Afro Samurai manga

[jboncha]

I was at a bookstore a couple days ago and saw that the Afro Samurai manga finally got published.
Has anyone read it yet?
Is it pretty much the same story as the anime?

[jboncha]

No one?
Nobody's read this book yet?

[Inkthinker]

I flipped through it and was not impressed. I think this might be one of those rare occasions that come around where the anime interpretation of a manga is actually better than the manga itself. I say this, of course, without having actually read the book, but then again it's not as if the anime was burdened by a particulalry rich plot.

:D

I keep seeing it on the shelves, though, so I might give it a better chance... take it down, find a corner in Borders, read through a chapter. I'd be more inclined to do so if someone else recommended it, of course.

[DouglasDanger]

Are you guys really too lazy or busy to spend 20 minutes to read a book for free in Borders while drinking some tasty beverage from Seattle's Best? Seriously?

[jboncha]

It looks like its in at a local library.
I just put it on hold.

[Inkthinker]

Are you guys really too lazy or busy to spend 20 minutes to read a book for free in Borders while drinking some tasty beverage from Seattle's Best? Seriously?

Busy, yeah. I'm ruthless, I flip open a manga and it has about five seconds to impress me in some way, or else it's back to the shelf.

And I hate coffee. Bleagh.

The artwork in the Afro Samurai manga is interesting, but not to my tastes for collection (though I like the style of the anime quite a bit). And from what little I read of the story (I browsed through it for a chapter or so a couple days back when last I was in Borders) it's not much better than the anime's plot... lots of killin' and dyin' and bombastic dialogue, but nothing that reached out and said "buy me!".