Manga and Comic Reviews
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 […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Wrestle Heist Wrestling promoters suck. The one in this story sucks even more because his actions have led to multiple wrestlers getting crippled and having to quit their chosen profession. So it’s not a hard decision for them to try and get their revenge by robbing the promoter blind during the biggest show […]
Above-the-Board Recommendation: Resident Alien vol. 9: The Book of Changes Alien Harry Vanderspiegel has been through a lot since settling in the town of Patience and assuming the identity of its resident doctor. Now he’s retired, in a relationship with a human woman, who he has had a hybrid child with. It’s that last bit […]
The kings are dead? That’s certainly how it looked at the end of vol. 21 as a possessed Innocentis grabbed Andragoras and threw them both off of the tower they were in. It would take a formidable constitution (and a lot of luck) to survive such an act, so does this mean that Arslan is […]
Kal-El of Krypton is trying to do what’s best for the planet that he now calls home, but its inhabitants haven’t made it easy for him. Chief among them is the president of the Lazarus Corporation: Ra’s Al Ghul. Publicly, he’s your average self-involved billionaire businessman. Privately, he’s several centuries old, having revived himself multiple […]
Miles Morales came from the first Ultimate Universe, but he and his family have acclimated pretty well to the regular (616) Marvel Universe. The Maker came from there too, which is why he offered this Spider-Man the chance, in the form of a blank card, to come to the new universe he was making. While […]
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. […]