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PLEASE NOTE: What follows is not a series of capsule reviews but an annotated selection of items listed by Diamond Comic Distributors for release to comic book retailers in North America on the particular Wednesday identified in the column title above. PURE did some other work in the '90s, including contributions to Comic Gaia, the irregular and short-lived SF anthology Seishinsha launched in 1990 to house Shirow's Orion having released Pixy Junket ('junket' in the sense of a custard dessert) as both a comic book miniseries (in '93) and a collected book (in '97), VIZ, I presume, had enjoyed its fill. and, if you've happened to read Shirow's own early Black Magic comics, you know he had a significant inexpert period himself. It occurs to me that this type of inexpert long '80s look was basically what early manga-inspired western comics art was chasing around that time. But who knows? I'm sure a good set of assistants goes a long way, though the older, purer PURE seems irretrievably planted among the licks of his generation. Features THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/24/15 – Never Cool)Ĭan't you just smell the hairspray? It's 1992, and what you're looking at is a sample from Pixy Junket, the sole English-translated output of the artist "PURE," whom VIZ characterizes as "working in the tradition of Masamune Shirow." Jason Thompson, in his invaluable 2007 The Complete Guide to Manga, goes one step further and identifies PURE as "Shirow's former assistant." I got an email recently asking if I knew whatever happened to PURE as is typical of my daily interactions with anyone, I was of no help, although I knew that another artist - Sunao Minakata, of Akuma no Riddle - also sometimes goes by the name of "Pure," although this younger guy is chasing way more of an anime look, and I've never seen anything beyond probably-accidental database connections linking him to the other guy.