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Tetsuo: The Bulletman
In my book, Shinya Tsukamoto can never completely stink. This is the man who gave us the original Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a film so deranged the first time I watched it I thought it was gonna melt inside my VCR all on its spontaneous own. But this is the third time he's been over this particular territory, which makes that ... what? First time ( Read more... ) -
Tragic Books Dept.
Over at Ain't It Cool News there is a roundtable discussion regarding the much-reviled, widely-discussed DC Reboot. I haven't been a reader of the Marvel/DC axis for literally decades, so many discussions of the individual titles (Infinite Earths in its infinite permutations, for one) are lost on me. But there is a ton of meat in this piece re: the ( Read more... ) -
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Yu Kinutani)
Do I complain or do I savor? That’s the dilemma I’m faced with after reading this manga adaptation of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ...
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Black Jack #14 (Osamu Tezuka)
The closet-cleaning for the Black Jack series continues, since everything after volume 11 has been bonus material. But this being Black Jack and this also being Osamu Tezuka, it’s a fascinating closet...
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Blu-Eyed Soul Dept.
I haven't done this in a while, so here are some recent Blu-ray issues that grabbed my attention. Some will end up on my own shelf by year's end or so....
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Lychee Light Club (Usamaru Furuya)
There was a time when I sought out writing and artwork that seemed to exist mostly to find rules to break. William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maldoror, Eden Eden Eden, The Consumer ...
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Lose Yourself In This Dept.
I’ve heard a theory-I forget who originally floated it-that the length of the average mass-market genre fiction work has gone way up due to two things: the demands of the market and the invention of the word processor.
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