Manga Reviews

Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Chapter 2 – “Tree” Review

The first chapter of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex was one of the strongest chapters with Boruto Uzumaki as the lead character of the franchise. The time jump was something that the Boruto series desperately needed and it showed immediately. Not only did it raise the stakes but elevated characters other than Boruto and Kawaki almost immediately. The ending does give...

Kagurabachi Chapter 1 Review – “Mission”

The season of new manga debuting in Shonen Jump continues. The second series that is debuting in this latest round is Kagurabachi by mangaka Takeru Hokazono. Hokazono has published several one-shots with their debut one-shot manga titled “Enten” wining the 100th Tezuka Manga Award in 2020. Kagurabachi is Hokazono’s first ongoing manga series, handling both the writing and artwork. Let’s...

My Hero Academia Chapter 400 Review – “Beyond Limits”

Kohei Horikoshi is hitting a major milestone as My Hero Academia has reached its 400th chapter of publication. This is a massive achievement for one of the most well-known manga series in the world. This milestone chapter comes as it appears the massive final battle of All Might vs All For One is close to reaching its end. There is...

Spy x Family Wraps Up It’s Best Loid Forger Story Arc

When it comes to Spy x Family a normal story arc is about four to six chapters long. The exception to that rule was the Yor Forger/Thorn Princess led Cruise Adventure Arc that went fifteen chapters. But in the twelve months we’ve seen Tatsuya Endo has developed longer arcs. During this last year we have only gotten the Anya focused...

MamaYuyu Chapter 1 Review – “The Day I Became A Hero”

As we come to the end of summer we have yet another cycle of manga series ending in Shonen Jump. For a series like Yuki Tabata’s popular Black Clover ended its run on Weekly Shonen Jump and is now publishing in the quarterly released Jump GIGA. For others the news has been worse Daisuke Enoshima's Fabricant 100 and Yuto Tsukuda...

DC Comics

Nightwing #106 Review – “The Crew Of The Crossed”

Nightwing has had a very different 2023 compared to other solo ongoing series. The first half of the year creating momentum for the new Titans series and then the summer on helping the Knight Terrors event. Now after all that we are getting the first big story arc focused back on Nightwing’s solo adventures. But rather than exploring the state...

Catwoman #57 Review – “Gotham War” Part 3

Gotham War continues with the war between Batman and Catwoman heating up. Tini Howard now takes on telling the next chapter of Gotham War with Catwoman #57. After we got Bruce Wayne’s perspective on Gotham War we will see how things could change with Selina Kyle as the lead. Though expectations are low now after the first two chapters of...

Wonder Woman #1 Review – “Outlaw”

It’s a new era for Wonder Woman as Tom King and Daniel Sampere take over as the new creative team. King and Sampere aren’t completely entering with a clean slate as the Wonder Woman franchise recently went through a big change. That change came in the form of the Amazons embracing being part of the rest of the world by...

Weekly Comic Book Reviews For 9/13/23

As has become a trend this has been another packed week of comic book releases. We already had individual reviews for Batman and Robin #1, The Cull #2, Coda #1, Daredevil #1, and Green Lantern #3 live on the site. To give more of a spotlight on other releases this week’s comic book round-up will be highlighting Avengers Inc. #1,...

Top Takeaways From DC Comics December 2023 Solicitations

DC Comics has unveiled their December 2023 solicitations. With that we see that DC Comics is going to be ending the year by wrapping up the majority of story arcs across their many titles. That includes a major return of Green Arrow to the main DC Universe continuity. Though not everything will be positive for every hero in the DCU....

Marvel Comics

Top Takeaways From Marvel Comics December 2023 Solicitations

December will be a big month for Marvel. For the X-Men franchise we will see the Fall of X storyline start to wrap up to make way for Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X in 2024. Then with Spider-Man we will see the latest Gang War that will take over New York City...

