Manga and Comic Reviews
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Death Fight Forever Everyone knows that the stories which powered the beat-’em-ups of the 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit eras and beyond were more or less nonsense that provided just enough justification as to why everyone in front of you needed to have their face punched in. Now, imagine if someone took that nonsense and […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: End of Life vol. 1: What’s Wrongdog? When it was announced that DC would be reviving its Vertigo imprint with an eye towards new, creator-owned titles from teams that had worked together in the past, it wasn’t quite the match made in heaven I was expecting it to be. I’m all for creator-owned […]
Gilbert and Mr. Kohinata are back from their honeymoon in Spain with stories of great food and lost luggage to regale Kenji and Shiro over dinner. This isn’t the only dinner date in this volume as our protagonists also have one with their neighbors the Tominagas where they try to guess what the husband did […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition First off, don’t ever be a researcher into ancient cultures or lore in a Lovecraft story. If you do happen to be one, just do your research from the safe and hallowed halls of academia. Don’t do any fieldwork. If you do go out into the […]
It’s a brand new day for Marvel’s First Family… that’s still in the “One World Under Doom” era. Due to the corporate synergy that mandates having a new #1 issue of a series out at the same time as a major Marvel movie, “Fantastic Four” found itself in the awkward position of having to relaunch […]
Eddie Brock may have bonded with Carnage to save his own life, but he’s also saved countless lives by keeping the psychotic symbiote in check. Not that his action didn’t stop that thing’s pathological need to feed, and it’s getting more desperate by the day. The only solace Eddie has right now are some fractured […]
I had a feeling this was going to be a tough year for me when I looked at the panel list and saw a lot of potentially interesting panels. From presentations by established regulars, to unions in videogames, to cosplay wrestling, to games that mess with you, to that one industry panel I always attend, […]
Saku has had a hard life, and not just because she’s an orphan. This Japanese girl has always had a tendency to get involved in fights, and to nearly beat the people involved in them senseless. It’s not that she goes out looking for trouble, but because she’s possessed by the spirit of an antagonistic […]
“Batman: The Long Halloween” and its follow-up “Dark Victory” are rightly regarded as classics within the character’s canon. Both maxiseries from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale told year-long stories set within the early days of The Dark Knight’s career as he worked to stop serial killers that were ripping apart Gotham’s underworld. They […]
Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael are back in New York City. They each had a rough time getting there, but the important thing is that these brothers are together again, right? Well, they’re still at each others’ throats over past grievances, and Donatello’s insistence that their deceased father Master Splinter is speaking to them through […]