Manga and Comic Reviews
Orphan Mo put Chopper Teng to soup at the end of the previous volume and now she needs a bath something fierce. Fortunately there’s a nice bathhouse in town run by a pregnant woman and her doctor husband that fits the bill. This provides only a momentary respite for our protagonist as she’s quickly wrapped […]
If you had told me at the beginning of this Part that Lucy Steel’s devotion to her (significantly older) husband Steven would see her thrust into multiple dangerous situations, I would’ve laughed at the suggestion. Yet it’s that devotion that sees her playing on the sapphic affections of the President’s Wife, Scarlett, in order to […]
Jo “Sojourner” Mullien managed to not only escape the alien chaos that engulfed Evergreen, also managed to save her childhood friend Hal Jordan after he had been consumed by the Black Hand. With nowhere else to turn, she’s taken Hal back to the last person she wanted to see: Department of Extranormal Operations agent Cameron […]
Milton Shaw is a pilot who headed off to war to fight the fascists. He promised his wife that he’d be back as soon as his tour – twenty bombing runs – was over. However, on his twenty-eighth run he finds himself on the most crucial mission of his career: The destruction of the enemy’s […]
It’s the middle of the Great Depression and the town of New Hope, Oklahoma, isn’t living up to its name. Stricken by drought, plagued by enormous dust storms, more people are leaving each day in the hope of finding a better place to live. Sheriff Meadows isn’t one of them as he does his best […]
It’s a new day in Gotham, and… things are actually kind of different. Jim Gordon is now a beat cop. Vandal Savage is running the Gotham Police Department. There’s a new villain known as the Minotaur controlling the city’s criminal underworld with an algorithm of crime. An assassin known as Lady Death Man (or Ojo) […]
The fire of revolution quickens in this omnibus as famine ravages the French countryside while rot festers from within the Royal Palace of Versailles. While Queen Marie maintains her status at the top of the country’s social hierarchy, those looking (and failing) to breach it are plotting their own form of vengeance. None more so […]
Ricky Lawless has a problem. He’s seventy-five grand in the hole to a bookie named Karl, who wants him to pull off a simple job to make up for that. Go to a hotel, wait for a high-stakes poker player to come back to his room, and then rob him. It sounds straightforward, but whenever […]
Liddy is a rancher living on the Texas/Mexico border who’s determined to keep her land regardless of what threats she may be getting from local drug cartels. Oscar is from Honduras and is heading north to escape a life that has been filled with heartbreak and terror. Chance is going to bring them together in […]
The Killer is still working for the French Government at the start of this volume, alongside his handler Barbara to take out whoever’s needed. For a man with a history and level of cynicism as him, this kind of work is just like punching the clock. Then two things happen that change things. The first […]