Otherworld Barbara HC (2016-2017 Fantagraphics) comic books
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Issue #1-1ST
Published Sep 2016 by Fantagraphics.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
1st printing. Story and art by Moto Hagio. In the first volume (of two) of Moto Hagio's Otherworld Barbara, Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara, there's a missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado and more. Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships. This book won the "Nebula Award of Japan" (Nihon SF Taish Award) in 2006. Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 9-in., 400 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.99.
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Issue #2-1ST
Published Aug 2017 by Fantagraphics.$21.00
Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Moto Hagio. In the second (and concluding) volume in Moto Hagio's award-winning science fiction saga, the poltergeist phenomena has become more intense as Nanami and Kiriya both travel to Engaru, where Aoba has dreamt of the island of Barbara for seven years. In the end, it comes down to a father's frantic efforts to save the life of his son. But... which son? And who is the dreamer and who is the dreamed? Can the dreamer become the dreamed, and the dreamed the dreamer? Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 9-in., 400 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.99.
