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Buy This Book: Phoenix Volume 9
Check back later for Part 2 of the senses-shattering series on sexual morality. In the meantime, this is supposed to be a review site, so here’s a review. Yes, that means no chicken-fucking today,...
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No Ito for you, bunny!
At Same Hat!, confirmation that Dark Horse will not be printing any more volumes of Junji Ito anthology Museum of Terror. A dark, dark day indeed for the forces of good. The series sold poorly,...
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I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking...
Death Note, Volume 10, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Viz, 2007. $7.99, 208 pages. John likes cats. Susie knows that John likes cats. John suspects that Susie knows that he likes cats. Susie thinks...
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I’ll rip off your head and s**t down your neck
Hey, it’s still Wednesday in my part of the world. *** Ultimate Muscle, Vols 14 & 15, Yudetamago. Viz, 2006. Each $7.95, 232 pages. …and then there’s the really weird contest manga, like Ultimate...
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Some things I’ve read lately
Most recent depressofests I have endured: Funny Games, Anatomy of Hell and Irreversible. Funny Games is one of those have-your-cake-and-choke-on-it movies about how, like, the viewer is totally...
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I read some comics, and then I had some thoughts
These are those thoughts. Black Jack Volume 1. Osamu Tezuka. Vertical, 2008. $16.95, 288 pages. English-speaking fans of Osamu Tezuka have been hanging out for this series for a long time, our...
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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu
Good-Bye. Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Drawn and Quarterly, 2008. $19.95, 208 pages. Impotence, death, full-bodied rashes, symbolic exhibitionism. Prostitution, incest, foot fetishism and the exploitation of...
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Incognito v. Detroit Metal City
Incognito. Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Val Staples. Icon, 2009. $18.99, 176 pages. Shorter review: Oh wait you guys I think I already read this when it was called Sleeper Longer review: Narrative...
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A few words about Tezuka’s Buddha
After re-reading Phoenix, I recently decided to re-read Buddha. As was probably the case with many English readers, Buddha formed my first exposure to Osamu Tezuka’s more serious works. And it’s a good...
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Paging Rick Santorum
Forget about your Lost Girls, Big-Ass Comics or Milo Manara. Ladies and gentlemen, I present, for your edification, the single most erotic page in the entire history of sequential fiction. –Gents, you...
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