No Guns Life, Vol. 1
No Guns Life is a textbook example of “robo noir,” a story that borrows tropes from Double Indemnity and The…
Tag: Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi
Girls’ Last Tour, Vol. 1
Was Tsukumizu an architect in a previous life? That question lingered with me as I read volume one of Girls’ Last Tour, a…
Manga Artifacts: The Legend of Mother Sarah
Most American manga fans know Katsuhiro Otomo as the creative force behind AKIRA and Domu: A Child’s Dream, but Otomo’s catalog also includes…
Harmony
VIZ launched its Haikasoru imprint in 2009, with the goal of bringing Japan’s best speculative fiction to the US. Haikasoru’s…
Silent Möbius, Vol. 1
I like science fiction, I really do, but I have limited tolerance for certain tropes: futures in which all the…