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Title: Kabuki: Circle of Blood by David Mack, Connie Jiang ISBN: 1-887279-80-6 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great action comic
Comment: Kabuki is an outstanding story. The drawing, especially the figure drawing is great. The story - super-spy-babe on a mission of vengeance - has a used look, but Mack adds enough detail to keep it from looking used up. Best, Mack has put some real knowledge of Japanese culture and history into the story. It's not all pleasant history, but not all history is pleasant.
The artwork is all black and white. I like that, when it's used well, and Mack uses it to the fullest. The drawing styles are varied and expressive. My only complaint is that some of the white-on-black lettering eroded during reproduction. To print well using inexpensive paper and process, the white-on-black should have had a heavier line weight. Ink naturally bleeds into the white areas; bleeding in from both sides of the lettering's stroke made some of the text hard to read.
I almost gave this five stars. Mack has continued the Kabuki series, though, and it gets better as it goes along. He keeps raising the bar for comic excellence - this doesn't quite measure up to the later books in the series, either for art or for story. His later work beats just about every other comic out there, including this earlier work.
It's good, though, and a good intro to the later books.
Rating: 4
Summary: beautiful
Comment: its a beautiful book. The art work is a combination of the american comic book style with japanese traditional art. none of the manga crap. It in some places is hard to follow, but similar it makes beautiful references to childrens classics, and gorgeous metaphors.
Rating: 3
Summary: A great story but an elementary understanding of Japan
Comment: Before you disregard my *** rating hear me out. I really love this book, I love the story, the storytelling, and the art. However Mack's understanding of Japan and Japanese culture is laughable. He threw in some buzzwords and concepts that any American would know and doesn't really take them anywhere. After each and everyone I was left with the question "...and?" Some of the stuff he throws in here is laughable. Throwing in kamakaze and then interrupting the story to have one Japanese character explain to another Japanese character the semi-historical origins of the term, Ainu, eating sushi off a naked lady, comfort women, martial arts, sword fetish. It's like he made a list of everything he could associate with the country, looked them up in the encyclopedia and put it in.
It just could have been so much more. He could have explored any one of these topics and actually gave them meaning. I expected a work by a serious Japanophile but Mack is merely a curious onlooker.
Despite rolling my eyes more times than I can count I really enjoyed the book and think you would too.
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Title: Kabuki: Mask of the Noh by David Mack, Terry Moore ISBN: 158240108X Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Kabuki Scarab by David Mack, Rick Mays ISBN: 1582402582 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Metamorphis (Kabuki, Book 5) by David Mack ISBN: 1582402035 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Kabuki: Skin Deep by David Mack ISBN: 1582401500 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Kabuki Dreams (VOL. 2) by David Mack ISBN: 1582401772 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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