I found this book in the manga section of Bookmans’ used bookstore. The gears on the cover screamed “steampunk” so I had to buy it. This volume is a compendium of the entire series, was published in 2009 by Seven Seas Entertainment. It’s not “authentic” manga in the sense that the creator, Madeleine Rosca, is […]
On this day in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip led a fleet of British ships carrying convicts into Botany Bay to form the penal colony of Australia. Australians still mark this date as a national holiday, which in the Southern Hemisphere is in the middle of summer. In the 18th Century, “transportation” to the colonies was […]
