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Reviews of manga, comics, books and movies related to comics.

Life of a Rookie Editor: iPad! Yay!

Last week I got the chance to buy myself an iPad 2 right before my trip to Kauai. (We had lots of fun by the way.) My main motivation in doing so was not just to have a nice e-reader, … Continue reading

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Review- Gandhi: A Manga Biography

Gandhi: A Manga Biography by Kazuki Ebine is exactly what its title claims it to be: a biography about the life, struggles and death of the famous nonviolent leader, Mahatma Gandhi. This particular manga is published by Penguin Books and will … Continue reading

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Gen Manga Brings Indie Manga Stateside

Last week I was contacted by Robert McGuire, editor-in-chief of GEN Manga Entertainment about their new indie manga anthology. He offered me  a chance to read it both digitally and in print, which I happily accepted. (I don’t get review … Continue reading

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Review: Sundome vol. 1-6

Sundome, by Kazuto Okada, is a manga about extremes. The first extreme begins when Hideo Aiba, the main character, falls intensely in love with the new transfer student, Kurumi Sahana, and gets a hard on within five minutes of meeting … Continue reading

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Garage Sale Finds & Off To Fanime!

Hi everyone, Tomorrow is the official start of Fanime, one of my favorite cons in California. I’ll be attending, so my presence on this blog and on Twitter will be pretty limited. (Although I’ll still be checking in when I … Continue reading

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Tales From Out of Print: Basara

I first got into Basara by Yumi Tamura years ago. I bought the first volume and then didn’t buy the second volume until a number of years afterward. I couldn’t tell you why I stopped reading Basara for so long, … Continue reading

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Webcomics Wednesday: More Goodies

Man, it’s been a crazy three-four weeks for me. I cannot believe that I took that kind of a break from blogging, but there was a lot on my plate. (Four Hana to Yume titles, which are the most textually … Continue reading

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