[...] 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 [...]

[...] that I’m no longer astounded by the sheer medical craziness of this classic series about a rogue doctor, I’m reevaluating why I read these stories. They do, at times, bear signs of age (especially [...]

[...] Manga Worth Reading [...]

[...] the only series of his I’ve liked, in terms of choosing to read it for enjoyment, is Black Jack. There, the exaggerated appearances match the outrageous actions. With much of the rest, I find the [...]

[...] Black JackThe legendary series by manga master Osamu Tezuka, about an unlicensed doctor and his amazingly inventive operations, comes to America. It’s as crazy as you’ve heard, but well-suited for a culture obsessed with the autopsy porn of CSI. [...]

[...] Black Jack — Demented. Excellent. Viscerally imaginative. [...]

[...] astounded that this second book contains even more far-out stories than Book 1. I didn’t think there could be such a thing. [...]

“Buddha” will probably remain my favorite of Tezuka’s works, but I’m looking forward to reading these. :)

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson recommends vol. 1 of Black Jack at Comics Worth Reading. Park Cooper reviews vol. 24 of Hunter x Hunter at Manga Life. [...]

[...] modify mechanical life), Buddha, who is often presented as something of a doctor/mystic, or even Black Jack, a later Tezuka drama about, of all things, a rogue surgeon with a disfigured face and a heart of [...]