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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
1,000 Steps to World Domination
Creator: Rob Osborne
AiT-PlanetLar, 136 pages, black-and-white, $12.95
So? Rob Osborne makes no excuses for his desire to take over the world. The fact that plans to do so through cartooning is, at the very least, an odd choice. But while he won’t be crowned God Emperor of Earth anytime soon, he does make a very funny comicbook about success, creativity and cartooning. Osborne began this project as a minicomic that won the Isotope Award for Excellence in Minicomics in 2003, before expanding it to this edition for Ait-PlanetLar. A series of mostly single-page cartoons, Osborne mixes sometimes odd daydreams about monkey, fables and abusive generals with real life monotony to create the comicbook equivalent of a Spalding Gray monologue. Drawing cartoons may not be the best way to take over the world, but in this case it is a benign ruler that makes for a very entertaining read. Grade: B+
Threads of Time, Vol. 1
Creator: Mi Young Noh
TOKYOPOP, 192 pages, black and white, $9.99
So? Teenager Moon Bin Kim has the usual dreams of a teenage boy: Girls, girls, girls. But he also dreams about a parallel life as the son of a 13th century warrior family. And going back and forth between the two isn’t exactly easy. Mi Young Noh does what so much manga does so well: Connect with young readers. Whereas, 20 years ago, kids who read comics were outcasts who identified more with the angst-filled mutants of Chris Claremont’s “X-Men,” today's manga appeals to kids for whom the fantasy of manga and videogames is as normal as getting a zit. While “Threads of Time” is no great innovator in craft or content, it shows how reliable a form of entertainment manga has become for 21st century kids. Grade: B-
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