Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack answers the age old question: What would an EC Comic by Carl Barks look like?
I must admit, I didn’t know what to expect when I first picked up Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack Volume 1. While Tezuka’s Astro Boy is often hailed as the cornerstone of modern manga, reading it has always felt to me like more of a ‘study of the grand masters’ than an honest-to-goodness engaging read. (Sort of like reading the first few dozen issues of Superman or The Green Lantern — the art’s amazing and the characters are iconic, but goddamn if the stories aren’t repetitive.)
But Black Jack? Wow.
