Remember the good ol' days when a new Star Wars movie took three years to make, and no one was certain that George Lucas was going to get around to Episodes I, II, and III? I miss those days; new installments felt like a cause for celebration and not a dutiful obligation, and the … [Read more...]
The Manga Revue, 4/16/18
Today's super-sized Manga Revue comes to you courtesy of Patriot's Day, my second favorite Massachusetts-only holiday. (The first is Evacuation Day, a thinly-disguised attempt to give Boston's civil servants permission to skip work on St. Paddy’s.) In addition to a bumper crop of … [Read more...]
Silver Spoon, Vol. 1
The title of Hiromu Arakwa's latest series is a pointed reference to Kansuke Naka's The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Japanese Boyhood. First serialized in the pages of the Asahi Shimbun in 1913, The Silver Spoon traced Naka's journey from childhood to adolescence through a series of … [Read more...]
Baccano!, Vol. 1
There are two things you need to know before you read this review. First, I'm a ride-or-die Godfather II fan, the kind of person who's obsessively watched Robert DeNiro's performance as the young Don Corleone more times than I can count. Second, I am not a Light Novel Person, … [Read more...]
A Polar Bear in Love, Vol. 1
Don’t be fooled by the cute cover: A Polar Bear in Love is neither gag strip nor conventional rom-com about an improbable couple overcoming their differences. It’s a fitfully amusing, sometimes melancholy reflection on what it’s like to fall in love for the first time, filled … [Read more...]
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