The best thing about manga is that there is a genre about just about every topic you can think of, so of course, there's a manga about chess called Blitz.
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A Hard Day is a fascinating, curious exercise in Korean webcomics, adapting a 2014 movie about a corrupt cop who messes up, makes a bad decision, then
A mysterious gangland murder brings out the worst in many people in power, and Newburn #7 is here to throw the plot twists at you fast and furious. When a
In Batman - One Bad Day #1: The Riddler, a world-class creative team takes the Riddler from being a punchline to looking like the monster terrifying you
Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever #1 is a fun, dumb comic. It's exquisitely realized from Avatar Press alum Juan José Ryp.
It’s foolish to deny Gun Honey: Blood For Blood #1’s charms: A beautiful woman plus firearms.
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Volume 5 is about a group of mediocre Japanese divinity school students who solve crimes with supernatural elements.
Grim #4 delighted me with spectacle. The very first panel is a splash of a monstrous tower in the afterlife, and in the next page, the crew jumps off of it.
At bottom, the oversized Predator #1 is an adventure/war comic in which, unsurprisingly, lots of soldiers die and staying alive is a good outcome.
Mind MGMT: Bootleg #2 reunites the Crimson Flower team of Matt Kindt and Matt Lesniewski. In this issue, another recruit (this time in India) is brought aboard.
In Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part One, there is finally a challenger for most gorgeous comic of 2022.
In Out Of Body, the detective (Dan Collins, a psychotherapist) is on life support, unable to figure out who attacked him.
In WWE The New Day: Power Of Positivity, Evan Narcisse and Austin Walker enjoy the sports genre. If there’s a trope they don’t use, it’s not for lack of trying.
The Rush serves as a perfectly good monster story with obvious themes of delusion and obsession in a setting that seems underutilized.
The Legend Of Luther Arkwright. That’s it. That’s the sentence. There’s more Luther Arkwright, and it’s exactly as humanist and anti-fascist as you’d hope.
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Time Is A River follows a 2020 Hellboy story from the Hellboy Winter Special called “The Miser’s Gift”.
Hit Me is the most original crime story of this year, not just comics, a subversive caper that takes a familiar plot and infuses it with unexpected twists
Al Ewing and Javier Rodríguez throw enough wrinkles in the “getting the team together” portion of Defenders: Beyond #1 that it reads fresh.
Neither especially good nor bad, Shang-Chi And The Ten Rings #1 reads like someone said, “produce a generic comic book”.
Daredevil #1 is a fake number one. There’s no good, but it’s livable. Marvel advertised the issue as a jumping-on point, and it fails on that front.
Grim #3 is reliably good and consistently surprising...Grim is quickly becoming one of Boom's best series.
With a cursory knowledge of recent X-Men activity, a reader can buy X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 and see the through lines of the story unfold.
Promethee 13:13 #3 finally comes to something like an explanation. The promise of the first two issues, contact between aliens and humans finally occurs
Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout #2 continues the story of Arturo, the brain dance repairman with an unplayable debt due much too soon.
Mind MGMT: Bootleg #1 reminds me: It’s good to read a Mind MGMT comic again. The series is about a shadowy organization that runs the world through psychic espionage.
In Pearl III #2, a reader can see (or intuit) what writer Brian Bendis (and artist Michael Gaydos) do well: show character.
In The Lonesome Hunters #1 (apparently a miniseries?), Tyler Crook (artist and co-creator of Harrow County) takes full control of a new series
The story about this one shot is the same as the other self-contained stories: The artists are top notch, and the stories are always right for them.
Stray is absolutely a comic in the style of young people at bars hurting each other emotionally and trying to heal
In Grim #2, Jessica Harrow is lost. Stuck between the living, the dead, and the need for information from her friends.