![]() ![]() The pacing and structure of manga is very different from American comics or Bande Dessinee, with the action unfolding in a cinematic manner that might spread a single action sequence over a dozen (or dozens of) pages, when an American comic would compress the same material to five, & Eurocomics might do it in one or two. ![]() 'Vagabond' is another series that demands a commitment at the outset of the relationship, but it's pragmatic, not pathetic. particularly since manga titles can regularly match the epic length - if not the narrative grandeur - of 'Lone Wolf & Cub', which meant drowning myself in 9000 sublime pages of bloody vengeance, the agonizing dilemmas imposed by devoting oneself to the code of bushido, and dragging along a toddler on the path to Meifumado (the Buddhist 'Hell'-analog) or 'Berserk', with >40 volumes * of weird, pseudo-European fantasy that cranks the gore to 11 and sucks you in with Kentaro Miura's incredibly detailed, virtuosic draftsmanship, and his idiosyncratic, occasionally soapy story-telling. ![]() I'm a fan of manga who remains very selective about the titles I read. Vagabond & the Sexy-As-Fuck Topic of Western vs. ![]()
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