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Tomie and Junji Ito

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So, thanks to everyone (yes, all four of you!) that voted for movies for me to watch. The winner was Tomie: Replay, followed by Dark Water (the original Japanese version). To start off, I wanted to give you my history of the Tomie series: TOMIE MANGA BY JUNJI ITO 600 Pages of Junji Ito manga-goodness (Plus my cat's tail!) To really appreciate this series, you have to understand that these movies were based on the manga by Junji Ito. I first read about these horror comics from Viz's now-defunct anthology series, PULP . The article was about how there were these movies based on Ito's works ( Uzumaki and Tomie ). By this time I had already enjoyed Uzumaki , or "Spiral"? because the art and story was really easy to follow. Ito has this wonderful art style, you can always tell it is by him (even in his early works - which looks BAD, but it's still very Ito-ish). Anyroad, I picked up ComicOne's reprint of Tomie book 1 and 2 and "Flesh Color Horro...
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Root beer float of death... and movie reviews

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VUTORIOUS Tadom Tadom dom domtom tadtom made a whole blog for me. I love being worshipped... (see vufanclub .) Anyroad, she doesn't seem to remember that one time we took that picture ! Wow I -- WE -- were so drunk !!! Okay... so maybe we didn't take a photograph but it could happen. I need a bicycling partner, my spring and summer would be so awesome, just biking around and watching things. VUTORIOUS PART TWO Tony Babinski , who is writing the new "Human Fly" movie, mentioned me in the news section: Our research led me to Kurt Busiek, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Jim Salicrup, whose names will be familiar to comics readers, and all of whom were very generous and helpful. I was also helped by a cat called Vu who runs a very nice George Perez website at vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/perez/index.htm Do you hear that ? I am a catttt!!!!!!!!! ROOT BEER FLOAT... OF DEATH! I have been drinking nothing but root beer floats for the past four days. My belly hurts now from al...