MANGA MONDAY!

Manga or Japanese comics, is one of the greatest things to ever happen to the American comic market since the advent of Super-Heroes. While we know a lot of our customers only truck with the 'Merican made books we all know and love, Manga offers a VAST array of subject matter, genres, art/writing styles and situations that appeal to age groups from wee little ones to grumpy old people! Even the most jaded comic book reader will find something new and exciting in the world of MANGA!!

KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE OMNIBUS ED TP VOL 01

(W) Eiji Otsuka (A) Housui Yamazaki (CA) Bunpei Yorifuji

DARK HORSE COMICS
Five spiritualist students at a Buddhist college in Japan realize the job market is tough these days . . . among the living, that is! But the dead need jobs done too, so the five form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, carrying out the last wishes of their cadaverousclients, so their souls can move on. But the Kurosagi gang are magnets for weirdness-not just corpses-and every case gets them involved in disturbing personal obsessions, bizarre modern Tokyo fads, and strange rituals of old Japan! Collects The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volumes 1-3.

MANGA MONDAY!

Manga or Japanese comics, is one of the greatest things to ever happen to the American comic market since the advent of Super-Heroes. While we know a lot of our customers only truck with the 'Merican made books we all know and love, Manga offers a VAST array of subject matter, genres, art/writing styles and situations that appeal to age groups from wee little ones to grumpy old people! Even the most jaded comic book reader will find something new and exciting in the world of MANGA!!

Just in time for the new Netflix series, we've got brand spankin new BIG editions of Tsutomu Nihei's cyber/bio punk masterpiece, BLAME! Presented in full american size (7" x 10") rather than the normal digest editions, this is truly the best way to fully immerse yourself in the never ending machine world of the future! Follow Killy as he searches for the net-terminal genes in an attempt to rekindle the lost light of humanity against the cold machine world that has become Earth.

BLAME! GN

(W/A) Tsutomu Nihei

One of the manga world's most intriguing artists returns to the English language world with a re-release of his breakthrough work. Blame! In a dystopian future, a complex network of machines has pushed humanity to the brink. Robots known as the "Builders" continued to build a meaningless civilization with no one to reside in it. Soon these cities reach out to the outer planets and another breed of life form emerges. Master's Edition: Blame! will be released in a new oversized edition similar to Gundam: The Origin. Packaged in an oversized paperback with glossy paper and featuring dozens of color pages, each 400 page book will be a must have for collectors looking to complete their Nihei sets a decade after the original paperback went out of print.

There are currently 3 volumes available with another 3 to go...SO FREAKING HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

MANGA MONDAY (ON TUESDAY)

Manga or Japanese comics, is one of the greatest things to ever happen to the American comic market since the advent of Super-Heroes. While we know a lot of our customers only truck with the 'Merican made books we all know and love, Manga offers a VAST array of subject matter, genres, art/writing styles and situations that appeal to age groups from wee little ones to grumpy old people! Even the most jaded comic book reader will find something new and exciting in the world of MANGA!!

This week we focus on Kenichi Sonada and his loveable, violent, trigger happy and fun lovin GUNSMITH CATS! "Burst," the follow up series to first volume chronicles the further adventures of Rally and Minnie as they blow shit up and try to save enough money to pay rent. Super fun, high flying action adventure comedy from master Manga-Ka SONADA!

GUNSMITH CATS: BURST TP VOL 1-4

(W/A) Kenichi Sonada

Rally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins are two regular American girls. Regular American girls who own a gun shop, and might have dabbled in prostituion, respectively. And who happen to be a crack shot and an explosives expert, respectively.

These might be odd skills for American girls, but these two happen to be Chicago's top bounty hunters. Rally can shoot the trigger off a gun from a good distance, and May generally wreaks havoc with explosions and cuteness. And together, with some very useful friends and associates, they make up the Gunsmith Cats.

"Burst" finds our ladies back at work, back in action, and . . . back in trouble. Now presented in the favored Japanese, right-to-left format, Gunsmith Cats: "Burst" aims to please.

MANGA MONDAY!

Manga or Japanese comics, is one of the greatest things to ever happen to the American comic market since the advent of Super-Heroes. While we know a lot of our customers only truck with the 'Merican made books we all know and love, Manga offers a VAST array of subject matter, genres, art/writing styles and situations that appeal to age groups from wee little ones to grumpy old people! Even the most jaded comic book reader will find something new and exciting in the world of MANGA!!

This week we spotlight the GREATEST single samurai era epic to ever be crafted in ANY medium--Lone Wolf and Cub!! You will not find a better tale of honor, revenge and human perseverance than between the covers of this beautiful book.

