Wizard 56, April 1996. Understanding Manga by Scott McCloud and more... 

Those intestines on the Wizard cover could be Omega Red's tentacles.

The Guyver has not one, but TWO American movies. Fun fact: David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, is the lead of the the second movie 'Guyver: Dark Hero'. Fun, pulpie, with cool animatronix and awesome suits.

The manga heads are Shotaro Ishinomori's Cyborg 009 and Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku.

AKIKO is a real fun all ages comic, it's most similar to BONE in tone and craft, IMO. Mark Crilley has found great success outside of comics. There's a whole line of Akiko books put out by Random House. I'm not sure if they are strictly prose, I only ever read the comics when they came out. Tabled next to Mark at a small show in Michigan (or Ohio?) in the late '90s. He's a super nice guy and great talent and deserves all the success he got. It be cool to see you guys look at an issue or two.

This came out ... tex was at my local NJ shop. Jokers child. My first ever meeting a comic creator and first time I got something signed. It was awesome. Loved this book

Paul Grist's 'Jack Staff' is well worth a look too! It goes deep into UK characters, but will work even if you don't know them

I hope you fellas will do a Barefoot Gen Vol. 1 video! I’m a high school English teacher and I was able to cobble together a class set of the book and used a few short clips of your Keiji Nakazawa/I Saw It video at the beginning of the unit. The full Vol. 1 is a top tier text for a high school classroom as both a historical document and an education on manga. Bring it on!

Yes you guys should definitely take a look at Sirius Entertainment. They published some solid stuff and had some solid talent. Drew Hayes, Dark One, Jill Thompson, Linsner, Mark Crilley and Kyle. Hotz to name a few.

I always goto the Kinokunyia in Edgewater NJ when I visit family. One of my favorite destinations.

1:29:47. That ad for Inquest magazine shown briefly talks about a promotional giveaway for the card "chaos orb". I figure it's worth mentioning this because of the history and significance of this card. This was a bizarre card. Instead of most cards which goes: play the card, read the effect on the card, then it does the action. Chaos Orb requires you to flip the card on your hand, like flipping a coin, and whatever cards it's touching gets destroyed. No other card had a physical action like this. This also led to probably the greatest example of Magic: the gathering lore/kayfabe: it goes that there was a tournament where a guy was in a bad state in his match and was trying to pull out a win. He has the brilliant idea of using his chaos orb card to take out his opponents cards, but the opponents cards are spread out too much for the orb card to hit many targets. He has the bright idea to SHRED THE CARD INTO CONFETTI and crop dust his opponents side of the table with it. There is no confirming if anyone saw it, where it happened, who did it, or even where the story got started. It's a true nerd/geek urban legend.

I have those smaller size LWC Dark Horse volumes and I believe Ed is right in that they started in that size upon release in America, because I was VERY EAGER to start collecting them after discover Shogun Assassin and AnimEigo's Baby Cart series releases. Ahhhh... Good times.

Re: Gaiman's days as a prose jobber, I was kind of gobsmacked to recently realize that the Douglas Adams biography I had devoured as a middle schooler getting into Hitchhikers Guide was written by Gaiman, too! Guy got around and had connections in the British genre lit world.

Gaiman's other early book was about Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The System by Peter Kuper is an absolute classic. Please please please do an episode on that - you won't regret it.

The Akiko creator has a RU-vid Channel ("Mark Crilley"). And he has an interesting video where he goes through his covers!

the Kinokuniya store here in Manhattan keeps all their books under plastic wrap it sucks

No one is going to mention Razor Ramon as The Punisher.

48:28 This is Riyoko Ikeda's manga The Rose of Versailles, aka Lady Oscar. Probably included to rep for shojo manga. They show up in Lupin III Part 2 Episode 101.

Gary Frank has been working most recently with Geoff Johns on the Geiger and Junkyard Joe mini-series.

48:10 Third one is Cyborg 009. The last one is anybody's guess...perhaps a character from Sazae-san? I dunno.

lone wolf and cub started in that size in around 2000 like around time they reprinted akira

Yeah. Do a bad girl comic book craze episode. 😊

Love this coverage. Listen to it at the gym.

Nice house ad art by Mike Wieringo for Ultraforce, but he never drew the comic. He replaced Jurgens on Sensational Spider-Man.

Funny to hear Ed wasn’t a comics shop kid back in the day. I kinda’ thought he’d be one of those super-serious, gatekeeper types. Glad I’m wrong

someone get this man some wizards. i know its not the best of kayfabe but i love the nostalgia

You guys are doing a show on Korean comics… please and thank you 🙏🏽 very many

The Neverwhere TV show was kind of hyped up a bit in the UK when it came out. I was living there at the time and knew Neil Gaiman from comics only, I remember watching it but I remember also it getting quite a lot of push before it came out and it played on Neil Gaimans name too, which was cool for me.

1996 Wolverine looked like a failed ninja turtle. I fucking hated that, hated the normie skeleton era. No wonder I sought out Preacher and Sandman and stray Evan Dorkin comics when possible then.

I totally forgot about Understanding Manga. I remember parts of it when I originally read this in '96 but forgot about it almost entirely. So cool to see this again. So damn important to me. Important for everyone really.