If you’re a fan of Manga and G.I. Joe you’re in luck, on November 24 the G.I. Joe: Future Noir series will debut. The two-part miniseries is a manga created version of the Joe team as they deal with issues of international espionage.

Here’s some background info about the series:

G.I. Joe: Future Noir Special #1 (of 2)
Andy Schmidt (w) • Giacomo Bevilacqua (a & c)
And now, for something different: IDW and Hasbro present an all-new take on the famed soldiers that includes high-explosive action in anime-influenced “future noir” style! Join DUKE and SCARLETT on this special two-part extra-length adventure as they take their team into a mysterious investigation that’s about to turn their world upside down! What is this COBRA cult? And how can it have Japan under its control?
B&W w/greytones • 56 pages • $7.99

I’m a huge fan of the original series and it’s nice to see them take on a more adult oriented style. Plus check out one of the pages below and you’ll instantly see why it’s worth picking up for eight bucks.

So what do you think, are you ready to mix some manga in with G.I. Joe.

I discovered the Twilight saga in December 2008, I had vacation from work, bought the first book and ended up reading all four books in a week and a half. The movie was also released in the same period which I ended up seeing a few days later. I liked the books but even I had trouble with the adoration Bella has going on for Edward. I would skim the sentences when it got too much otherwise I would have stopped reading it altogether.

The pending release of the graphic novel will be a success for sure, because all fans will be buying it. The publishers, Yen Press, will certainly make good profit. But what stands to see is if it will draw new followers.

Twilight is drawn in manga like style by Young Kim with original text from the author Stephenie Meyer. The novel will be in a mix of black and white and colors from what I could gather. It will be released in hardcover at 10.99 dollars on Amazon. Now I’m not a manga/comic expert but it seems like a softcover is more fitting then a 244 pages hardcover. Leave the hardcover for the collectors edition.

As for the manga like format it will limit the text to the bare essentials for the story. This gives me hope that the story will be less “cheesy” and more on the vampire, human, wolf issues. Because it’s not a bad saga story wise, in book four it gets such to extreme I wonder if the movie will be PG rated or R rated. So overall it has great potential to be a good graphic novel for comics and manga fans out there who don’t like the books and movies. But one must be willing to put aside all opinions on the books and movies to give this novel a chance.

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“Let the deliberations begin.”

In The Legend of Koizumi (Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku), key economic, political and military decisions are settled in the mahjong table. This is no typical anime, because it actually portrays real world political figures fighting for world peace. The satirical anime stars Junichiro Koizumi, the 89th prime minister of Japan who is portrayed as the defender of world peace with the talent of mahjong handed down to him from his father.

Typical of Japanese satire in manga as well as in the series, there is a definite exaggeration of the social and cultural backgrounds of the cast. In the first part of the series, George W Bush collapses on his Segway, former Prime Minister Taro Aso disrupts an assassination attempt on Koizumi’s life with his own sniper rifle in reference to him being part of Japan’s shooting team in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Koizumi himself is seen piloting a Hornet to disrupt a nuclear bomb, in reference to his real world title as “Maverick.”

The Legend of Koizumi hails from the manga of the same title that came out in 2008 and will come in full bloom this February 2010 on video.