Uncanny Spider-Man #1 Review – “Park Life”

The Fall of X direction has spread the surviving mutants across the world doing various things. One of those mutants still trying to be active is Nightcrawler. In order to avoid detection from Orchis’ Iron Man Sentinels capturing and killing him Nightcrawler has decided to adopt a secret superhero identity. And not just any superhero identity. Nightcrawler is joining the...

Weekly Comic Book Reviews For 9/13/23

As has become a trend this has been another packed week of comic book releases. We already had individual reviews for Batman and Robin #1, The Cull #2, Coda #1, Daredevil #1, and Green Lantern #3 live on the site. To give more of a spotlight on other releases this week’s comic book round-up will be highlighting Avengers Inc. #1,...

Daredevil #1 Review – “Introductory Rites”

Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto wrapped up their epic run on Daredevil with Matt Murdock dying and battling demons in Hell. At the end of the story Matt Murdock was shown somehow resurrected with lost memories and working as a priest. With that Matt busy with his new life Elektra Natchios has decided to continue on as Daredevil. Now writer...

Weekly Comic Book Reviews For 9/6/23

Welcome back to another comic book review round-up. The first week of September brought the heat with a lot of big releases. We already have individual reviews on Batman #137, Birds Of Prey #1, Hunt For The Skinwalker #1, Kill Your Darlings #1, and X-Men #26 live on the site. To highlight more of this week’s releases our latest review...

Other Publishers

BOOM! Studios December 2023 Solicitations

BOOM! Studios has revealed their December 2023 solicitations! They are looking to end the year strong with several new series debut. That includes Tom King and Peter Gross’ Animal Pound, David & Maria Lapham’s Underheist, and Christine Larsen’s ORCS! The Gift. Along with these debuts we got two major series ending with the final issues of Sirens of the City...

Rare Flavours #1 “Masala Chai” Advance Review

Continuing to venture out of the comfort zone of superhero stories to other genres that comic books have to tell one new series that caught my eye was Rare Flavours. Written by current Detective Comics writer Ram V and art by Captain Marvel artist Filipe Andrade, this new series looks o be a wicked ride through food culture. Given Ram...

The Cull #2 Advance Review

The first issue of Kelly Thompon and Mattia De Iulis’ The Cull was an impressive debut. There were a lot of vibes of classic weird movies we got during the 1980s like The Goonies in the debut issue. Each member of the core cast we will be following through this journey were all given time to get to know them...

Coda #1 Advance Review

The first Coda series by Simon Spurrier and Matias Bergara is a comic book I heard many good things about. When it was announced that Spurrier and Bergara were returning with a follow-up to Coda I was interested to see if it’s a series I could jump into. With a brand new first issue I wanted to see how as...

Weekly Comic Book Reviews For 9/6/23

Welcome back to another comic book review round-up. The first week of September brought the heat with a lot of big releases. We already have individual reviews on Batman #137, Birds Of Prey #1, Hunt For The Skinwalker #1, Kill Your Darlings #1, and X-Men #26 live on the site. To highlight more of this week’s releases our latest review...

Sales Charts and Rankings

August 2023 Single Issue Comic Book Sales Rankings

It is time to check out the August 2023 single-issue comic book sales rankings. Things are getting murkier in terms of actual unit numbers. So, we will have to settle with going to ICv2 for their Top 200 sales rankings. It is not as good as actual unit numbers, but we have to work with what we get. Keep in...

July 2023 Single Issue Comic Book Sales Rankings

It is time to check out the July 2023 single-issue comic book sales rankings. Things are getting murkier in terms of actual unit numbers. So, we will have to settle with going to ICv2 for their Top 200 sales rankings. It is not as good as actual unit numbers, but we have to work with what we get. Keep in...

June 2023 Single Issue Comic Book Sales Rankings

It is time to check out the June 2023 single-issue comic book sales rankings. Things are getting murkier in terms of actual unit numbers. So, we will have to settle with going to ICv2 for their Top 200 sales rankings. It is not as good as actual unit numbers, but we have to work with what we get. Keep in...

May 2023 Single Issue Comic Book Sales Rankings

It is time to check out the May 2023 single-issue comic book sales rankings. Things are getting murkier in terms of actual unit numbers. So, we will have to settle with going to ICv2 for their Top 200 sales rankings. It is not as good as actual unit numbers, but we have to work with what we get. Keep in...