LONE WOLF AND CUB TP 01

(W) Kazuo Koike (A) Goseki Kojima (CA) Frank Miller

A samurai epic of staggering proportions, the acclaimed Lone Wolf and Cub begins its second life at Dark Horse Manga with new, larger editions of over 700 pages, value priced. The brilliant storytelling of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of Goseki Kojima create a graphic-fiction masterpiece of beauty, fury, and thematic power. Collects Lone Wolf and Cub volumes 1-2, and stories from volume 3.

MANGA MONDAY!

Manga or Japanese comics, is one of the greatest things to ever happen to the American comic market since the advent of Super-Heroes. While we know a lot of our customers only truck with the 'Merican made books we all know and love, Manga offers a VAST array of subject matter, genres, art/writing styles and situations that appeal to age groups from wee little ones to grumpy old people! Even the most jaded comic book reader will find something new and exciting in the world of MANGA!!

This week we're taking a look at one of the greatest cyberpunk comics to ever come out of Japan--APPLESEED by Manga-ka Shirow Masamune! Before creating Ghost in the Shell, Shirow told the adventures of a young girl and her cyborg boyfriend as they fight cyber crime on the futuristic streets of Olympus as part of the elite ESWAT unit. Infused with Shirow's trademark future tech, political machinations and tongue n cheek humor, this is an absolutely essential book for lovers of sci-fi awesomeness everywhere!

APPLESEED TP VOL 1-4

(W/A) Shirow Masamune

You can't have a perfect society without perfect people, and the only perfect people are the ones you can manufacture. The governing body of Olympus, an urban utopia created from the ashes of World War III, is about to bring paradise crashing down around their ears as they seek to regulate the minds and bodies of the human race . . . or fully replace them with cyborg substitutes. Deunan and Briareos, still new to the city, find themselves in the unlikely position of having to hold together this house of cards. Their strategy? Destroy the old foundation and pray everything stands while new underpinnings are forged!

From the imagination of Ghost in the Shell creator Shirow Masamune comes the manga masterpiece Appleseed, an epic cyberpunk vision deftly balancing hardcore techno-science, wry political commentary, and explosive action. A visionary work that inspired the wildly popular animated film, Appleseed is now presented for the first time in America in right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.

A WHISPER IN MY GHOST...

Excited for the new Ghost in the Shell movie with Scarlett Johansson hitting theaters March 31st? Why wait the month and a half when you can delve into the original Manga by Shirow Masamune and experience the true cyberpunk classic in its purest form next to digitally downloading it to your brain! While the Anime adaptation is probably the best known version of this mind melding adventure, the Manga offers a totally different perspective including extra characters, plots, sci-fi science footnotes galore and of course, Tachikomas!! Think you know Ghost in the Shell?? Think again! Get ready to hack into the definitive version of GITS with special edition hardcovers featuring the first ever right-to-left translation to hit the U.S.! We will have volume 1, 2 and 1.5 for #NCBD on 2/22 for anyone brave enough to skim the digital depths of Shirow's masterpiece!

And check out the trailer for the new movie if you haven't watched it yet! 

 

GHOST IN THE SHELL DLX RTL HC ED VOL 01

(W/A/CA) Shirow Masamune

This deluxe edition will mark the first time the book has been published in its original Japanese right-to-left format in English. Supervised by the creator, this will be the definitive edition of The Ghost in the Shell. Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers" who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers' criminal ends.

GHOST IN THE SHELL DLX RTL HC ED VOL 02

(W/A/CA) Shirow Masamune

This deluxe edition will mark the first time the book has been published in its original Japanese right-to-left format in English.
Supervised by the creator, this will be the definitive edition of The Ghost in the Shell.
Released simultaneously with new deluxe editions of the other two books in the original series.

The long-awaited sequel to Shirow Masamune's groundbreaking The Ghost in the Shell, and one of the most highly anticipated graphic novel events in many years, Man-Machine Interface is Shirow's most ambitious and complex story yet, with deep forays into philosophy and the meaning of artificial life, intelligence, and existence. Utilizing awe-inspiring digital effects on a level never before seen in the annals of graphic fiction, Shirow has raised the bar for what can be achieved, page after page!

Story Locale: Tokyo
Series Overview: Following World Wars III and IV a Japanese-led Asian block dominates the world. A key element in the maintenance of the block's position is the elite Japanese security police, the SHELL task force. To give them an edge in their ruthless battles against terrorist groups, most of the force have had extensive cybernetic transplants that have left them only questionably human. This is an exciting and skillful work that realistically probes uses of artificial intelligence and "direct interfacing" with machines, and which questions where mankind's technological and medical progress will lead.

GHOST IN THE SHELL DLX RTL HC ED VOL 1.5

(W/A/CA) Shirow Masamune

This deluxe edition will mark the first time the book has been published in its original Japanese right-to-left format in English. Supervised by the creator, this will be the definitive edition of The Ghost in the Shell. Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents for the first time in America the "lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga. Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor has all the mind-twisting cybermadness you've come to expect from Ghost in the Shell but set in a more police-procedural context with action and suspense galore. Features the stories "Fat Cat," "Drive Slave," "Mines of Mind," and "Lost Past."

