Short Takes: Deadman Wonderland and Livingstone
The November release of Jinsei Kataoka and Tomohiro Maekawa’s Livingstone provided me a nifty excuse to try Deadman Wonderland, an earlier series written…
Reviews
Say I Love You, Vols. 1-3
Back in the 1980s, filmmaker John Hughes peddled an intoxicating fantasy to thirteen-year-old girls: you might be the class misfit–the…
Komomo Confiserie, Vol. 1
Flip through The Big Book of Shojo Plotlines, and there – between “I’m Having an Affair with My Homeroom Teacher”…
Ultraman, Vol. 1
Dusting off a beloved franchise and making it appeal to a new generation is a hazardous undertaking: stray too far…
A Brief History of Manga
A Brief History of Manga is an odd duck: it’s too short and impressionistic to be a reference work, but…