A Joe E. Brown circus flick from the '30s dabbles with drag comedy.
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Manga Review: Ballad of a Shinigami Volume One by Asuka Izumi
A teen-plus shojo manga series centered on a benevolent death demon.
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A bracingly disturbing novel about an addictive time-ravaging drug from the master of mind-warp sci-fi.
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FOX's plus-sized reality dating show proves both subversive and overly familiar.
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Titan Books continues its deluxe reprints of a classic British boys' sci-fi adventure strip.
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A New York band releases a promising five-song debut set of alt-rock sounds.
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A new Shojo Beat comic romance manga depicts the perils of introvert love.
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The newest translated EduManga from No Starch Press instructs its heroine in Newtonian mechanics.
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The first two years of this seminal American comic strip are reproduced as part of NBM's "Forever Nuts" series of classic screwball strips.
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Retromedia's bargain boxed set collects three discs of psychotronic cheesiness.
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