Junji Ito. Viz, $17.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4215-8079-1
Visceral horror dominates this mature-audiences short story collection that makes up for what it lacks in variety and quality of storytelling with creepy visuals. Though Ito (Uzumaki) is best known for his inhuman creatures, “Gentle Goodbye,” about...
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Junji Ito. Viz, $22.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4215-7915-3
Ito (Uzumaki) plumbs the murky depths of the ocean in this gruesome tale. While on vacation in Okinawa, a young couple encounters a fish attached to a mysterious pair of metal legs. Despite being beaten, forced into a bag, and visibly decomposing,...
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Junji Ito. Viz, $34.99 (752p) ISBN 978-1-4215-9056-1
J horror, a catch-all phrase for the distinctly Japanese flavor of scary narratives, is a genre rife with flesh-crawling eeriness, visceral body horror, and ambiguous motivations. American horror comics can seem simplistic and inarticulate in intent
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Junji Ito, Author, Junji Ito, Illustrator . Viz $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-56931-714-3
The townspeople of Kurôzu-cho are being haunted by a strange infection of spirals. When corpses are cremated, the smoke forms a black spiral in the sky, and the clouds form swirls like those in Van Gogh's The Starry Night. Soon, things...
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Junji Ito, trans. from the Japanese by Jocelyne Allen. Viz, $22.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-974717-47-7
Eisner winner Ito (Uzumaki) builds relentless tension that explodes into chaos in this nightmarish science fiction manga epic. An astronomer discovers a new planet and names it after his teenage daughter Remina, turning both the planet and the girl...
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Junji Ito, trans. from the Japanese by Jocelyne Allen. Viz, $19.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-974718-90-0
Ito (the Uzumaki series) retains his crown as manga king of body horror in this time-twisting thriller that expertly blends science fiction and religious occultism. Kyoko Byakuya, a young woman hiking around the volcanic Mount Sengoku in Japan, is...
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