Manga and Comic Reviews
All of the titles I talk about below had some potential to them. Whether it was the fact that they had a solid creative team behind them, were part of a long-running series, or represented my hope that a title would get better after a middling first volume. As for whether that potential was realized […]
“Age of Revelation” was an event that was expanded out way beyond what it was meant to contain. Which is a shame because the “X-Men” story at the core of it was really quite solid. We got to find out how Doug “Revelation” Ramsey responded to the pressures of being named the Heir to Apocalypse, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Black Cat vol. 1: No Good Deed You know how things have been going at Marvel these days. A new series gets ten issues to prove itself or be cancelled. We’ve seen it happen to “Venom,” “X-Force” (mostly, more on that in a bit), even “Star Wars,” and it’s going to happen to […]
Hiroto is a carefree 29-year-old who spends his days working at a fishing pond in the suburban Asagaya ward of Tokyo. He may have moved to the city to become an actor, but he hasn’t let his failure there get to him at all. It’s enough that he has a job he likes and that […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Monstress vol. 11: Inheritance I reviewed vol. 10 back in February, so it’s taken longer than six months for the issues in this volume to be collected. Which I’m only noting because this is arguably the best ongoing comic I’m reading these days. Seriously, no one is really doing the level of worldbuilding, […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Where Monsters Lie Omnibus Have you ever wondered what slasher killers get up to in between their movies murder sprees? The answer is that they hang out in gated communities like Wilmhurst where they commiserate with other murderers and sharpen their skills for their next adventure. This is something that FBI agent Connor […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hitman: It Was the 90’s Special #1 “Hitman” was never more than a cult success during its sixty-issue run, which was both a blessing and a curse. A curse in that the efforts to collect the series in trade paperback editions initially fizzled out after five volumes, and it wasn’t fully collected in […]
Like everyone else in the early 2000’s, I was obsessed with “Grand Theft Auto III” when it came out. Where the previous games were simplistic top-down affairs, this one pioneered open-world design in a way that entranced me and millions of other players. It presented a world that was so entertaining in its exaggerated realism […]
If you’re wondering who this Kirio is and why he has his own fan club, don’t get too excited about it. Said fan club consists of just two high school girls: The overly zealous Aimi and the somewhat more reserved Nami. They spend their days obsessing over important things like what their favorite part about […]
It started out with some people from another timeline escaping into the main one for this series, with one of them having it in for current Radiant Black Marshall Ward along the way. It ended with The Franklin Group taking over Chicago on behalf of the government and trying y to bring order back to […]