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[meganbmoore]

 rightstuf.com's current sale is 33% of CMX comics, 40% off if you're in their club thingie.  I highly approve of this, as I've been waiting for that and a Go!Comi sale (which I don't think they'll ever have...another few weeks and i'll have to concede defeat and pay a bit more for a few things at Amazon...)

Has anyone read The Empty Empire, From Eroica With Love (I'm positive someone recced it to me...smillaraaq?) Key to the Kingdom, or Musashi Number Nine?

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[snarp]

Oh, and if you're in the market for magical girl shoujo crack by someone apparently suffering from a head injury, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne has you covered. The plot is that the reincarnation of Joan of Arc is an art thief (for God), but the reincarnation of Sinbad is after her. It actually makes even less sense than that.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh my. This sounds like it could be AWESOMELY deranged.

[snarp]

I'm not sure I can recommend it on the grounds that it's any good, but it goes at this premise with incredible energy. And every time you go "oh my god that's the most blasphemous thing ever," it goes and tops itself. The finale is impressive that way.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Are we talking more or less insanely brain-breaking sacrilicious crack than Let's Bible!?

[snarp]

It's kind of less overt - I don't think we ever actually see God/Satan/Jesus, and I'm certain that none of them is a girl whose shirt keeps coming open. But Let's Bible! seemed (from what I read of it, anyway) to be intentionally trying to be ridiculous, and Tanemura is perfectly sincere. In the finale we learn that (spoilers) God was lonely, so he created a multiple personality and that was Satan (this is all extra-awesome given the crap that Satan has been doing), and Jeanne weeps and touches his cheek or something and makes it better, and I think there's no more Satan anymore after that.

That's a couple thousand years of theology we're going to have to rewrite, Jeanne. Thinks a lot.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm forced to confess: Arina Tanemura is the only one to take giant shoujo eyes and sparkles to levels that scare me.

[snarp]

I think the only mangaka whose eyes rival Tanemura's face-percentage-wise is Megumi Tachikawa. (Cooincidentally, she also did a master-thief-for-God manga, Saint Tail.)