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November 10, 2010 Johanna Other Manga Publishers 4 comments

A Drunken Dream and Other Stories

Guest review by Ed Sizemore As the title indicates, A Drunken Dream and Other Stories is a collection of short stories spanning the career of Moto Hagio. Hagio is considered one of the pioneers, not only of shoujo manga, but also the boys love genre (non-explicit, romantic stories of boys/young men) and by extension yaoi (explicit, romantic stories featuring men). This book serves as an introduction to both Hagio and her body of work. Drunken Dream contains a wide variety […]

September 7, 2010 Johanna Vertical Manga Reviews 4 comments

Chi’s Sweet Home Volume 2

Thanks to a gift from fellow reviewer Ed Sizemore, even though I didn’t like the first book of Chi’s Sweet Home, I read the second by Konami Kanata. And everything I disliked about the previous volume had been fixed! This book was the “cute cat doing cute things” comic I’d come to expect from hearing others praise it. All of the out-of-place depressing “I miss my mom” stuff was gone. The overdone lisp in the cat’s internal voice had been […]

August 20, 2010 Johanna Viz Manga Reviews 2 comments

Bakuman Volume 1

Review by Ed Sizemore Akito Takagi is 14 years old and dreams of being a manga writer. However, he’s not a good artist, so he needs one as a partner. Moritaka Mashiro is Akito’s classmate and a gifted artist. He wanted to be a manga artist until he saw his uncle work himself to death in that job. After much arm twisting, Akito convinces Moritaka to join him. Together, they seek to become successful manga creators (called mangaka). Bakuman is […]

January 15, 2010 Johanna Viz Manga Reviews Leave a comment

20th Century Boys Volume 6

Review by Ed Sizemore The Kana storyline from volume 5 continues. Britney, one of the regulars at the restaurant where Kana works, has witnessed a murder and is being sought by the police and hunted down by the killer. Kana makes arrangements for Britney to get out of town and to stay with her grandmother. However, things get complicated fast as it turns out that Britney has stumbled upon something much bigger. Volume 6 also introduces us to Kakuta, a […]

December 7, 2009 Johanna Other Manga Publishers Leave a comment

A Distant Neighborhood Volume 2

Guest review by Ed Sizemore **Warning: This Review Contains Spoilers** Hiroshi Nakahara is a 48-year-old architect who finds himself mysteriously transported back to when he was 14 with all his knowledge and memories intact. He soon realizes that this is the period just before his father mysteriously abandoned his family, and he has resolved to stop him. Since Hiroshi has already successfully altered portions of his past, he’s confident he can make this change, too, in A Distant Neighborhood volume […]

October 30, 2009 Johanna Other Publishers Leave a comment

The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb

Review by Ed Sizemore Crumb doesn’t follow any organized religion; in fact, he might be an atheist. In the introduction to The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb, he tells us that he doesn’t believe that the Bible is the Word of God, or even inspired by God. Yet he strove to produce the most straightforward, faithful-to-the-text, illustrated version of Genesis. And succeeded. Every word found in the Biblical text is included in Crumb’s version. Further, Crumb didn’t make […]

September 18, 2009 Johanna Viz Manga Reviews Leave a comment

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Volume 5

Guest review by Ed Sizemore Gesicht has been assigned to guard Adolf Haas and his family. Haas’ former colleagues have decided he’s a liability and want him dead before he can reveal too many of their secrets. But Gesicht is starting a personal crisis as buried memories begin to surface, revealing shocking details of his past. Also in this volume, Hercules faces off against Pluto, while Uran, Professor Ochanomizu, and Professor Tenma all have to come to grips with what […]

August 26, 2009 Johanna Viz Manga Reviews 8 comments

20th Century Boys Volume 4

Review by Ed Sizemore **Warning: This review contains spoilers.** With this volume, the narrative jumps ahead three years to the summer of 2000. We finally discover what happened to Otcho since he disappeared twelve years ago in 1988. We also discover what happened to Professor Sikishima and his family. Remember, volume 1 opened with police investigating the Sikishima family’s disappearance. On a structural level, 20th Century Boys volume 4 is really about tying up some loose ends and reintroducing Otcho […]

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