Author: Antony Johnston
Artist: Wilson Tortosa
Publisher: Del Rey
Rating: Teen (13+)
Release Date: April 2009

Synopsis: “Logan is a teenage rebel with a real good reason for having a real bad attitude. Ever since being left in a nearby forest–with no memory of who he was or how he got there–Logan (or Wolverine, as his classmates sometimes call him) has been stuck in a martial arts school in the icy wilds of Canada. No wonder he’s bored, restless, yearning. There’s a whole world out there, and Logan can almost taste it. But he’s chained to a past he can’t remember and can’t escape. Now it just may destroy his future.”

DelRey’s Wolverine takes the iconic Marvel character and aims to fit him into a manga-shaped mold. The story doesn’t trend new ground in either world of subject or style, but the familiar set-up just might pull off a winning combination along with Wilson Totora’s work, which finds a fairly solid style-compromise that both manga and comic fans can appreciate. It’s not the same Wolverine fans are used to, but many of the well-known features are intact, they’re just compressed into the body of a pretty- boy adolescent instead of the hairy 50+ man we’re used to. Big stretch, I know, and yet Wolverine still manages to work on some of its intended levels.

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Author: Surt Lim
Manga-ka: Hirofumi Sugimoto
Publisher: DelRey
Rating: Teen (13+)
Release Date: July 2008

Synopsis: “Kasumi is a special girl – and not just because she’s a super-cute high schooler with a heart of gold. She has a major secret: She can turn invisible when she holds her breath! But when she transfers to an elite private school, it gets harder to keep her superpowers secret, especially when she catches the eye of the handsome student-council president, Ryuuki, and becomes the target of his number one fan, mean girl extraordinaire Reina. Can Kasumi keep hiding who she really is?”

The brainchild of American-born Surt Lim and aspiring manga artist in Japan, Hirofumi Sugimoto, Kasumi is the story of, as the title would suggest, Kasumi. Kasumi is a young girl who finds herself attending a surprisingly prestigious private school and quickly things take an interesting turn. From the usual female bullies, and snubbing cool guys every girl there wants a piece of, Kasumi already has her hands full… oh, and the power to go invisible.

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Author: Christopher Hart
Artist: ANZU
Publisher: Del Rey
Rating: Older Teen (16+)
Released: May 2008

Synopsis: “Handsome, wealthy, respected, Giancarlo has lived for hundreds of years, surrounded in splendour, shrouded in darkness, and enslaved by the insatiable hunger lurking inside him. In the glittering ballrooms where the privileged gather, he moves with cool elegance. But in the desolate alleys where the undead feed, he preys with murderous intent. Immortality is his, but love never will be – only an eternity of loneliness, filled with the blood of innocent victims. But Jenny won’t be one of them. Something about this beautiful young woman stirs feelings in Giancarlo that he hasn’t known in centuries.”

The Reformed is a one-shot story of Giancarlo, a vampire of high social class who finds his prey on the night streets. One evening he saves a woman named Jenny from an attacker, only to find himself, an immortal bloodthirsty monster, in love with her.

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