BORROWED:Crescent Moon Marching Vol. 1 (Scholastic Graphix) I was intrigued by this manga when I first heard about it, mainly because my friend who...

   I’ve been reading so many realistic manga of late, particularly ones about highschoolers with crushes on one another, that it was a little weird and...

   They say opposites attract, and that would certainly seem to be the case with Suzuki and Tani who, despite being classmates, could not be more...

   This week’s bookshelf is another mostly manga one, thanks in large part to the size of the shelf, and how easily the standard tankobon-style manga...

   Viz Media released the first book in this three-volume series way back in 2006. Why am I just now picking it up? Well, last weekend, when flipping...

   G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #37 (1985)Art by Frank Springer and Andy Mushynsky In this issue, writer Larry Hama introduces several characters and...

   The end is in sight. This week, we start with the top shelf of my very last set of bookshelves in this tour of my personal comics library. This...

   Seven Seas Entertainment debuted the first collected volume of manga-ka Oshioshio’s My Deer Friend Nokotan in 2020. Despite the series running...

   How many posts do you think it takes to qualify as a series? If it’s just two, then I guess we could consider this post the second in a series in...

   Just to the right of the last set of bookshelves we discussed is a stack of books that I probably would have put on one of its shelves, if only there...

   Regardless of the quality of this summer’s new Masters of the Universe movie, it definitely ushered in a flood of related merchandise. And given that...

   G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #34 (1985)Art by Rod Whigham and Andy Mushynsky This is a very strong issue, and a good candidate for any best of G.I....

   This week’s bookshelf is an awful lot like last week’s, in that it is a) mostly small press and b) a real mess, with no real logic as to what is on...

   BOUGHT: Now That We Draw Vol. 5 (Seven Seas Entertainment) The previous volume ended with a pretty big cliffhanger, with high schooler and...

   There’s been a lot of talk about superhero fatigue, and that Marvel Cinematic Universe having become less and less of a selling point in and of...

   G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #31 (1985)Art by Rod Whigham and Andy Mushynsky Say, did you know that David Mazzucchelli inked this cover...? He did...

   This week’s bookshelf is a real hodgepodge, with, as far as I can now discern, no real orgainizing principle. These books seem to be almost all small...

   Ever since I finished reading the last volume of Haikyu , I’ve been casting about for a replacement series of sorts. In part, I’ve been curious about...

   Hmm, is the world ready for a dreamy Orion....? That was my first thought when I saw the cover of Orion, the new original graphic novel from...

   This week’s bookshelf is a manga shelf, and it’s dominated by two creators, one of whom is among the most influential Japanese artists to ever put...

   It’s time once again to revisit Larry Hama and company’s original 1982-1994 Marvel Comics series, G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (via Image Comics’...

   Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and a cornerstone of world literature and Western culture, directly...

   This week’s bookshelf is my original First Second shelf, and, indeed, most of the books here are from the publisher. On the furthest left are...

   When I first decided that I would review my way through the original 1982-1994 G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero comic book series from Marvel via Image...

   I’ve probably been looking for Jim Lawson’s 1993, two-issue mini-series Dino Island in back issue bins for at least 25 years now...unsuccessfully...