughter. It seemed like it could be the basis for a reality show, until Reigen went in […]
You’d think he’d be satisfied with having just one fictional universe all to himself. Yet here we are with “Tales From the Outerverse,” a collection of stories set in the shared realms of “Baltimore” and “Joe Golem,” co-created by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. These stories were meant to add characters to and flesh out […]