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Graphic Novels

Ikigami: The Ulti­mate Limit (vol.3) (Viz Media Sig 2009) is writ­ten and illus­trated by Motoro Mase. This series is tak­ing off nicely, I must say. Are you inter­ested in a story arc about gov­ern­ment spon­sored mur­der? Where ran­dom cit­i­zens are selected to die between the ages of 18 and 24 for the bet­ter good of human­ity?
In “Ikigami: […]

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Might have to go back to post­ing graphic novel reviews on Mon­days. I’ve col­lected a ton of them this year. And yes, I am still col­lect­ing them. When you delve into this genre, it can be a bit over­whelm­ing. But there are good resources out there to help you cut through the crap and get to the good stuff.
And […]

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The Dream­ing is a graphic novel writ­ten and illus­trated by Quee­nie Chan, pub­lished by Toky­opop. It is a self-contained story and com­pleted in 3 vol­umes.
As other read­ers have noted, this manga is not typ­i­cal. First of all it is set in Aus­tralia and sec­ondly, it is writ­ten by a Chinese-Australian author. The Dream­ing can be best described […]

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Token (2008) is writ­ten Alisa Kwiteny and illus­trated by Joëlle Jones and pub­lished by MINX.
Alisa Kwit­ney, the author of my favorite con­tem­po­rary romances — The Dom­i­nant Blonde and Flirt­ing in Cars has penned a graphic novel for young adults. The author(s) did good job of enter­tain­ing me. Alisa Kwit­ney is a for­mer edi­tor of Ver­tigo and with those […]

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Kin (The Good Neighbors):Book One writ­ten by Holly Black and Illus­trated by Ted Naifeh (2008).
Holly Black, the author of YA fan­tasy nov­els such as Tithe and Iron­side, pens her first graphic novel about what else, faeries. Sur­prised? I was. I didn’t real­ize this was a graphic novel.
Rue Silver’s mother, Nia, is a faerie. She fell in love with a mor­tal who […]

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Fables: Leg­ends in Exile (2002) writ­ten by Bill Will­ing­ham and Illus­trated by Lan Med­ina is avail­able in paper­back, pub­lished by Ver­tigo and retails for $9.99 US.
This is an ongo­ing series fea­tur­ing fairy tale char­ac­ters who find them­selves uprooted from their fairy realm and liv­ing in secret exile in upstate New York.
Do you enjoy fairy tales? You […]

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Vagabond, story and art­work by Take­hiko Inoue was released back in 1998 by VIZ media, with 27 titles trans­lated in the US and #28 set to release April 2008.
The story was adapted from the novel, <a href=http://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770019572″>Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, which tells the fic­ti­tious exploits of a famous swords­man, Miyamoto Musashi (Shin­men Takezo char­ac­ter).
Look­ing for […]

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Oh, this was excel­lent. Short­com­ings is a graphic novel writ­ten and illus­trated by Adrian Tomine, pub­lished Octo­ber 2007 by Drawn and Quar­terly, 108 pages for $19.95, hard­cover novel.  Short­com­ings is a novel that focuses on two peo­ple who have more or less fallen out of love with each other.
The graphic novel touches on sev­eral issues that relate to race and […]

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Human Tar­get by Peter Mil­li­gan and illus­trated by the late Edvin Biuković , pub­lished August 2007, 104 pages, sug­gested for mature audi­ences and pub­lished by Ver­tigo, US $12.95. Human Tar­get is a min-series that was orig­i­nally cre­ated by Len Wein and Carmine Infan­tino, about a body­guard who imper­son­ates his clients to remove them from harm’s way. Peter Mil­li­gan brings back […]

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The Arrival (2007) is a graphic novel told with­out words. It is sim­ply a beau­ti­fully illus­trated novel whose word­less nar­ra­tive gives read­ers an insider’s view of what the immi­grant expe­ri­ence is like.
The story fol­lows one cen­tral char­ac­ter in a doc­u­men­tary like fashion, as he leaves his wife and young daugh­ter to make the long and ardu­ous jour­ney to a world that is com­pletely unfa­mil­iar. Courageous […]

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30 Days of Night, story by Steve Niles and illus­trated by Ben Tem­ple­smith, pub­lished Decem­ber 2004 by IDW Pub­lish­ing. This graphic novel is a straight up hor­ror story. You have a secluded town with more than 400 res­i­dents liv­ing in sub-zero weather where the sun doesn’t rise for 30 days. Wel­come to Bar­row, Alaska which turns out […]

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Vam­pire Knight, vol.3 by Mat­suri Hino is Shōjo manga pub­lished by Viz Media, released Octo­ber 2007  with a list price $8.99 and rated T for Teens (older teens). A brief recap of the story thus far: The Cross Acad­emy, headed by Head­mas­ter Cross, has two sets of classes: The Day Class and the Night Class. The Night class are made up […]

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花より男子 or Boys Over Flow­ers by Yoko Kamio was a lot of fun. Have you ever been bul­lied in high school? Ever been the uncool girl or guy in the entire school? Tsukushi Makino goes to a pres­ti­gious school, Eitoku Academy. This élite pri­vate school is for the priv­i­leged rich kids. Tsukushi is none of those things. She is smart, makes good grades but makes […]

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Are you look­ing for a fun series to read? A manga that is equal parts fun and scary? Well, it’s not quite hor­ror but more like campy, spooky fun. Hells­ing is the manga for you if you answered yes to those two ques­tions above. As the story opens, we are intro­duced to the top secret organization […]

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Pre­ludes and Noc­turnes by Neil Gaiman. Where does one even begin? I was curi­ous about Mr. Gaiman’s Sand­man series as I’m told repeat­edly, that’s it’s pop­u­lar. I had bought  End­less Nights not real­iz­ing that it was not the first vol­ume in the series. I rushed back to the store and got a copy of Pre­ludes and Noc­turnes. Here is […]

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