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2/1!!

DISSOLVING CLASSROOM GN

(W/A/CA) Junji Ito

A new collection of horrific tales from the master of Japanese horror manga, Junji Ito. Detailing the depths at which a teen will go to get revenge on the world, Dissolving Classroom is J-Horror at its most beatifully grotesque. Teenager Yuma Azawa transfers to a new high school but something strange seems to have followed him there. Is it a curse? Or is he cursing those who have been putting him down? Dissolving Classroom collects seven new short horror stories from Japan's master of horror comics Junji Ito.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 11/2!!

JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: STARDUST CRUSADERS HC VOL 01

(W/A/CA) Hirohiko Araki

The beginning of the Stardust Crusaders Arc! A fiendish villain once thought to be dead has resurfaced and become even more powerful! To fight this evil, the aging Joseph Joestar enlists the help of his hot-blooded grandson, Jotaro Kujo. Together they embark on a perilous adventure that will take them around the world!

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 10/12!!

I AM A HERO OMNIBUS TP VOL 02

(W/A/CA) Kengo Hanazawa

Having avoided being eaten by his zombie girlfriend and torn apart by his infected coworkers, Hideo Suzuki continues to head away from civilization and the bloodthirsty hordes taking over Japan. In a "suicide forest," Hideo finds a young girl who needs help-and who could also help him more than he realizes!

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/21!!

BLAME! GN VOL 01

(W/A/CA) Tsutomu Nihei

One of the manga world's most intriguing artists returns to the English language world with a re-release of his breakthrough work. Blame! In a dystopian future, a complex network of machines has pushed humanity to the brink. Robots known as the "Builders" continued to build a meaningless civilization with no one to reside in it. Soon these cities reach out to the outer planets and another breed of life form emerges. Master's Edition: Blame! will be released in a new oversized edition similar to Gundam: The Origin. Packaged in an oversized paperback with glossy paper and featuring dozens of color pages, each 400 page book will be a must have for collectors looking to complete their Nihei sets a decade after the original paperback went out of print.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/3!!

JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: BATTLE TENDENCY HC VOL 04

(W/A/CA) Hirohiko Araki

The conclusion of the fight against the Pillar Men! It has been a long and perilous journey for JoJo and his allies. Many battles have been fought and many lives lost. Now the final showdown with Wamuu is at hand, and armed with the red-hot desire to avenge his fallen comrade, JoJo faces an evil being so powerful it staggers the mind. Find out who prevails in this explosive finale!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2/10!!

GIGANTO MAXIA TP

(W/A/CA) Kentaro Miura

From Berserk creator Kentaro Miura comes Giganto Maxia, a science-fiction/fantasy manga of titanic proportions! One hundred million years in the future, the Empire of Olympus uses colossal mutant beasts to crush its adversaries. Only the gladiator Delos, the mystic Prome, and the titan Gohra can hope to prevent genocide!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 11/4!!

JUNJI ITO'S CAT DIARY: YON & MU GN VOL 01

(W/A/CA) Junji Ito

Horror comics author Junji Ito has recently purchased a new house and has decided to invite his girlfriend to move in with him. However, when she moves in, she comes with two cats, Yon, a strange-looking white cat with a ghastly fur pattern on its back that resembles a skull, and Mu, Yon's cute counterpart and playmate. This manga is a diary of the author's life as he tries and often fails to connect with his two feline friends. The manga is drawn in Junji Ito's horror comic style featuring intricate and finely drawn images, which when combined with the humorous story, results in a experience that is sure to bring laughter to the reader.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/25!!

TROPIC OF THE SEA

(W/A) Satoshi Kon

 The debut comic by the legendary animation director is also Kon's first comic work published in English. In a rural Japanese fishing village, the locals have long been blessed by the legend of a mermaid. Now the masses have gotten word of this myth and they are moving in on this community hoping to cash in on this mythological wonder!

Satoshi Kon, one of the best anime directors of the past 15 years finally unveils his first ever self illustrated manga--in English, too!! Known for such films as Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers, Kon is a master of multi layered and sometimes even multi dimensional storytelling that threatens to bleed through the very edges of the television deep into your subconscious where it stays like a insect, constantly clawing at you mind to try and unravel the fantastical musings of a master filmmaker!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/14!!

LITTLE FLUFFY GIGOLO PELU TP VOL 02

(W/A) Junko Mizuno

 Adventures of a space alien in search of love in an off-kilter Tokyo Pelu, the cute and fluffy gigolo from outer space, is back, determined to find himself true happiness in the form of a human bride. Pelu's quest to have a child continues to unfold across a surreal Tokyo cityscape populated by mythological creatures, loveable losers, living puppets, nymphomaniacs, and a visitor from Pelu's own home world. Will Pelu finally gain the confidence to woo a bride? Can Pelu finally find a girl willing to stick around long enough to have his baby?

