Digital Inks

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It's Finished

    Michael Re takes a look back at genre tv series that are over.

Memoirs of a Jaded Otaku

    Jonathan takes time from his other projects to relate what his critical eye sees in the world of manga!

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    Jacobo Roman makes observations on all kinds of genre goodies.

Comic Book Confidential

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Parody, Paranoia, And Another Word That Starts With P That You May Guess In a Few Minutes

Posted by Jonathan L. Switzer | February 23, 2010 .

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 [...]

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Origins & Obsessions

Posted by Jonathan L. Switzer | January 19, 2010 .

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 [...]

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Our Colorfully-clad Fist-fighting Men Overseas

Posted by Jonathan L. Switzer | June 16, 2009 .

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

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The Exception to the Rule’s Exceptional Endgame

Posted by Jonathan L. Switzer | June 8, 2009 .

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

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Mania, Melodrama, and Melancholy

Posted by Jonathan L. Switzer | May 19, 2009 .

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 most comics readers under, say, twenty. [...]

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