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The Junji Ito Online Reader
Junji Ito is one of the biggest names in Japanese horror manga. His work has inspired countless people and will continue to serve as inspiration for many years to come. His work in “Uzumaki” is unlike anything North America has to offer, and it is positively haunting and fantastic. So it is with great pleasure that I direct you to the Junji Ito online reader, a database collection on the web that offers all of his horror work for free.
That’s right you can get almost everything the horror author has ever written right now thanks to OpenAwesome. But, there’s a beautiful catch, his best work the aforementioned “Uzumaki” didn’t make it onto the site. I would recommend starting here, and finishing on the newly released hardcover collection of Uzumaki. You won’t regret it.
So remember, if you find some stuff on here that really chills you to your core, be sure to support Ito by heading out to your local comic shop to order some of his manga. Until then there is The Juni Ito Online Reader.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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