By Makoto Kobayashi. Released in Japan by Kodansha, serialized in the magazine Weekly Morning. Released in North America by Dark Horse, originally in six separate volumes. Translated by Dana Lewis, Toren Smith, Jeanne Sather, Alan Gleason, Hisashi Kotobuki, Lea Seidman, and Elin Winkler. This is the first of two huge re-releases of Dark Horse’s What’s Michael? collections, this one containing the first six volumes. Despite that, it’s only 530 pages – they weren’t big volumes. They’re compiled as they were in the late 1990s, so don’t expect the book to read right-to-left or the missing chapters with violence and nudity to be put back in. That said, I’m not particularly concerned, as it allows this marvelous creation to come back into print after all this time. What’s Michael? is not...
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