Stunning and hilarious. In competition with Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle for the best book I've read this year.
The Barks stories are four star, as always. I don't really love the coloring job here, though. Doesn't seem quite true.
Not nearly as good as "The Double", but very much a worthwhile read. Must read Blindness this summer.
Better than the last one. Seems like I'm done with this title, though...Amazon lists the next one as coming out January 20 2009??? This one came out in September of '07. that's a bit too long between issues for me, thanks.
Great finish to a classic hardboiled gangster tale about a Japanese weeping assassin and a host of hilarious characters. And as always with Kazuo Koike, character is king.
Should be 3 and a half stars. Totally hilarious, and the characterization is great. I was sad to see them graduate at the end, knowing they wouldn't crack me up anymore. Highly recommended.
I always want to like these Flight books more than I do. There's a couple good stories and the art is generally good, but in large measure the storytelling is.....well, mostly pretty lame.
Should be 2 and a half stars. Not bad, but a little thin on substance.
A bit uneven at times, but the work that's good in this thing is amazing. The King Terry stuff is hilarious. Great if you like Japanese and Canadian "art comix" stuff.
This was a not bad horror read, but it might have been nice if they indicated more clearly that it was gonna be part of a damned trilogy. 460 pages and a million loose ends.
Pretty good, but it lacks strong characters and the narrative drive is way less compelling than either Kafka or my personal favorite The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Still, halfway good Murakami is still better'n most.
love these Dark Horse Harvey reprints...
Great reprint of classic Harvey comics stuff. Can't wait for more volumes in this reprint series--I've already got the Richie Rich one in the queue.
Nice pencil work and well researched . A solid effort from the good folk at The Center For Cartoon Studies.
Japonisme in Western Painting from Whistler to Matisse (Cambridge Studies in the History of Art) by Klaus Berger
Great historical overview of the influence of Japanese art on modernist art.
Not quite as strong as the last one, but still a quality outing. Love the Souther Salazar piece especially.
Hilarious and weird manga about a bunch of Buddhist oddballs who work for corpses in modern day Tokyo. Thank you, Dark Horse.
This is a great and original manga that delves into territory that is often untouched upon in comics.
While I agree with the author about the food police, her oh-no-i-ate-well-as-a-rich-girl-but-things-just-aren't-the-same-today schtick gets old about 25 pages in. Add in her inconsistency and general annoyingness and what could have been a great book becomes a fairly tepid one.
A really nice survey of a great Japanese modernist architect. Better at covering the early part of his career, but solid overall.
Pretty darn good for 250 pages, but then it unfortunately limps to the finish line. Not a bad Halloween book, but I liked her first one better.