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Parody, Paranoia, And Another Word That Starts With P That You May Guess In a Few Minutes
One of the great frustrations of my silly little meaningless life of working retail and buying too many action figures is that I don’t set aside quite enough time to read all the manga I want to be reading. There are, at this moment, eighteen unread volumes of Ai Yazawa’s NANA sitting in a pile [...] -
Origins & Obsessions
I always tell people I was doomed from the start. Before I was even born, my parents had purchased, for my cousin’s birthday, a pair of SHOGUN WARRIORS toys. The 4″ solid metal ones, a Poseidon and a Great Mazinga. They never got around to giving them to that boy, and the toys wound up [...] -
Our Colorfully-clad Fist-fighting Men Overseas
by Jonathan L. Switzer Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan By Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear, and Saul Ferris Story & Art by Jiro Kuwata Published by Pantheon Books, $29.95 www.pantheonbooks.com www.dccomics.com -
The Exception to the Rule’s Exceptional Endgame
By Jonathan L. Switzer Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 11 Story & Art by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Original Concept by GAINAX – khara Published by Viz Media, LLC, $9.99 www.viz.com -
Mania, Melodrama, and Melancholy
by Jonathan L. Switzer Honey and Clover Vol. 1 & 2 Story & Art by Chica Umino Published by Viz Media, $8.99 ea. http://www.honeyandclover.us http://www.shojobeat.com One of the big stories in the comics world for the past, oh, five years or so has been the rise of manga as the new face of comics for [...]
