There really is no avant-garde like Japanese avant-garde, is there? I'm not sure if this is funny or exciting or ironic or...what. It makes me want to read more, at least for the time being, but I can't really put my finger on why it makes me want to read more.

It just generally kinda sucks.

In some ways, this is the kind of story I'd like to see more often from cape settings

Cut away from Baron Von Memelord's victory speech, and to a...thing...driving across the water.

Just from the cover art alone I'm already dreading this:

Continuing into the confusing and poorly drawn world of Marvel Mangaverse.

For the past ten years, Marvel Comics has been one of the big movers and shakers of American pop culture, and a massive money-making machine for the sinister rodent overlords who acquired it at the start of the decade. In the ten years preceding the MCU + Disney era, though, Marvel's successes were much more mixed.

This will be my first comic book liveblog. I was requested to go into Astro City as blind as possible, which should be easy since I'd never heard of it. In fact, I only just learned that it's a superhero story anthology and that it was published through DC comics in the last ten minutes.