Overlooked Manga Festival Special Event!

[shaenon]

No new Smithson this week; Brian has a family emergency to deal with. He did, however, put up a sweet sketch of Darryl O'Doyle, everyone's favorite commissured Irish poet. Well, favorite of everyone except the characters plotting to kill him, I guess.

There is, however, a new installment of The Chronicles of William Bazillion, wherein Wiener

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[ex_khyungbi]

This particular choice was a little arbitrary on my part, as in some ways both IRONCAT and HURRICANE GIRLS are more interesting than CENTRAL CITY (and equally bad). CENTRAL CITY is basically just derivative and unfinished. However, at least in its American presentation, it also has a bit of that indy-comics "Look how cool my comic is going to be -- wait, I will never do another issue" sad deflated pomposity. (I'm one to talk with my recent drawing track record...)

On the other hand, IRONCAT is just a totally inane, badly drawn, unfinished dojinshi. HURRICANE GIRLS is probably the most interesting of the three because it really feels like you're reading some bad comics that somebody posted on deviantart... or would have posted on deviantart if deviantart existed in the early '90s. It's a bunch of one- or two-issue series drawn in different styles, with no continuing characters, and with some of the most confusing and awkward art I've ever seen in a manga. My theory is that HURRICANE GIRLS is a bunch of dojinshi stories by one of Ippongi Bang's assistants. CENTRAL CITY was boring and generic but HURRICANE GIRLS was literally painful to read. However, HURRICANE GIRLSl is in so inept and weird that it's kind of distinctive, though I still wouldn't recommend any but the most masochistic people seeking it out.

Incidentally, this list doesn't include porn or BL manga. If it included porn, there'd be no end to it.

[hermes_bag]

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