50 Percent More Ninja

June 2003

Digging for Gold

June 26, 2003

The book for this week is about a young, bespectacled lad, from a broken home who suddenly finds out that he’s to be the greatest magician ever. To be trained by some of the most powerful mages and witches, have enemies constantly trying to kill him. Plus, deal with the general pains of growing up. [...]

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Love Hurts

June 18, 2003

Back again with another recommendation. Something weird is happening in the bookshops of America these days. The biggest growth in book-reading amongst the young and teenage market ( and boys especially) is not Mr.Potter and his cohorts but, believe it or not, Manga. Nobody can understand how this came about, but it seems that good [...]

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Babes and Guns

June 11, 2003

Where do I start when describing the art of Masamune Shirow? One of the first manga artists I was introduced to, with the Eclipse printings of Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police, I knew straight away that this was an artist/writer I would stick with over the years. And so it has proved. A major influence [...]

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