SEAN: There are a pile of titles that I'm interested in this week, including some shoujo stuff that sounds old school (as I joked in manga the Week of), but yeah, just as Michelle goes "OMG, a Margaret title!", I can't help but go "OMG, a Big Comic Superior title!". The creators are just gravy.
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