Reviewing each new set of Dark Horses Astro Boy collection presents a fresh challenge: there are only so many ways to say: Buy this comic! By now, everyone surely knows that Osamu Tezuka is not only the God of Manga, but one of the great creative geniuses of comics, his skill, innovation, and influence equaled only by Will Eisner in America and Herge in Europe. Not only that, but hes fun. Even serious Tezuka works like Phoenix and Adolf are leavened by humor and humanity, and Astro Boy is giddy, whiz-bang entertainment in its purest form. Which is not to say that Astro Boy is nothing but bubblegum. Beneath the apple-cheeked adventure runs one of Tezukas favorite, and most troubling, themes- conflict between humanity...
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Having produced over 150,000 comic pages over the course of his carrer, its easy to see why Psamu Tezua was known as the God of Manga. Astro Boy,Metropolis,and the ambitious Phoenixgraphic novel series are just a few of Tezukas creations, representing some of his best-known and most accomplished works. Nextworld, recently published by Dark Horse, is one of many Tezuka comics that had never been [roduced in an English-language edition, and it features some of his earliest work, dating back to the late 1940s. The energy that Tezuka put into every page is still evident, and readers willing to accept Tezukas streamlined, cartoony artwork will be in for a treat as they experience this classic material from the man who almost...
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