Chainsaw Man #1: “Dog & Chainsaw”
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Chainsaw Man #1: “Dog & Chainsaw”

There really is no avant-garde like Japanese avant-garde, is there? I'm not sure if this is funny or exciting or ironic or...what. It makes me want to read more, at least for the time being, but I can't really put my finger on why it makes me want to read more.

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Marvel Mangaverse #1: “New Dawn” (part one)
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Marvel Mangaverse #1: “New Dawn” (part one)

For the past ten years, Marvel Comics has been one of the big movers and shakers of American pop culture, and a massive money-making machine for the sinister rodent overlords who acquired it at the start of the decade. In the ten years preceding the MCU + Disney era, though, Marvel's successes were much more mixed.

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Astro City: “The Nearness of You”
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Astro City: “The Nearness of You”

This will be my first comic book liveblog. I was requested to go into Astro City as blind as possible, which should be easy since I'd never heard of it. In fact, I only just learned that it's a superhero story anthology and that it was published through DC comics in the last ten minutes.

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