I loved Fun Home by this author, so I snatched up The Secret to Superhuman Strength posthaste without reading the book synopsis. Imagine my disappointment when I realized it was about my arch nemesis, exercise. But it is actually a look at how exercise fads have changed over the yearsContinue Reading
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return in manga form in Moriarty the Patriot Vol 3. Holmes is arrested for murder! Sir Baskerville is playing the Most Dangerous Game! Moriarty is exposing the dark underside of the British nobility! The two stories here are based loosely, very loosely, on the AContinue Reading
Martha is a maid in a saloon where most of the women work on their back upstairs. She is hoping her integrity will prevent her from suffering the same fate. A chance run-in with a bounty hunter changes her attitude in Wild West, a Calamity Jane origin story. There areContinue Reading
In Dry Foot, four teens decide in 1980s Miami to rob their local drug lord to escape the neighborhood they fear. The art is beautiful and probably worth the price of the book. However, the plot has some serious pacing problems. It started slow as if the author thought heContinue Reading
Smart Ruby, princess Weiss, athletic Blake, and Ruby’s older sister Yang are once again students at the Beacon Academy in RWBY: The Official Manga Vol 2. This time Blake has a secret. Ruby finds a new friend, Penny. And the RWBY team gets to investigate the White Fang gang. TheContinue Reading
“Beer is my holy water! The drink of the gods! Skipping work to get drunk. I’m a schlub and I love it…“—Tendo from Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Tendo has been a salaryman for three years in his drone of a job. His department chief, Kosugi, has impossibleContinue Reading
A Nigerian-American police detective named Chioma visits her grandmother and grand-auntie in Nigeria. A strange and injured boy invites her to play tag during a rain storm. But it is what happens After the Rain that drives the plot of this multi-layered tale. First it was the smell. Then theContinue Reading
There are two and a half stories in Moriarty the Patriot Vol 2. They are set in Sherlock Holmes’ London but there is where the similarities end. Albert, Louis and William are sick of the elitist society of Victorian London. Despite being of noble birth, Albert wants to right society’sContinue Reading
The Spy Family is back! In Spy x Family Vol 3, Loid worries about Yor’s brother, Yuri. Loid believes that Yuri works for his agency’s “mortal enemy—the State Security Service”. In the meantime, Yor is falling hard for Loid and trying to be a “good wife”. And, of course, theContinue Reading
The Fiery Pyrockians live in the Earth’s core. But one day, they are shot out of a volcano into the hidden undersea world of Gillbert. The sea is ruled by Gillbert’s parents from Atlanticus. Gillbert Vol 3 tells the story of how the sea and its residents changed the FieryContinue Reading
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp. The Photography of Mauthausen tells the story of Spanish prisoner and former newspaper photographer Francisco. Director of the Erkennungsdienst, Ricken, was an amateur photographer himself. He orders Francisco to assist him in photographing the inmate death scenes. And those scenes are horrific. Injecting gasolineContinue Reading
It’s Halloween and I’m ready for something scary! The Witch and the Beast 1 does have a witch, more than 1 beast, & a weirdo who carries a coffin on his back like a backpack. However, it unfortunately failed horribly with the scary heebie jeebies. The first witch we meet,Continue Reading
The year is 2051. Not that far from now. The excessive merging of companies since the 20th century have resulted in a single company employing all the workers in the world. It didn’t take long for The Company, as it calls itself, to take over world government too. It wasContinue Reading
Monsters are suddenly able to come out of the darkness in The Last Halloween. Will one spunky ten-year-old girl named Mona be able to save herself along with all of humanity? Mona’s father has gone to a party in a dress and a mustache leaving her alone in their house.Continue Reading
A stunningly beautiful retelling of the classic Phantom of the Opera story in a graphic novel format. Most people know the plot. A horribly disfigured man helps a young women become a famous opera singer from behind the scenes. Is he a ghost? A madman? Or just in love withContinue Reading
Part parody, part homage, and fully camp, the Snifter of Terror Vol 2 is great for Poe fans that can take a bit of friendly ribbing. It’s the Mad Magazine of Poe. There are graphic short stories, prose short stories, and poems within these pages. Some are mashups of moreContinue Reading