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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (other topics)Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice (other topics)
Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Vol. 1 (other topics)
Here is our selected reads for this month. On July 24th, we'll start voting for our next set of reading materials for August. I'll post a thread for your August suggestions. As I mentioned in the "Welcome, New Friends!" thread, we'll have at least one comic, one manga, and one novel for each month. I'll be reading and discussing all three works individually, but of course, you can choose to read just one. Also, I have ebook versions of Necromancer and Chew so let me know if you need me to email you a copy. Happy Reading!
1.) The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (Novel)
"A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.
Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn."
2.) Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice written by John Layman, illustrated by Rob Guillory (Comic)
"Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases."
3.) Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Volume 1 by Shimoku Kio (Manga)
"It's the spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara is in a quandary. Should he fulfill his long-cherished dream of joining an otaku club? Saki Kasukabe also faces a dilemma. Can she ever turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Kousaka, into a normal guy? Kanji triumphs where Saki fails, when both Kanji and Kousaka sign up for Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture.
Undeterred, Saki chases Makoto through various activities of the club, from cos-play and comic conventions to video gaming and collecting anime figures - all thew while discovering more than she ever wanted to know about the humorous world of the Japanese otaku!"