false 534309 3 A crazed doctor populates this edgy work by a manga master. 521817 1999 Black Jack Volume 1 total:125|5:41|4:54|3:27|2:3|1:0| 125 508 176 26 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 16:09:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 12:12:10 -0800 2009
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- There is (or seems to me to be) a strange dichotomy to Tezuka's presentation style with Black...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:00:59 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:09:04 -0700 2009 Astro Boy, Black Jack is a series of vignettes about an unlicensed, but genius doctor with a heart of gold who likes to pretend that he's only in it for the money.

The art is more polished than Astro Boy, and the series i...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 07:18:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 07:24:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 20:54:33 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 21:01:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false true Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 04:57:17 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 06:07:09 -0800 2008 Black Jack are really nice — thick cream-colored paper, great reproduction fo the drawings, and fantastic covers. In fact, the cover of volume one features an embossed indentation that highlights the image of a set of hook retractors opening a surgical inci...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 20 20:38:14 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 08:26:45 -0700 2008
The Atomic Bomb in many ways started...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 23 08:17:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 08:19:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 10:05:43 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 06 10:35:51 -0800 2008 1 Black Jack (ViZ, 1987)

Tezuka, who had a medical degree but never practiced medicine, was a natural to create medical-thriller manga. Thus, Black Jack. I was first introduced to Tezuka through Ode to Kirihito, and thus this more traditional manga came as something of a surp...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 22:26:35 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 20:35:18 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 30 11:04:25 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 11:05:37 -0800 2008 3 0 false true Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 15:43:25 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 13:11:34 -0700 2008 Black Jack didn't quite live up to years of hype for me. I enjoyed most of the stories, except for "Confluence," which just pissed me off. While I like stories with gender-bending, androgyny, etc., I was disturbed by the sentiment that "to have [the uterus and o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 17:48:45 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 08:58:29 -0700 2008
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