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The premise of Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit is fascinating, both in terms of human nature — what would you do if you knew 24 hours before you were going to die? — and Japanese society in particular, as the country has created a law and bureaucracy to make that happen.
Ikigami: The ...
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After the time jump shown in the previous book , I shouldn’t be surprised with the major twist in this volume, but I was still stunned when it happened. Being left shocked and confused, though, just puts me in the same place as many of the characters in this sprawling story.
20th ...
Indie
The Boys
Hikaru Shindo gave up the game of go in the last volume , but here, he’s found new purpose in playing tournaments and continuing to strive for pro status.
Hikaru no Go Book 17 Buy this book
He sees the memory of the departed Sai in the games he plays. He’s passed a major ...
Dark Horse
by Ed Sizemore
Tezuka and Astro Boy as a stamp
This has been a good year for English-language Osama Tezuka fans. Vertical is printing his Black Jack series in beautiful editions. DMP published Tezuka’s experimental manga, Swallowing the Earth . Frederick Schodt is touring the country ...
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Osamu Tezuka
Tomorrow at 7:30 PM Eastern, the Defenders guest-star on The Super Hero Squad Show . This reworking of Marvel superhero characters for kids airs on the Cartoon Network. Here’s the plot description:
Baron Mordo transforms Iron Man into the evil “Iron Menace”, a deadly ...
Marvel
Defenders
Iron Man
Valkyrie
KC and I really enjoy Castle , the mystery show with Nathan Fillon ( Firefly ) as a thriller writer who helps the police solve murders.
Castle: The Complete First Season Buy this DVD set
So since the Complete First Season DVD set has been on deep discount this week ($17 bucks or so ...
Marvel
Frank Castle
To promote Up coming out on DVD last week, the publicity group sent this set of images showing how the movie was put together. I thought you might be interested in seeing how a scene developed. Click the images to see really large versions.
The storyboard
The start of image generation
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Vertigo
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This manga, a romance in a magical fantasy
setting, has enough humor to make it an enjoyable
read for the young and young-thinking. The Lizard Prince Book 1 Buy this book As explained in the author’s notes, this book is Asuka Izumi’s ...
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The Lizard Prince Book 1
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Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics ...
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Warner has announced a trade-in program called DVD2BLU . In short, you choose DVDs to trade in, you pay $8 or $10 a disc (plus $5 shipping if you order less than $25 worth), and you get Blu-Rays in return. (US only, allow 4-5 weeks to receive replacement.)
Now, this is a nice offer if you ...
Fantagraphics
Ray Park
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Via the Icarus Publishing blog (maybe NSFW) I
found this story. Simon says: Writer/editor/publisher Robin Bougie learns
that Cinema Sewer , his comic/magazine hybrid about porn, cinema, and porn cinema, was recently torrented en masse. … The ...
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The Hypocrisy of File Sharers
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Yesterday morning, via their blog Journalista , Fantagraphics
announced that The Comics Journal ’s final print issue
as a magazine, issue #300, would be put online in full for free. They were promoting their upcoming plans to expand the TCJ.com ...
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PR: What Not to Do: Free Online Bait and Switch
The complex setup for this series is mostly wasted in its episodic chapters, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, if you enjoy the stand-alone stories that result.
Detective Toyama is sent to pretend to teach a fifth-grade class because their former teacher mysteriously killed ...
Other
KC’s column this month at the Westfield Comics site recollects what it was like working for a comic distributor in the early 80s, with overnight breakdowns and repacking of comics. Plus, the Poison Room, Mount Baron, soda cans, cockroaches, a bidding war, and an unusual use for the boss’ ...
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Book 4
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Book 4 Buy this book
by Koji Kumeta, Del Rey Manga, $10.99 US, due out November 24
I have given up trying to make sense of all the Japanese references in this series . Although there are plenty of endnotes, I’d rather just ...
Marvel
Princess Diana
I don’t think I’ve laughed so much at any movie in a theater as I did at Pirate Radio . (Known as The Boat That Rocked in its original UK release.)
Like Richard Curtis’ other feature as writer/director, Love Actually , it’s a sprawling story with a variety of goofy ...
Fantagraphics
Sachiro has just declared her love for an upperclassman, because she thinks he’s adorable in his glasses, but he turns her down flat. Then she moves in with her mother, whom she’s never met [1], Mom’s new husband, and her new stepbrother … who turns out to be the same ...
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I realized that this webcomic series had put out a new collection purely by serendipity — I found myself wondering what had happened to it and visited the website just in time to see that the second book was available. I was thrilled, since the first book was one of my top 10 of 2007.
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I loved Up when I first saw it in theaters this summer, so I knew that I wanted to own it when it was released on DVD. I just wish Disney didn’t make it so difficult.
Up (Blu-Ray) Buy this DVD
As is typical of their recent releases, they’re strongly pushing the Blu-Ray edition, ...
Other
What a clever format for a how-to book!
The Manga Artist’s Workbook Buy this book
The book is bound with a top spiral, and the content — repackaged from Hart’s Manga for the Beginner: Everything You Need to Start Drawing Right Away — is presented in such a way that ...
Indie
Review by Ed Sizemore
Maria Holic Book 1
Maria Holic Book 1 Buy this book
by Minari Endou; adapted by Clint Brickham; Tokyopop, $10.99 US
Kanako Miyamae is a high school sophomore transferring to Ame No Kisaki, an all-girl missionary school. Kanako is a lesbian, but she isn’t ...
