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Jun. 16th, 2008 04:36 pmGraphic novels:
Delisle, Guy: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
(competing with MW for most disturbing thing I have read this week. MW has more dismemberment, but North Korea is a real-life Orwellian nightmare, which I think pushes it ahead just a tad).
Steinberger, Aimee Major: Japan Ai
(and now, for something completely different as a travel memoir. It's adorable and it's happy, and man, Go! Comi makes a nice book worth your money).
Manga:
Tezuka Osamu: MW
(this is so, so fucked up. I think it's even more fucked up than Ode to Kirihito.
I liked the bit with the journalist lady who refused to print the photos because she said they weren't interesting. I suspect a real-life tabloid reporter wouldn't have her scruples, but who knows? And it's a nice thought).
Kanari Yozaburo, story, Sato Fumiya, art: Kindaichi Case Files: The Santa Slayings
(nom nom literary popcorn.
I love Akechi and only a little bit because he's pretty. Also, for the first time, I warmed up to Kindaichi himself, I think because he was so depressed about his friend. The tiny scraps of character development, we take them when we can get them).
Hirano Kohta: Hellsing vol. 2.
Delisle, Guy: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
(competing with MW for most disturbing thing I have read this week. MW has more dismemberment, but North Korea is a real-life Orwellian nightmare, which I think pushes it ahead just a tad).
Steinberger, Aimee Major: Japan Ai
(and now, for something completely different as a travel memoir. It's adorable and it's happy, and man, Go! Comi makes a nice book worth your money).
Manga:
Tezuka Osamu: MW
(this is so, so fucked up. I think it's even more fucked up than Ode to Kirihito.
I liked the bit with the journalist lady who refused to print the photos because she said they weren't interesting. I suspect a real-life tabloid reporter wouldn't have her scruples, but who knows? And it's a nice thought).
Kanari Yozaburo, story, Sato Fumiya, art: Kindaichi Case Files: The Santa Slayings
(nom nom literary popcorn.
I love Akechi and only a little bit because he's pretty. Also, for the first time, I warmed up to Kindaichi himself, I think because he was so depressed about his friend. The tiny scraps of character development, we take them when we can get them).
Hirano Kohta: Hellsing vol. 2.