Manga and Comic Reviews
Members of the Super-and-Bat-Families have suffered through a multitude of transformations for various reasons over the years. This time, Superman and his son Jon, and Batman and his son Damien have all been transformed into corgis because Trinity (age 12) wanted to cheer up Trinity (age 6) by showing a bit of Trinity’s (age 18) […]
Vol. 2 ended with the titular team recognizing that their efforts to save the world by bludgeoning the threats embedded in it wasn’t working. What they needed to do was to give inside of it the knowledge and strength to rise up and save themselves. Which is exactly what they do by establishing a worldwide […]
It’s been said that the only thing keeping nuclear war from breaking out is that The People In Charge just don’t want it to. If it breaks out and wrecks everything then what happens to cat videos on YouTube? Buying an awesome car, tricking it out, and then racing it down a neighborhood street in […]
This series hasn’t just been popular enough to spawn multiple anime adaptations, but spinoff manga series as well. While I’m sure that they were all done with mangaka Kore Yamazaki’s approval, I’ve never felt that Japan’s quality control on these things is really any better than America’s. So I’ve been skipping them and I was […]
Diana’s career in the Absolute Universe got off to a hell of a start in vol. 1 when she defeated the monster known as the Tetracide and saved her mother Circe from Hades’ clutches. She also knows that something is deeply wrong in the world of man and is not going to stop until it’s […]
Private Otis Fallows didn’t have to think. All he had to do was follow the orders from General McCoy, head of the Gaines Army Base in Southern Nevada. The General was overseeing a nuclear test and ordered his men to investigate the fallout from it. When they did, that’s when the people closest to it […]
Marco Mancini was free of the Shrouded College when he helped Sebastian and Maia in their struggle against the Poor Man. That help cost him his life and left his wife, Violetta, a widow. Even if it was working with his friends that got him killed, Violetta knows that it was all due to the […]
It’s time for the members of Oinokami’s hockey team to face their first real match! Coach Nihei has set them up to play against Sekka High in what you’d think would be a relatively normal game to ease these kids onto the ice. Except that Sekka is filled with hardcore delinquents and they make it […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DNX #1 (of 5) Marvel is sure going event-crazy in their recent solicitations. What with “Avengers: Armageddon” and “Queen in Black” having kicked off in the June solicits and this kicking off here. Of the three, this is the one I’m most interested in because you can draw a clear line to it […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC/Marvel: The Cosmic Kiss Caper and Other Stories As if it could be anything else this month. I was worried for a minute that we’d have to wait for another omnibus-style collection of DC/Marvel stories; but, thankfully both publishers aren’t doing that and we’re getting collections of their sides of these crossovers […]