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Peow’s comics are exactly for me and my stomach ⊟
Sometimes people go on wild runs making the exact art you want at that point in your life, a wonderful period when each release feels iconic and speaks to something thus-far unattended in your heart. Remember how Aaliyah followed up “If Your Girl Only Knew” with “One in a Million” and “4-Page Letter”? Or when early-2000s Adult Swim had the TV game locked up with programs like Home Movies, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Cowboy Bebop in the same evening lineup? Or indieszero’s decade-long reign when they were grinding out gem after gem with GameCenter CXs, Theathrythms, and NES Remixes?
That’s how I’m looking at comic book publisher Peow Studio lately. They caught my eye with Jane Mai’s Animal Crossing doujinshi Pond Smelt years ago, and I kept seeing them pick up intriguing books from talented artists like Valentin Seiche (Pocket Fantasy). More recently, they put out Patrick Crotty’s Black Border Flowers, a webcomic combining sports manga with Magic the Gathering tournaments; and Jean Wei’s Heat, a “beautiful slice-of-life centered on a naked 8-foot fire demon and farm life with an old Aunt and grand-niece”. They are not playing around when it comes to keeping my attention.
And now they’ve brought out Mami, a lovely, lighthearted book from Manila-based illustrator Diigii Daguna that follows a detective’s career as he chases after a slippery and often hungry art thief. The criminal’s empty stomach keeps getting him into trouble, but it also gives Diigii a chance to introduce readers to delicious Filipino street foods with flavorful intermissions.
No lie, I had to go out and buy tocino (pork belly cured in a sweet mix) at our local asian grocery store to eat with garlic-fried rice and eggs after developing a sudden craving from Mami’s “Pinoy Breakfast” page. And the food intermission for taho, a syrupy amber-colored drink teeming with sago pearls and silken tofu, left me longing to book a trip to the Philippines to enjoy the treat again.
You can buy the 65-page book now for $13.50. Peow Studio has more comics you’ll want on the way – Jane Mai’s Painfully Embarrassing Otaku Weekend apparently includes “Pond Smelt 2”, and Valentin Seiche’s Trigger Soul graphic novel for Samurai Gunn 2 (coming to Switch next year) will have a release with the publisher. Expect posts on those, too :o)
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I’m in love with Black Border Flowers ⊟
A sports anime but with competitive card games is exactly what I’ve dreamt about my entire life – though I wanted something less like Yu-Gi-Oh, and more like What If Netrunner Was A Card Anime. Top table competitions just seem to translate so well as comics with exaggerated anime drama.
Patrick Crotty, who you might know for heading Peow (publisher of many fine comics), is fulfilling my dreams with Black Border Flowers, a “a sports-manga styled comic about competitive Magic,” available to read online for free!
“The story follows a cast of three main characters playing at a Modern Grand Prix in Honolulu. A brother and sister, both amateur magic players, and a Magic prodigy who has been inexplicably absent from the MTG scene are all dragged in to (due to some"’stuff’) a very dangerous high-stakes underground Magic tournament. Weird huh.”
There are only two chapters so far, but the artist will continue to the story if enough people show interest and support his efforts on Patreon. Backers will be able to help influence the story (e.g. “which cards and decks to play, sideboard options, which lines of play the characters should take”), access alternative pages, read behind-the-scenes posts, and more.
Even if you have little to no experience playing Magic the Gathering, you can get by fine with the comic and still enjoy the game’s matches. And if you do want to learn more, Patrick also put together one of the best introductions and illustrated guides on how to play the card game.
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