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Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #1 by Michael Walsh
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All titles in the Universal Monsters line have (at least this) one thing in common: the first issue always feels too short.Not „too short“, in the sense of badly edited or rushed, but more like a good pop song that you want to put on repeat, or better still, like the first episode of a... more »
A Sinner of the Deep Sea Vol. 1 - Manga Review
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Akihito Tomi is likely known to some of you from the seinen fantasy series Stravaganza. Compared to that, A Sinner of the Deep Sea is significantly shorter. The series began its serialization in 2020 in Harta magazine, published by Enterbrain. It ran for three volumes and concluded in February 2023.In the... more »
Paranoid Gardens #2 by Gerard Way - Review
Paranoid Gardens is definitely the strangest, wackiest and most surreal series in my pullbox right now, and it captivates me like magic.But why does it captivate me so much, even though issue #2 only confuses me even more. Although, it’s not even that. Gerard Way and Shaun Simon don’t actually... more »
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Nightwatcher #1 by Juni Ba
I like what IDW is doing with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.Not to say it needed a freshen-up but, yeah, it kinda needed a freshen-up. No complete makeover but a few new influences, new authors, new approaches, a fresh wind, a few people from the outside who see New York from more than... more »
Talk to My Back - Manga Review
Yamada Murasaki is a mangaka who has received little to no attention in the international market so far. This is changing now thanks to the comic publisher "Drawn & Quarterly," which specializes in alternative manga and older works in the manga sector. In July 2022, they published the manga... more »
Hellverine #3 by Benjamin Percy - Review
Hellverine is dark.Truly dark.Sinister. Powerful. Loud. The roaring loud. Fast. Fiery...Yes, sorry, I can only think of metalhead cliché vocabulary. Because that’s what Hellverine #3 is: Metal!While reading, riffs are already forming and coalescing with the double bass drum.The story about... more »
Stay By My Side After The Rain Vol. 1 - Manga Review
With Stay By My Side After The Rain, a new short series in the boys' love genre has recently been released by Seven Seas. The series consists of two volumes, and in Japan, a sequel titled Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite: Sono Saki was recently published.The manga, by mangaka Shoko Rakuta, was... more »
Ultimate Spider-Man #7 by Jonathan Hickman - Review
The seventh issue of Ultimate Spider-Man introduces the new arc, and pleasantly enough it doesn’t do so with a big bang, but with a simmering, still calmly gliding storyline.Harry Osborne and Peter Parker get to know their new suits and (Doc) Otto Octavious, Oscorp’s resident brain, helps... more »
Something is Killing the Children #39 by James Tynion IV
Anyone who still had doubts at the beginning of this arc as to whether this episodic narrative style, in which each issue highlights a self-contained story from Erica’s past, will have to admit after Something is Killing the Children #39 at the lates: it works brilliantly.Tynion IV uses this... more »
Hirayasumi Vol. 1 - Manga Review
Sometimes there are manga that immediately catch your attention with their announcement, and you know right away that they will perfectly match your reading taste. One such manga for me was "Hirayasumi"."Hirayasumi" is the work of Keigo Shinzo and began serialization on April 26, 2021, in... more »