Get ready for a fatal overdose of ultra cute psychedelic darkness filtered through the mighty pen of a small Japanese woman! One of the most unique artists to emerge in the past decade, Mizuno incorporates pop art stylings with dark psychedelic sexual overtones that create a nightmarish shiny and sinister world of adult fun!!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 6/12!!

LONE WOLF AND CUB 2100 OMNIBUS

(W) Mike Kennedy  (A) Francisco Ruiz Velasco

Daisy Ogami holds the key to a dying future's salvation. Powerful interests will stop at nothing to obtain Daisy, but her android bodyguard will do anything to protect her . . . and the promise of a brighter day. Collects Lone Wolf 2100: Shadow on Saplings; Lone Wolf 2100: The Language of Chaos; and Lone Wolf 2100: Pattern Storm.

What could make one the GREATEST and most EPIC tales of betrayal and revenge ever put to not just paper, but almost any visual medium, better? CYBERPUNK!! (naturally)  Released concurrently with the original Dark Horse run of Lone Wolf back in the early 2000s, I was initially very put off by the idea that a comic so perfect, so utterly completely well crafted, could be tainted by changing even one little element, that I refused to read it for years. Clearly I must have been on some shitty drugs when I made that decision cause holy crap, was I wrong! Kennedy and Velasco do an amazing job of paying homage to the original work while still keeping the reader guessing and creating an environment that feels as real as that of the Edo period the original creators worked so hard to convey. Neon, gritty alleyways, cybernetic ninjas--what's not to love? Cyberpunk is life--embrace it. RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

SHIPPING LIST FOR 6/5/13!!

Visit our shipping next week section for a list of new and back in stock items arriving on Wednesday, June 5th!!​

EMPOWERED SPECIAL #4 ANIMAL STYLE

(W/A) Adam Warren

​TERRORPIN! POWERPACHYDERM! BRASS MONKEY! CYBERIAN TIGER! SUPERCOBRA! MAUL BUNNY! Can struggling superheroine Empowered foil a mass carjacking by these animal-armored crimebots at the 21st annual Alternate Timeline Superhero Auto Show? Can one exceedingly flimsy "supersuit" overcome fourteen hostile tons of heavy metal? This action-packed new Empowered one-shot says: "MAYBE!"

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/22!!

SUNNY HC

(W/A) Taiyo Matsumoto

​What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It is the story of beating the odds, in ways that count, for a group of orphans who discover the car and let it take them to better places in their imagination. Sunny is the brand-new masterwork from Eisner Award-winner Taiyo Matsumoto, one of Japan's most innovative and acclaimed manga artists. Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias.

Taiyo Matsumoto is a genuine Manga-Ka. A completely unique, and innovative who stretches the medium to its true potential with works like Black and White, No. 5 and Go-Go Monster. His stories have a great Moebius dream like quality to them, mixed with irrational, yet totally understandable and compelling line work, characters and emotions that bury themselves into your psyche after only a few pages. Matsumoto creates worlds of childlike phantasm lined with the harsh and scary truths of the adult world.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

SHIPPING LIST FOR 4/24/13!!

Visit our shipping next week section for a list of new and back in stock items arriving on Wednesday, April 24th!!​

KNIGHTS OF SIDONIA GN VOL 2

(W/A) Tsutomo Nihei

​Nagate Tanikaze was a homeless teen living in the depths of a space colony with a thing for simulation games and stealing rice. Now he is the lead fighter pilot protecting said space colony from a race of shape-shifting space giants!

ZANADU RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2/13/13

KNIGHTS OF SIDONIA TP VOL 01

(W/A) Tsutomu Nihei

One of the manga world's most intriguing artists returns with a science-fiction tour de force which combines post-apocalyptic action, modern sci-fi video game tropes, and a traditional Japanese aesthetic. In his follow-up from the hit Biomega series, Tsutomu Nihei tackles the world of hard science-fiction by creating a modern space comedy inspired by the genre's hits from his youth.

Former architect turned crazy bad ass manga-ka, Tsutomu Nihei crafts biotech worlds of cybernetic apocalypse filled with hook handed soviet bears, techplague corporate zombies and motorcycles that put Kaneda's to shame, all blanketed in a bleak greyness of the all to real near future. A true visionary, both of Nihei's previous works, Blame! and Biomega, stand as pinnacles of not only hardcore Sci-Fi, but cyberpunk, bio-punk and any other edgy adjective placed here-punk. We can only thank our good fortune that he had the insight to realize architecture was clearly not as important as making stupid funny books for less money. RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!!!!!! (cause my ! quota was not met in the above paragraph)