Comic Books Reviews of both new release and older comic books. Marvel, DC, IDW, Image, Archie, and other publishers will be explored!
Reviews of both new release and older comic books. Marvel, DC, IDW, Image, Archie, and other publishers will be explored!
Oct 18 2019
Charmed: Magic School Manga Is an Enchanting Coming-of-Age Story for the Halloween Season
Halloween is no longer a one-day affair. There are too many festive activities for one of the most lively holidays of the year, and 24 hours just wasn’t enough time. The majority of autumn has been unofficially dubbed the Halloween Season. The fall of leaves and swift, cool breezes signal it’s that thrilling…
Oct 01 2019
Topside Is an Engaging Adventure Tale
In Topside, we meet 16-year-old Jo, a citizen of the Interior—a futuristic underground city with an overgrown sense of bureaucracy. While performing repair work as a part of her job, Jo makes an error, accidentally breaking something else in the process. Fearing the repercussions from the Interior’s…
Sep 30 2019
No One Left to Fight Proves to Be the Comic You Always Wanted
The first issue of Dark Horse Comics’ No One Left to Fight was released on July 3, 2019, and shops instantly sold out of copies—it took almost two months for this reviewer to get his hands on one. The cover boldly states that it’s “The Comic You Always Wanted,” and it lives up to that statement.…
Sep 10 2019
Stargazing Tells a Tale of an Unlikely Friendship
In Stargazing, Christine Hong is a girl under pressure. Her parents want her to excel and conform to the point that an unbuttoned collar is a disappointment. When Moon Lin and her mother rent living space from Christine’s parents, she becomes the friend that Christine wants and needs.
Moon is different…
Aug 28 2019
The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling Is a Trip Down Nostalgia Lane
“Wrestling isn’t fake!” David Arquette would scream in the critically panned comedy Ready to Rumble—a guilty pleasure of this reviewer—and to many fans, professional wrestling is as real as oxygen. My own love for wrestling is undeniable, and so is my love for comics, and those…
Aug 27 2019
The Okay Witch Is Much More than an Okay Read
Moth Hush is 13, and she knows she doesn’t fit in Founders Bluff, the small Massachusetts town where she lives with her mother. Founded in 1676, it’s the type of place that really embraces its past (the current mayor is a descendant of the founder), holding a pageant every year depicting its history—including…
Aug 09 2019
Bicyclopolis Imagines Minnesota in a Low-Tech Dystopian Future
In Bicyclopolis: A Tale of Human-Powered Time-Travel, Dan—a time traveler purely by curiosity—uses an invention created by his uncle to journey through time. He eventually ends up many decades from now in a dried, dusty version of Stillwater, Minnesota. There, he meets Sara and Archie, who bring…
Jun 28 2019
Exploring the Upsetting History of Comics in Chaykin’s Hey Kids! Comics!
Before diving into Hey Kids! Comics!, I must admit that I like Howard Chaykin. My knowledge of Chaykin was nonexistent when I met him at a convention in August of 2018. The only work of his that I was familiar with was Batman: Thrillkiller; I was unaware of the controversy that followed him from his previous…
Jun 27 2019
Knights of the Golden Sun Combines Biblical Fantasy with Brutal Violence
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I will be honest: I’m not religious. I respect the coexistence of religions and how they each have their own gods and values, but I tend to avoid any media that draws inspiration from religious texts because I feel it wouldn’t be for me. With this background, when I was sent Knights of the Golden…
Jun 15 2019
Masashi Kishimoto Makes His Triumphant Return with Samurai 8
In the world of anime and manga, few have seen the success Mashashi Kishimoto has with his smash hit Naruto. In terms of manga sale numbers, only Eiichiro Oda (One Piece) and Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball) have him beat, and perhaps only Toriyama can claim more international success.
Maybe. Naruto was,…