Manga and Comic Reviews
“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 […]
Four months ago, Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez fell in love. Then Jennifer had to go home to her “old fashioned” family to wait for when she could see Angelo again. That chance came when her grandfather fell and injured himself and she readily volunteered to help nurse him for the summer – not too […]
Io and Darryl’s battle continues – inside the Solar Ray! One fights to destroy it, the other fights to protect it and they’re going to do their best to take out the other guy in the process. It seems that this conflict has all come down to them. Until it hasn’t. With the Federation forces […]
It’s a tale as old as time: A creator hits it big at Marvel, then goes over to their Distinguished Competition to write the character that started it all. John Byrne did it back in the 80’s. Bendis did it more recently. Now Dan Slott is taking on The Man of Steel in a brand […]
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 […]