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KEEPING IT GHASTLY: Blame! Volumes 1-3
ComicsBulletin~ *Ssssssnifffff* Smell that? That reek of sweat, urine, fetid organic material, steel, blood and adrenaline? That’s the smell of Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei, the H. R. Giger of Japanese...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Reptilia
ComicsBulletin~ Reptilia – a Japanese slasher manga. A hidden killer who won’t stay down, an innocent, young last-girl constantly being chased by said killer, and if you count “Goosebumps” logic then...
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KEEPING IT GHASTLY: Lullabies from Hell
ComicsBulletin~ I keep finding more and more Hideshi Hino manga in used book stores and comic book shops. Publishing companies in the mid 2000s was very, very into this particular creator. Rightly so,...
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KEEPING IT GHASTLY: Parasyte Vol 1
ComicsBulletin~ It does my little shriveled heart good to see a horror manga that has continued to thrive. Despite the many times that this story has switched publishers, and in spite of the difficulty...
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KEEPING IT GHASTLY: Fragments of Horror
ComicsBulletin~ I knew it! I knew if we all prayed hard enough more Junji Ito comics would be published in the US! And lo, it was so. Thank you Viz Media, LLC for making our June 2015 PREVIEW order...
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KEEPING IT GHASTLY: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Services Omnibus vol 1
ComicsBulletin~ Very few manga have the staying power to remain in print format in the US. Sites like Crunchyroll cater to those who are looking for legally available licensed english translations, but...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Another
ComicsBulletin~ Welcome to 2016! In the last week Iran and Saudi Arabia have been at each other’s throats, the gun debate in the US has reached a tipping point, and North Korea has claimed a successful...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Biomega Vol 1
ComicsBulletin~ 2016 is turning out to be a Sci-fi horror year for me. I rewatched The Thing, Event Horizon and Alien, read Parasyte vol 1 for Comics Bulletin, and now I get to review Biomega?! This is...
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Keeping It Ghastly: The Drifting Classroom Vol 1 & 2
ComicsBulletin~ What time is it? Kazuo Umezu time! From the creator of Scary Book, Orochi: Blood and Reptilia comes a sci-fi horror series aptly named The Drifting Classroom. Set in the early 1970s...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Hino Horror Vol 2: The Bug Boy
ComicsBulletin~ From an initial reading there isn’t anything particularly outstanding about Hino Horror Vol 2: The Bug Boy. The artwork is chunky and the dialogue is dated. Hideshi Hino’s story of a...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Blood Sucker – Legend of Zipangyu Vol 1
ComicsBulletin~ Resurrected three centuries after his defeat at the hands of the samurai Naonosuke, the powerful vampire Migiri has reasserted himself as a powerful enemy of humanity. With his cult...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Nijigahara Holograph
ComicsBulletin~ This time on “Keeping It Ghastly” I’ll be crawling out of the catacombs of my English-language horror manga collection and going over something a little more recent – Inio Asano’s 2006...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Franken Fran Omnibus Vol 1
ComicsBulletin~ It’s the stuff of 1950s and 60s double features that drives Katsuhisa Kigitsu’s stories of grotesque medical misadventure. Fran Madaraki is the creation of Dr. Madaraki, the most feared...
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Keeping It Ghastly: I Am A Hero Ombnibus Vol 1
ComicsBulletin~ Hideó Suzuki has a hard time with social interactions, but when he’s alone it all seems alright. He has locked doors to keep out intruders, an imaginary friend to talk to, and a rifle...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Anomal
ComicsBulletin~ Anomal is a collection of short stories that is loosely centered around yokai and things of a generally supernatural origin. (I say generally because chapter three is a detective story...
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Keeping It Ghastly: Magical Girl Apocalypse Vol 1
ComicsBulletin~ The tag line reads, “Not your mommy’s magical girls”. Oh boy is that the truth. This time on “Keeping It Ghastly” we’ll be taking a look at the seinen zombie-magical girl mashup series...
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