Rosario + Vampire, Vol. 1 By Akihisa Ikeda Viz, 192 pp. Rating: Older Teen (16+) Remember Rick Moranis in Gravedale High? From my rather vague recollections of Saturday morning cartoons growing up, I remember it being about a lone human in an all-monster high school. When I first looked at the cover to Rosario + [...]

Movie Review – Iron Man (2008) Distributed by Paramount Pictures 126 minutes Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins set a very high bar for modern superhero films, one other would-be giants have struggled to leap over. With its attention to detail, faithfulness to the spirit of the comics, and well-implemented deviations that add to the mythos of [...]

The Dark Wraith of Shannara Story by Terry Brooks, Illustrations by Edwin David Del Rey, 208 pp. Rating: Teen The Shannara canon comprises a long-ongoing series of fantasy fiction novels written by Terry Brooks. The story is set far in Earth’s future, where man’s technology has majorly messed up the planet, resulting in dwarves, gnomes, [...]

Book Review – Heroes: Saving Charlie Published by Del Rey 272 pages Heroes isn’t the best TV show I’ve ever seen, but it certainly is the most entertaining television series I’ve watched in a long time. I’m a semi-casual fan of American comics, and everything about Heroes screams “live-action comic,” from the storytelling methods (such [...]

Death Note remains an enticing series, let’s just hope it doesn’t become weighed down by its own complexity.

Animation Review – Justice League: The New Frontier Distributed by Warner Premiere 75 minutes Based on Darwyn Cooke’s award-winning graphic novel, Justice League: The New Frontier is a story of DC’s most iconic heroes set amidst the uncertainty and paranoia of the Cold War. The general public has become fearful of superheroes, and the American [...]

Movie Review: Cloverfield Distributed by Paramount Pictures 84 minutes By now, you’ve probably heard something aboutCloverfield. Whether it was the original trailer that made the insufferable, shudder-inducing experience known as Transformers seem slightly less torturous, the movie proper that opened last Friday, or simple word-of-mouth from somebody who went to see it, you know about [...]

Carlos Alexandre and Erin F., our two anime experts-in-residence, offer their takes on the best (and worst) anime of 2007. Best Anime of 2007: Carlos’ Picks MUSHI-SHI, Vols. 1-3 (FUNimation) Breaking the mold of season-long/series-long continual plot lines, each episode of Mushi-Shi is a story in and of itself, having very little to do with [...]

Mushi-Shi, Vols. 2-3 Distributed by FUNimation Mushi, beings said to be life’s purest form, continue to haunt the beautiful forest-world of Mushi-Shi in the latest two volumes of this impossibly pretty anime series. And that, my friends, is a very good thing indeed. The mandate has not changed at all since volume one. Ginko the [...]

Book Review: J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge, and Beyond By David Kalat Vertical, Inc., 320 pp. I’m not a horror buff. Maybe it’s because I don’t scare too easily at the movies, or maybe it’s because the idea of undying mythological creatures and ridiculously competent psychopaths don’t mesh well with my [...]