World Famous Comics: Astro Boy Volume 19 (Astro Boy)
Astro Boy Volume 19 (Astro Boy)
By: Osamu Tezuka Publisher: Dark Horse Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Dark Horse Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 208 Publication Date: October 14, 2003 Reading Level: Young Adult
Product Description: Astro Boy Volume 19 TPB By: Osamu Tezuka Translated by: Frederick L. Schodt Cover by: Osamu Tezuka
Dark Horse Comics brings the original Astro Boy to America for the first time in an English-language edition! Fifty years old and still rockin', Astro Boy proudly wears the championship belt of all-ages robot action, still leading the manga and anime charge begun by master storyteller/cartoonist/animator Osamu Tezuka, the acknowledged creative and spiritual linchpin of Japan's leading entertainment media exports. Perhaps the most endearing, and enduring, creation to emerge from Tezuka's bottomless creative wellspring, Astro Boy is packed with action, humor, and pathos, interlacing flights of the fantastic with timeless themes and wry commentary on humanity in a rapidly changing technological landscape. Translation by Frederik L. Schodt , author of Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics and translator of Ghost in the Shell.
"Dark Horse is doing manga fans a great service by making this series, the most famous work by Japan's most famous master of comics art, available in the United States." --Library Journal
A Must for Pre-Teen Boys (#19) Q: Do you have a male preteen, who likes Pokemon, Yugioh, cartoons, owns at least two game systems (handhelds count) and knows what anime is?
A: Yes.
Stop here and buy the series. Don't ask why, or is it valuable, beneficial or even engage in the debate about the academic merits of comic books, or graphic novels. I could tell you it is a Japanese classic, on par with Superman, that it may be a collectors item in the future or it is an engaging series with complex subplots for this age group.
That doesn't matter.
You only need to know that if you buy it:
1. He is reading 2. He is reading 3. He is not playing a video game 4. He is reading 5. He is not arguing or fighting with a sibling 6. He is not watching TV like a mindless drone 7. He is reading 8. He will want to read other graphic novels.
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