Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters edited by Tim Marquitz & N.X. Sharps Like many a Godzilla fan, I have a fondness for movies where gigantic monsters rampage across the landscape. The fandom has more or less adopted the Japanese term for such monsters, kaiju. While the big critters have been a staples of… Continue reading Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
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Manga Review: The Promised Neverland
Manga Review: The Promised Neverland story by Shirai Kaiu, art by Demizu Posuka Note: While I will be speaking about the ending of the manga in only vague terms, spoiler-phobic people should be aware I will be speaking about the ending. Life is good for Emma, Norman and Ray. True, they’re orphans, but Grace Field… Continue reading Manga Review: The Promised Neverland
Book Review: Growing Up in Tier 3000
Book Review: Growing Up in Tier 3000 by Felix C. Gotschalk Jonas Sum X 37A is five going on six, and has not yet fully committed to murdering his parents. The cute redheaded six year old from next door, Carol III Rex 246A, is getting impatient, as she’s already disposed of her parental figures and… Continue reading Book Review: Growing Up in Tier 3000
Manga Review: Kitaro’s Strange Adventures
Manga Review: Kitaro’s Strange Adventures by Shigeru Mizuki This is the fourth paperback volume of Kitaro manga from Drawn and Quarterly. The history segment this time starts in 1960 when Shigeru Mizuki was fired from drawing Graveyard Kitaro and the book was assigned to a different creator! He went to another publishing company that liked… Continue reading Manga Review: Kitaro’s Strange Adventures
Movie Review: Metropolis (1927)
Movie Review: Metropolis (1927) directed by Fritz Lang Metropolis is the city of the future; brightly lit skyscrapers connected by sky highways, and grand gardens where the children of the elite play. Metropolis is the city of the future; workers spend half their days working at dangerous machines they do not fully understand the function of,… Continue reading Movie Review: Metropolis (1927)
Anime Review: Gegege no Kitaro (2018)
Anime Review: Gegege no Kitaro (2018) Two decades into the Twenty-First Century, most humans have lost the belief in yokai, folkloric monsters that exist on the fringes of the world. They can’t even see yokai. So when a Logan Paul-like video prankster accidentally unleashes a creature that turns humans into trees, the authorities are helpless… Continue reading Anime Review: Gegege no Kitaro (2018)
Manga Review: Triton of the Sea 2
Manga Review: Triton of the Sea 2 by Osamu Tezuka WARNING: This review contains massive SPOILERS for Volume 1 of Triton of the Sea. Triton, last surviving male member of the Triton Clan of sea-dwellers, has managed to survive everything the Poseidon Clan has thrown at him, including the 33 children of King Poseidon himself.… Continue reading Manga Review: Triton of the Sea 2
Book Review: Bad Things
Book Reviews: Bad Things by Tamara Thorne When Ricky Piper was small, his twin brother Robin was taken by the greenjacks, amoral nature spirits that only certain people (such as Ricky) can see. Robin’s body still existed, but his mind became alien–and dangerous. Now it is decades later, and Rick Piper has his own children.… Continue reading Book Review: Bad Things
Book Review: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Book Review: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Griet is sixteen, and would ordinarily be living in her parents’ home for another few years, preparing for the day she would get married and join her husband’s family. But her father was blinded in an accident at his job as a tile painter, and… Continue reading Book Review: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Comic Strip Review: Evil Witch Allie and the Black Whole
Comic Strip Review: Evil Witch Allie and the Black Whole by Kristin Tipping Jake is a cautious boy who deals with scary things by avoiding them as much as possible. Like the Mirror Lake Bog back of his house, or his crush on Cal, the boy next door. Part of it may be that he… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Evil Witch Allie and the Black Whole