A used manga bookstore provides a look across the art form’s broad history and an appreciation for the power of visual storytelling.
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Manga Review: Portrait of M & N Volume One by Tachibana Higuchi
Narcissistic boy meets masochistic girl in this serious shojo romance.
Read More »Comic Book Review: Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost #3 by Edginton and Sejic
Radical’s reimagining of the Aladdin story comes to its high-spirited finish.
Read More »Manga Review: Venus Capriccio Volume Two by Mai Nishikata
The follow-up volume to this shojo romance flounders as it drops its gender-flouting subplot.
Read More »Manga Review: Ratman Volume One by Inui Sekihiko
A comic manga series turns a 15-year-old wannabe superhero into a fang-faced "villain."
Read More »Manga Review: Rampage Volume One by Yunosuke Yoshinaga
A “mature” readers manga takes from a classic work of Chinese historical fiction.
Read More »Manga Review: Dorohedoro 01 by Q Hayashida
There’s a reason this book’s being sold shrink-wrapped.
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: StarCraft: Ghost Academy Volume One by Keith R.A. DeCandido and Fernando Heinz Furukawa
Boob socks and mad psionic skills: it's the Ghost Academy!
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: Remember by Benjamin
A Chinese graphic novelist offers two small portraits of the artist as a young man.
Read More »Book Review: Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie by Mark Millar
A glossy look at the making of the impending superhero flick begs the question, "Will we wanna read this book after its movie's been released and judged?"
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