<ul><li>Determined to steal back Pampi, Bambi goes head-on with a battalion of gangsters who have taken over an old west-style town and are using it as a hideout while they terrorize the locals for fun. To get Pampi back, our anti-heroine will have to mow them all down, including the seemingly invincible gang leader Mama. Bambi will also have to deal with psychos in bear costumes, trucker gangs trying to capture her, a 100-year old psychotic ex-wrestler, and more! </li></ul>

BAMBi And Her Pink Gun Volume 2 (BAMBI & HER PINK GUN)

KANEKO, Atsushi

Literature & Fiction

Digital Manga Publishing

<ul><li>The word is out on the streets: a reward of five million dollars to the opportunist that wastes the courier calling herself Bambi and returns her living cargo. Chainsaw-swinging psychos, gold-toothed Elvises, Derringer-packing grannies, and all the other scum in these badlands could care less whether Bambi is kidnapping this toddler she christened "Pampi" or if she's snatching him back from his captors. With a pink gun in one hand, and a leashed Pampi in the other, can antihero Bambi's huge ego and formidable gun skills hold off an army?</li></ul>

Bambi And Her Pink Gun Volume 1 (BAMBI & HER PINK GUN)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

This is a tale of rage. Rage against hypocrisy, injustice, exploitation, and the wrongs done to a child who grew into a righteous killer....Complete in three volumes, Search and Destroy transplants the vengeful action of Dororo from feudal Japan into a dystopian future where mercenary robots known as "creatures" serve the human elite and victimize the city's scrabbling, desperate masses. The violent death of one of these creatures connects an orphaned thief named Doro with a mysterious girl in a stinking animal hide that conceals deadly cybernetic implants. Who is this mysterious girl? How is she killing, one by one, the city's most twisted and powerful creatures? And why is she so angry? Originally serialized from 2019-2021 in the Japanese manga monthly TezuComi, Search and Destroy is a brilliantly-crafted thriller about an outsider looking for meaning and vengeance in the unjust world that took everything away from her. Kaneko populates a stunning, high-contrast setting that echoes postwar Cuba as much as Tokyo with an unforgettable cast of scrappy heroes and skin-crawling monsters on a nonstop ride full of action and suspense. This authorized retelling updates the rebellious '60s spirit of the original Dororo for the equally tumultuous 2020s, mixing Tezuka's signature dark yet playful storytelling sense with Kaneko's own wide range of influences, which include Western cartoonists like Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns as well as filmmakers like David Lynch. The result is not only one of the best sci-fi manga of recent years, but also one of the most visually rich and distinctive works of graphic storytelling in any genre or language.

Search and Destroy Vol. 1

Tezuka,Osamu

Manga

Fantagraphics

Wet Moon

Casterman

SOIL T01

ANKAMA

BAMBI 5

IMHO

Welcome to the post-apocalyptic, entirely genderbent, weirdly wonderful "Dororo" adaptation that is "Search and Destroy." I am a dyed-in-the wool horror/sf fan and a nut for all things "Dororo" in particular, so spoilers and references ahoy!\nThe first thing you should probably know is that this manga is in Japanese and is not currently available in English. Japanese is not my first language (or even my second...) so I'm writing this review in English. If you're a horror fan and looking to get into reading Japanese, this is not a terrible place to start. The reading level is generally easier than the other two existing manga adaptations: the original, and currently running faithful-to-source version. It is conceptually much darker than either. Every panel means something, even in the gloriously bloody and violent shootouts that the hero stumbles into now and again. The mangaka, Kaneko Atsushi, shows clear familiarity with the original in every 
choice he makes, but he does not tell the story in the same way. Not even close.\nAnd what is "Dororo's" story, anyway? Well, it's about a corrupt leader (Kagemitsu Daigo) that sacrifices their child's body parts to demonic/evil forces in exchange for power. The dispossessed child comes under the care of a doctor (Jukai) and miraculously survives with the support of synthetic-cum-cybernetic parts. The signature image of the hero is swords embedded in the elbow joints--sword arms. The child gets many names (read the novels if you don't believe me), but the one that sticks is usually Hyakkimaru.\nHyakkimaru goes on a quest to kill the demons and recover his body. He encounters Dororo, an orphan and a thief, that illustrates and teaches the difference between being whole and being human. (In most adaptations, Hyakkimaru is male and Dororo is female. This version swaps their genders, to interesting effect.) Endings are divergent; Osamu Tezuka, the original creator, abandoned the work. Aside from these essential story elements, all the rest is fair game for adaptation. Kaneko Atsushi's first major adaptation shift is to steal a bit from the protagonists' names - Hyakkimaru becomes Hyakki, losing the gendered -maru for boys' names, and Dororo becomes just plain Doro. Bold move, considering the title of "Dororo" is a pun on the word "thief."\nThis world's miracle doctor is a survivalist that lives in the middle of nowhere. When Hyakki is abandoned in snow (flashbacks to Dororo and her mother, who died in a blizzard in the original anime, geek points +1), the doctor finds the genderless creature and builds her a body out of creechi parts, swords, and pointed hooks for feet. In this world, there are humans and creechi (obvious pun on "creature"). Humans are considered superior, but many humans will sell or exchange parts for money or status upgrades, or out of necessity.\nDoro(ro) hangs around a creechi that has Deiki the mud demon's character design; the creechi is obsessed with devouring things and has even wired in a human tongue so that he can get more flavor out of what he eats. While creechi do take and install human body parts in this story repeatedly, this is very illegal. By the same token, selling body parts is also illegal, but the logic (naturally) does not work the other way--that is, humans are free to replace faulty body parts with mechanical equivalents whenever they wish. The effects of this policy cause a lot of moral and ethical gray areas; what makes someone human becomes a lot more open to interpretation. There is also a robust police force that gets itself involved when Hyakki starts leaving a bloody trail in her wake. In most "Dororo" adaptation worlds, Hyakkimaru must take great pains to blend in, but in this one there's almost no need--survivors of war have had their limbs replaced by parts, and the robots created for labor gradually adapt and bring in more human parts for themselves. For once, Hyakki blends right in--Doro, by being fully human, is a lot more unusual in t

Search And Destroy 1

Carlsen Verlag GmbH

SOIL 5 (ビームコミックス)

Search and Destroy Vol. 2

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