Blood on the Tracks, Vols. 1-5

One part Mommie Dearest, one part Kids, Blood on the Tracks is an unsettling depiction of the toxic parent-child relationship…

Happiness, Vols. 4-7

  This review contains a few spoilers for later volumes of Happiness, and discusses one character’s efforts to cope with PTSD…

The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 2

Do you remember the first time you tried to impress someone on a date? I do: I was fifteen, and…

Drifting Net Cafe, Vol. 1

It takes nerve — nay, stones — to update Kazuo Umezu’s bat-shit classic The Drifting Classroom. That’s exactly what Shuzo…

The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 1

If you grew up in a small town, you probably knew someone like Takao Kasuga, the nebbish-hero of The Flowers…