Review: The Mindgator
By Justin Wood
You never notice the scars reviewing indie comics have left on your love for the medium until you read something like The Mindgator. Cracking open the review copy blind, I had to check to make sure it was a genuine indie. No publisher bullet, no hyperbole laden pull quote from one of Matt Fraction's Image Gang. An actual self-published work. And it looked really good. Not 'good for you', like a majority of the self-published books that cross the Bastard bullpen. Actual high-quality artwork. Now, I'm front loading this review with this praise because my take on the book that is The Mindgator isn't all glowing, but coming across a book that looks like this that isn't a marketed property by a titanic publisher makes me want to climb to the highest point of Comic Con and shout “This! You don't have any excuse other than your talent!”. We'll get to my detractions, but there is more praise coming as well.
Review: All Out E.01
By Shanel Kamara
Muscles, a token female, and a whole lot of testosterone, and tears; unfortunately, All Out is just another typical sports themed anime that boasts of no defining features or unique traits. To be frank, I partially expected it to be so. Although All Out is undeniably a sports themed anime show, I actually think of it as a shonen series.
New Gintama Series to Premiere on January 8
By Robert Ramos
It's about fucking time! The most recent series ended in March and it's been a sad, sad time without any new Gintama in my life.
Review: Batgirl #5
By Patrick Larose
I initially intended this review to be a follow-up, post-mortem of my review for issue #4. I wanted to summarize in a type of I-Told-You-So style about how the series failed to utilize its own new concepts and rushed its story to the end.
Review: DC Comics 11/23/16 – There Can Be Only One
By Dustin Cabeal
We get a ton of DC books, and due to a thinning of the ranks, a lot of them have gone un-reviewed for weeks. Not that I particularly care, but to amuse myself I read all of their releases this week and shit… it was a lot more than I was expecting.
Review: Doctor Strange
By Dustin Cabeal
Finally finding the time to see Doctor Strange I felt the overwhelming need to review the film. I’ve had an interest in this film since its announcement and casting because A) I like Benedict Cumberbatch and B) I wanted to see who Marvel would handle an unknown character in their cinema universe.
Unboxing: Loot Crate November 2016
By Dustin Cabeal
The theme this month is "Magical", but this box is anything but. There's some Doctor Strange merch, a shirt that could have been cool if you could actually tell what fucking movie it was from and one of the worst comic books of the year. That's right, the mystery has been solved, BOOM! got Big Trouble in Little China/Escape From New York #1 in the top spot on Diamond's list by getting it added to Loot Crate... oh you poor subscribers. Seriously, that is quite possibly the worst, if not close to the worst, comic I've read all year. Basically this month's box kinda sucked and felt pretty light on merch.
Super S - Anime Podcast E.016
By Dustin Cabeal
Don't forget, our podcast is now self-hosted, but due to how the homepage works for SquareSpace, you have to head over here!
Today it's all about our #1's! That's right, we've made it to the #1 spot on our Top Five lists. After we run through our top picks we spend the rest of the episode talking about the honorable mentions, the ones that were close, but just not close enough to making our lists.
Review: The Killer Inside Me #3
By Mike Badilla
Jim Thompson's 'The Killer Inside Me' is based on an old book of the same name. It's now a comic. It's supposed to be a glimpse into the mind of a serial killer long before we knew about men like Dahmer and Gacy and all those family favorites. This is issue 3 of 5, and I haven't read 1 or 2, so this may not be the most succinct review of the story so far, but I sure do like serial killers, so lets dive in.
Review: Night's Dominion #3
By Laramie Martinez
The last two issues of Night’s Dominion have taken us through an interesting and exciting world at a breakneck pace. We’ve seen a team come together, a heist go awry, and uncovered a conspiracy underneath the city. This issue, by comparison feels like the issue where we pay the piper. Slower than the previous two, Naifeh introduces a lot of new characters and storylines. While I have previously welcomed his twists and turns of the narrative. The ones introduced here feel like he’s trying to do too much. Overall, the pacing doesn’t ruin the issue but it does bring it down from the heights this series has achieved in the past.
Review: Frostbite #3
By Mike Badilla
Frostbite. From about 12 seconds of research online, I've found that this series takes place in the future. Global warming has caused the world to become a frozen wasteland. We see how people are reacting and living in this future time. Every one loves apocalyptic future stories, right? Right? It's also being described as a 'western', but it takes place in a frozen Los Angeles. Hmm...
Review: Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot
By Robert Ramos
Dustin and I once had a brief discussion on the actual pronunciation of "Patlabor." Of course, I was ridiculed for how I knew it was pronounced but that didn't stop me from trying to prove him wrong. Well, thanks to this seven minute reboot, I can prove that I am in fact correct. Glorious.
Review: Tokyo Ghoul vol. 10
By Dustin Cabeal
Well, this is a paramount volume if you’re reading Tokyo Ghoul. Where to begin? Listen, there’s a lot I could tell you about this volume. A lot happens. There’s more reveals in this one volume than there have been in the last four volumes combined. Hell, probably more if I could remember specifics of the other volumes.
Review: Snotgirl #4
By Dustin Cabeal
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. It still hasn’t and with this issue I feel like I did after the first issue. Excited, confused, and anxious for more. In this issue, so many minor things happen it’s hard to talk about it without spoilers, but even with spoilers, I don’t know if it would make sense without reading it.
Review: Food Wars! vol. 15
By Dustin Cabeal
That’s right, more Food Wars! Those of you enjoying the anime will be looking forward to this volume since it picks up after the second season of the show. But wait, hold that excitement some.
Review: Hadrian's Wall #3 & Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye #2
By Patrick Larose
There’s a particular type of dissonance between being a consumer and a critic. As a consumer, there’s really only ever one question—is the product any good?
Review: Masamune-kun’s Revenge vol. 1
By Dustin Cabeal
Well, lesson learned; don’t read the description on Amazon if you’re buying manga. The main reason being that the “pitch” for Masamune-kun’s Revenge clearly has information about where the series proceeds rather than pertaining to this particular volume.
Review: Bloodshot U.S.A #2
By Chris Tresson
This week sees the release of the second issue of Valiant Entertainment’s Bloodshot U.S.A by Jeff Lemire and Doug Braithwaite. I quite enjoyed the first issue and I’ve been looking forward to seeing where this one would go since the cliffhanger in the last issue. Let’s get going, shall we?
Review: Haikyu!! vol. 1 through 7
By Dustin Cabeal
I don’t particularly like reviewing a bunch of manga together, but this is a series that I fell behind on and then got caught up on all in the same day. I didn’t see the point of writing seven reviews that will all say pretty much the same thing. That and the fact that I’m watching the anime and have no idea which came first the chicken or the egg, and I don’t particularly care.
Review: The Goddamned #5
By Chris Tresson
I’m not one for biblical shite. Never been a religious guy and quite frankly, I try to avoid any sort of religious stuff at all costs… But I have been reading Image Comics’ The Goddamned. It’s back from whatever happened to it and I haven’t got a fucking clue where it left off, so I’m just going to stumble through this and pretend like I remember what happened before… Let’s see what Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra have been up to.
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By Justin McCarty
I picked up Transdimensional having no prior knowledge of the subject. Not even the Kickstarter description. If I had, I probably would have skipped it. I am probably one of five comics fans that don't get into sci-fi horror. The Kickstarter describes the comic as being a sci-fi horror in the same family as Alien and The Abyss. I’ve seen Alien maybe (just the one - sad face from you probably), not The Abyss. I wasn’t the proper audience for this comic. However, if I was into this type of story, I could see its appeal.