Manga and Comic Reviews
Fran Miller authored what is widely regarded as the definitive run on “Daredevil.” He also wrote what’s widely regarded as the definitive story about a superhero coming out of retirement for one last go in “The Dark Knight Returns.” How no one has thought to do a riff on the latter story with the former […]
Who was Martha before she was the elite retainer to the Blackbell family? A soldier for Ostania who fought in the last war against Westalis. There she saw firsthand the horrors of armed conflict and only escaped with her life through a combination of luck and the kindness of strangers. Though her return home was […]
Dante Alderman is also known as The Vitruvian, a member of La Coterie de Sept, an organization that finds its plans for world domination at odds with those of V.E.I.L. As Dante explains it to his daughter, Annalise, V.E.I.L. exists to keep brilliant minds like his down in the name of maintaining the status quo. […]
Surprise, Etienne is alive! Despite the best efforts of “Jacky Magus” and Eliza Hellbound, the Apex Telepath survived his assassination attempt at the end of the previous volume. You would think that, having proved their untrustworthiness, his fellow Superpowers’ days would be numbered. Except that Etienne is a man who’s lived his life by doing […]
Wow. Who remembers “Mouse Guard?” When it started back in the aughts, David Petersen’s feudal fantasy series – with mice – looked like it could be the next big thing with all of the acclaim and positive word of mouth the first three volumes garnered. These volumes weren’t easy to produce, however, as the third […]
New mutants Melee, Bronze, and Axo are all cool with being trained by Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, and Bobby Drake to hone their mutant gifts. That won’t always pay the bills, however, so when a group internship opens up at Verate, the home of the social media app that uses people’s personal information to help […]
Land and Ubel may be First Class Mages, but they’ve been tasked with doing some regular old spycraft in order to get information on an assassination plot to take out the leader of the Continental Mage Association’s leader, Serie. That doesn’t mean they won’t have to rely on their magic-using skills, especially once the Empire’s […]
The circus has come to town and snared everyone in its diabolical grasp. Everyone except Spring Seasons (and her gloomy sister Winter) who sees the clowns running it for the malevolent spirits they are. Unfortunately for her, they’re busy offering up everyone the chance to get lost in their heart’s desires by reflecting them in […]
Eva is a psychiatrist with bipolar disorder who’s currently being evaluated by another shrink before her license can be reinstated. So it probably doesn’t help her case when she lets him know that she was around when a murder took place at her friend Penelope Montruous’ estate. The Montruoses are a dynasty of wine producers […]
Batman may have stopped the secret organization known as Elixir’s plans for Gotham, but they have a thing about loose ends. So when former GCPD detective turned private eye Harvey Bullock starts looking into them, they make sure he’s taken out of the picture – by taking him out of the country. Unfortunately for them, […]