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The story with a hole in

Advantages: great drawings, original storyline
Disadvantages: can be hard to find cheaply, slightly weak story

I don’t remember much about my childhood, but the one thing I always remember was Dad bringing the magazines home on Saturday lunchtime. Whilst I grew through magazines, starting with Twinkle, and then Oink, and finally Smash Hits, my brothers resolutely ...

pesky33 30.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Hewligan's Haircut - Pete Milligan, Jamie Hewlett

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With the Winter, Comes the Snow

Advantages: begins to fill in parts of the past, revealing motivations
Disadvantages: more twists and turns will leave the unwary behind

...Rather than merely moving us forward, this volume of the Vampire Knight saga is one that sends us into the past, where the reflections of things gone by echo in the deadly chess game being played behind the scenes of the vampire and human worlds. First, h ...

Shroud 21.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Vampire Knight Vol. 3 - Matsuri Hino

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Genderbending Tea Parties

Advantages: innocent fun, lovely art, interesting characters and storyline
Disadvantages: subtle inferences might be overlooked by younger readers, but nothing that interferes with the sto

Ah, companionship. We all long for it, and in Japan, you can pay for it if you go to a host or hostess club. Hostess clubs in the West are usually those places where the waitresses wear bunny ears and the like and serve drinks, and maybe something else if ...

Shroud 19.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ouran High School Host Club - Bisco Hatori

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A High Standard for Ouran High School Host Club

Advantages: Very funny, good character art, excellent backgrounds, good stories.
Disadvantages: Odd translations, variable artwork at beginning of volume.

I originally started reading Ouran High School Host Club (OuHos) having seen the anime of the same name and really enjoyed it. General Summary The basic plot revolves around a scholarship student named Haruhi Fujioka, whom stumbles in upon the "Host C ...

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Review of Ouran High School Host Club - Bisco Hatori

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Does a picture really paint 1,000 words?

Advantages: Truly incredible book.
Disadvantages: Only that no more Young Bond books are available in this format.

My six year old son has recently finished reading Silverfin, in the regular paperback form. I was extremely surprised to see a child so young so enthralled by spy thriller, even if it a young adult version. Although he loved the book - in fact he h ...

Marge3781 28.11.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Silverfin: The Graphic Novel - Charlie Higson

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