April 2023 Graphic Novels Sales Charts Including Superhero Comic Books and Manga

It is that time of the month when we get to check out the latest graphic novels sales numbers. As always, ICv2 is the best source for these sales numbers. ICv2 released several sales charts for April 2023 including the ComicHub Top 100 Graphic Novels, the Top 20 Author Graphic Novels, Top 20 Superheroes Graphic Novels, the Top 20 Manga...

Commentary

Spy x Family Wraps Up It’s Best Loid Forger Story Arc

When it comes to Spy x Family a normal story arc is about four to six chapters long. The exception to that rule was the Yor Forger/Thorn Princess led Cruise Adventure Arc that went fifteen chapters. But in the twelve months we’ve seen Tatsuya Endo has developed longer arcs. During this last year we have only gotten the Anya focused...

10 Reasons To Be Excited For Power Rangers Darkest Hour Event

The biggest storyline since Shattered Grid for BOOM! Studios’ Power Rangers Universe in the form of Darkest Hour is less than a month away. In the build up to this massive event Melissa Flores and company challenged the Power Rangers in previously unseen ways. Specifically, the Recharged Era storyline that ran through Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #101 to #110 saw...

Himiko Toga Sacrifice Saves Ochaco Uraraka In My Hero Academia Chapter 395

Kohei Horikoshi has not held back as we are now closer to the conclusion of The Final War Arc, and by extension the end of My Hero Academia. In particular, we’ve been seeing the individual final battles against the League Of Villains’ characters who we’ve known from the start of the series in Tomura Shigaraki, All For One, Dabi, Himiko...

Spider Man Gang War Crossover & New Punisher Lead Marvel SDCC 2023

San Diego Comic-Con 2023 was a different event for Marvel compared to previous years. There was no Marvel Studios to help prop up the brand with new MCU movies, live-action shows, or animated projects to fill-up the SDCC 2023 schedule. That meant it was Marvel Comics time to shine. For Marvel there was also a different approach to their SDCC...

Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong Headline DC Comics SDCC 2023

San Diego Comic-Con 2023 was a much different event than past SDCC. Specifically, with both the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes going on the presence of TV and movies where much smaller than they normally. Possibly with that in mind DC Comics decided against dropping their October 2023 solicitations along with Marvel, Image, BOOM! Studios, and other comic book publishers as...

Comic Book Solicitations

BOOM! Studios December 2023 Solicitations

BOOM! Studios has revealed their December 2023 solicitations! They are looking to end the year strong with several new series debut. That includes Tom King and Peter Gross’ Animal Pound, David & Maria Lapham’s Underheist, and Christine Larsen’s ORCS! The Gift. Along with these debuts we got two major series ending with the final issues of Sirens of the City...

Top Takeaways From Marvel Comics December 2023 Solicitations

December will be a big month for Marvel. For the X-Men franchise we will see the Fall of X storyline start to wrap up to make way for Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X in 2024. Then with Spider-Man we will see the latest Gang War that will take over New York City...

Top Takeaways From DC Comics December 2023 Solicitations

DC Comics has unveiled their December 2023 solicitations. With that we see that DC Comics is going to be ending the year by wrapping up the majority of story arcs across their many titles. That includes a major return of Green Arrow to the main DC Universe continuity. Though not everything will be positive for every hero in the DCU....

10 Biggest Takeaways From Marvel Comics November 2023 Solicitations

Marvel has released their new November solicitations. In a bit of a change up Marvel latest solicitations aren’t just for comics coming in November. Their newly released solicitations have many comic books with release dates for December. Because of that this solicitation breakdown will be a bit different in that it won’t include the titles releasing in December. The ten...

