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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review: Monstress Volume 1

The Shaman-Empress was the most powerful Arcanic who ever lived…and she was a Sciencemaster of the highest order. She created technology and magics that would make us look like we’re living in the dark ages. And she buried it with her. The bitch. After a crazy few months things are calmed down enough for me

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Review – Tyson Hesse’s Diesel

If you haven’t picked up Tyson Hesse’s Diesel #1 from BOOM! Studios yet, you need to. Whether you’re a fan of manga, steampunk, adventure, or smartass, overly-confident airship captains (in training) there’s something for you to like.

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Comic Books
Christin Tomaschke

Old Classics: Rurouni Kenshin

The 1990’s gave us enormous perms, hilariously awkward fashions, and bizarre fads. But as many of us revel in our childhood memories of Pokémon cards and pogs, we tend to forget one of the greatest gifts that the 90’s gave us: epic and groundbreaking manga series. Among those gems is Nobuhiro Watsuki’s riveting series Rurouni

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Old Classics: Adolf

Adolf, written by the father of manga Tezuka Osamu, is not your basic average manga.  Rather than using fluffy shoujo plot devices or muscly shounen characters, Adolf ties together three different worlds in a political thriller both intelligent and captivating. Synopsis Adolf, by father of manga Tezuka Osamu, is a microcosm of three distinct societies during the

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Reviews
Christin Tomaschke

New Series: Rurouni Kenshin- Kinema-ban

Since the original Rurouni Kenshin series is responsible for my ten-year long manga and anime addiction, I was absolutely thrilled to hear that this classic series is being revisited. Almost thirteen years after its final chapter was published in Weekly Shounen Jump, Rurouni Kenshin is back in business with the debut of Rurouni Kenshin- Kinema-ban,

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Comic Books
Christin Tomaschke

Old Classics – Ouran High School Host Club

I’d be lying if I told you that every single thing about this manga and anime is ground-breaking or original. Let’s face it: the human race has been around for a long time, and we are running out of totally new and innovative ideas. So what makes Ouran High School Host Club, an anime and

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review: Scissors, Paper, Stone

Sorry for the lag time between reviews. I’d been hoping one of the books I’ve been reading would turn out to be so amazingly awesome I’d just have to write the best review ever. Sadly, this was not the case. (Looking Glass Wars was just a little underwhelming. You too, Dead Witch Walking.) So I

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Sailor Moon Returns to the US in September

Kodansha USA , announced today the revival of Sailor Moon manga series.  The last edition of Sailor Moon was published in mid 2005. Brand new deluxe editions of the acclaimed series will be released by Kodansha USA’s Kodansha Comics imprint in September 2011. Out of print for six years, SAILOR MOON re-launches along with Takeuchi’s

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