Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection Evan Palmer A COMEDIC MEMOIR ABOUT FANDOM

A COMEDIC MEMOIR ABOUT FANDOM

Edited by Alex de Campi

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Sarah Winifred Searle

Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection Evan Palmer A COMEDIC MEMOIR ABOUT FANDOMBy Junji Ito. Published by Viz Media LLC. Hardcover, 384 pages, 2021. A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but theyre not twins. And a boys nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Itos earliest works from when he burst onto the horror