Kevin Cole
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Heart Canon - Pluto with Jeff Pennington
🕑 Added 2021-06-30 17:54:26 +0000 UTCHey everybody,
This month I read Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, a dark and mysterious reimaging of Astro Boy's "The Greatest Robot on Earth" arc. Joining me is friend, artist, and podcaster Jeff Pennington!
Jeff and I spoil every twist in the first few minutes and talk our way through the more subtle portions of the work. Our topics include hatred as a meme, remakes, sad robot stories, and why Gesicht is the best.
I looked and couldn't really find much discussion about Pluto online apart from "It's the best!" so I'm happy Jeff and I could contribute something to the discussion of this gem of a manga series.
Enjoy!
KC
PS: This month was a whirlwind for me and I'm gonna be travelling for the next few days so this is going out to everyone at the same time!
Comments
I picked up volume 1 after listening and -Oh Man! The music sequence? Between the washed up composer and North #2? Absolutely incredible that a comic could achieve that. The joy of knowing that there's no way any two readers would interpret that scene- as in- hear the music in their head the same way, makes the book and story immediately so personal. Thanks for the rec. This is one of the first manga books I've read, I tried Trigun years ago, but didn't quite have the comics literacy to hang. Looking forward to finding Volume 2.
