I do think he maybe fails as a critic in his evaluation of Tekkon Kinkreet, which I just read the other night and thought was amazing. I speak as someone who reads very little manga. For me, it’s comparable to American stuff like Gary Panter’s Jimbo Adventures In Paradise and Brian Chippendale’s Ninja. (I picked up a copy of and older printing of Black And White before I was familiar with that stuff, and was expecting something more like Paul Pope, and so was flummoxed.) Which is not necessarily the type of stuff I’d expect a Guardian blogger to talk up, and so I can imagine not recommending, but that I would expect a Comics Journal staffer to be sensitive to.
It is weird that Tatsumi wasn’t recommended though.
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