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Pulp

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

20:29 / 11.04.02

Viz Comic's adult manga magazine has been cancelled. Three issues to go.

Like a lot of more experimental things in comics, parts of it were great and parts of it...weren't, but it was always worth my comics dollar. It was the first of the US "128 pages of manga) magazines and was aimed at a purely adult audince, showing that Manga could be more than robots, cute girls, big eyes, and martial arts. They did stories with romance, experimental art, gorss out gags, manga parody and other odd genres.

I look at the other two Big Manga mags (another from Viz and the one from Dark Horse) and neither one of tem take any chances. Normally when a comic goes away, I don't worry too much about it. This time, I'll miss my monthly dose of what always felt like a dip in Japan's Underground comics movement.

Murray Hamhandler

21:50 / 11.04.02

Cancelled? That must be because I picked it up for the first time ever the other day and was intrigued by what I saw. Oh, well.
Arthur Sudnam, II

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

03:36 / 12.04.02

YOU did it!!

They have three issues left according to Newsarama. Why do Americans so dislike anthology comics?

Murray Hamhandler

01:15 / 13.04.02

On the contrary. I rather like anthology titles. Or the idea of anthology titles, to be more precise. Most anthologies published in America blow goats. Flinch and the various Vertigo miniseries anthologies were okay sometimes. Blab doesn't do enough for me to warrant the price. Ditto w/Drawn And Quarterly. Off the top of my head, the only one that I can think of that I've truly enjoyed in the recent past was Zero Zero (also sadly defunct). I would like to see another really good inexpensive and non-genre-specific anthology pop up. Pulp actually looked like it might be something along those lines, but too little too late, I guess.
Arthur Sudnam, II

09:26 / 16.04.02

PULP was ok, but it was a bit expensive, which put me off buying it more often. the interviews were usually pretty good though, so it's a shame. is it still going to be available online?