Comic books can be a little campy from time to time.  Some of the original pioneers in the medium created gruesome horror comics.  Even Batman used to shoot people with guns.  Comic books have always been a violent medium.  Whether ...

To preface this blog post, I have never read Japanese manga before.  Ever.  I never really liked any cartoon phenomenon that ended in “-mon.”  When I was a kid, Japanese culture was sneakier and thinly veiled in Transformers, Speed Racer, ...