BOOM! Studios November 2023 Solicitations

BOOM! Studios has unveiled their November 2023 solicitations. Along with Darkest Hour continuing in the pages of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers we have several special issues in BRZRKR: Fallen Empire and The Space Between. Joining them are the debuts of Keanu Reeves, Mattson Tomlin, and Rebekah Isaacs' BRZRKR: Fallen Empire and Darcy Van Poelgeest & Caio Filipe Lotus Land. Find...

Movies And TV

Super Mario Crosses The $1 Billion Mark

We head into May with the summer blockbuster fully firing on all cylinders. Several contenders have been exposed as box office bombs while The Super Mario Bros. Movie has risen to the top. As always, we turn to the incredible The Numbers for the latest in box office projections. The Super Mario Bros. Movie continues exceeding all expectations and completely...

The Super Mario Bros Movie Is Still Hot But Can It Catch Frozen II?

The summer blockbuster season continues to heat up as blockbuster movies are weighing into the fray. Some are falling and others are hitting big highs. As always, we turn to the incredible The Numbers for the latest in box office projections. The Super Mario Bros. Movie took first place by crushing all competitors as it hauled in $58 million at...

It is Super Mario’s World

Now that it is April, the summer blockbuster season is beginning to heat up with several big blockbuster hopefuls entering the ring. As always, we turn to the incredible The Numbers for the latest in box office projections. This past weekend brought six new wide releases and Mario, in his second week, beat them all with little to no effort....

DC Studios Plan and 10 New Projects – Comic Book Revolution Podcast Ep. 104

In this episode, Kevin, Steven, and Rokk get together to discuss the big news from James Gunn concerning the next 8-10 years for DC Studios. The guys talk about Gunn’s interview answers to figure out Gunn’s’ vision for DC Studios going forward. The guys then dive into the ten new projects that Gunn unveiled. 55:40:10 - Intro to the 8-10...

Best Anime Of 2022 – Manga Revolution Podcast Episode 49

Welcome back to the Manga Revolution Podcast! After covering our favorite manga last week Rokk and I return with our Best Of Anime. We previously gave our collective 10 Best Anime Of 2022 that both Rokk and I voted on. For the Best of Anime 2022 podcast episode we are not just going to be covering favorite anime from each...

Toys

Buy or Pass: Mondo Masters of the Universe Skeletor Deluxe 1/6 Scale Figure

Mondo is known for delivering some of the most amazing and detailed Masters of the Universe toys at a premium price point. Well, it looks like Mondo has another expensive yet gorgeous MOTU toy headed our way. Mondo rolled out their new Masters of the Universe: Skeletor Deluxe 1/6 scale figure on June 20, 2023! This is a Timed Edition...

Vykron MOTU Masterverse Mattel Creations Exclusive: Buy or Pass?

Mattel just unveiled the pre-order for the latest Masters of the Universe figure: Vykron! This newest MOTU Masterverse figure is slated to launch on June 6, 2023, at 9 am PT. Before we discuss the merits of this latest Mattel Creations exclusive figure, let’s take a look at the history of Vykron. This character is most definitely a deep cut...

MOTU Origins Snake Mountain: Buy or Pass?

Mattel dropped the long-awaited detailed photos and video of the upcoming Masters of the Universe Origins Snake Mountain play set! And, damn, Mattel did not disappoint at all! The MOTU Origins Snake Mountain is going to be available for pre-order starting on April 28, 2023, at 6 am PT. At any rate, let’s check out the MOTU Origins Snake Mountain...

He-Skeletor MOTU Origins Mattel Creations Exclusive: Buy or Pass?

I love when I see an e-mail from Mattel arriving in my inbox teasing the release of a new Masters of the Universe Origins figure. We got one of those yesterday for the latest MOTU Origins figure. This newest MOTU Origins exclusive figure is He-Skeletor! It is slated to launch on April 11, 2023, at 9 am PT. Before we...

Buy or Pass: MOTU Origins Talon Fighter and Point Dread Playset

On March 20, 2023, Mattel dropped the mother load of all Masters of the Universe unveilings that I have ever seen. Basically, we got the reveal of every single MOTU figure and playlet for the entire year of 2023. It was insane! It was also a ton of content to go through and examine. So, I figured I would take...