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My Top Five List of Alternative Comics To Read Post#5 ? February 19, 2008

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Well, this is the last of my five posts of Alternative Comics To Read, and to be fair I started this list due to my dissatisfaction with some of the comics that I had read this past year…so this last choice is definitely a few steps outside of the norm for me…and I’ll just say one word here…Manga

Yes, I said it…Manga

The appeal of a self contained series that comes out on time ( possibly every month or so? ) is pretty appealing to me, along with the novelty of the Black & White format, starting to read said Manga starting from the back of the book vs the traditional front of a comic, and reading every page of that manga book starting from right to left, vs the traditional left to right format that we are all generally used to.

The series that I have started to read is called Doll, by Mitsukazu Mihara.

Doll, focuses on the ideas of how humans and machines interact with each other, sometimes on very personal levels…and this series so far seems to try to blur the line between what it is to be human and what is not to be human…but want to be.

I have to say that I can kinda see a parallel between this book and the anime series Ergo Proxy that I just finished seeing yesterday. A definite parallel between machines that become infected with human awareness, and dolls that maybe want to be human ( or at least possibly their human keepers ) want them to be human.

Doll has six books ( at least at this point ) in it’s series and so far I have three of the six with the other three on the way to me, so I will be talking more about this series in the near future