Comments on: *Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Book 2 — Recommended

By: Ed at Otakon — Saturday and Sunday » Manga Worth Reading

Ed at Otakon — Saturday and Sunday » Manga Worth Reading — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:58:32 +0000

[...] famous is Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Currently, he is co-translating the Pluto series by Urasawa. This was an unstructured panel that allowed attendees to ask any question they desired. [...]

By: *Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Book 3 — Recommended » Comics Worth Reading

*Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Book 3 — Recommended » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:38:20 +0000

[...] the end of volume two, Uran, Atom’s little sister, helped tame and recapture some loose zoo animals. This volume opens [...]

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:29:11 +0000

William, I know. I was typing that paragraph with a huge lump in my throat, holding back tears. One of the most powerful scenes I’ve read in years.

By: William George

William George — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:12:48 +0000

Brando’s final scene still makes me misty-eyed when I think of it…

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » April 27, 2009: The roar of the masses could be farts

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:58:44 +0000

[...] [Review] Pluto Vol. 2 Link: Joe Iglesias, Ed Sizemore [...]

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:58:31 +0000

I’m glad you’re pointing that out Johanna. It’s so easy to overlook that aspect of the writing. But it does make a big difference in how satisfying a read each book is.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:41:28 +0000

I was impressed by something I haven’t seen anyone mention — Urasawa does an amazing job of writing gripping cliffhangers (from chapter to chapter) at the same time the book works just fine as a novel. That’s a difficult balancing act that adds to the appeal for me.

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:32:06 +0000

Kiki,

Thank you for your kind words. I wholeheartedly agree. It’s the completely ordinary lives of the robots that makes this series so revolutionary. (I love the irony of that.) I’ve never read anything where robots were such fully realized persons in their own right. The genius here is that you stop thinking of them as robots and just relate to them as people. Part of this is because of the artwork. Urasawa knows when to step back and just let the pictures speak for themselves. It’s those wordless panels that most effectively communicate emotion and humanness.

By: Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:24:45 +0000

And now you have spoiled all other reviews of this series for me. ;) No one will be able to match you.

I’m not going to do this very well because I can’t think of the appropriate name for the quality that most appeals to me here and I won’t be able to explain it well. But here goes. I love the quietness of the book. These characters/robots go about doing their jobs very professionally – and while they’re angsting about the future and the past,they’re still performing their duties to the best of their abilities. Their worries and fears don’t become the whole of their life. They have a maturity about them that you don’t often see depicted in comic books/graphic novels (or at least I don’t see it. Maybe I’m picking up the wrong books.) And because of that quietness, the big-money moments stand out even more.

By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » It’s a Rumic, Rumic, Rumic, Rumic, Rumic World

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:20:16 +0000

[...] in blue) Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 6 of Our Kingdom (The Comic Book Bin) Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 2 of Pluto (Comics Worth Reading) Patti Martinson on vol. 4 of Record of the Fallen Vampire (Sequential Tart) [...]