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Statues: Junji Ito Story Collection features ten pretty solid horror stories

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Headless statues confound the mind with a terrifying question: Are they fine art or carved from the abyss?

Art teacher Okabe creates strange, headless statues. One day, he is found murdered, his corpse headless. From that day on, art club member Shimada seems off somehow… Elsewhere, in a curious town custom, the dead are placed on a tatami mat and set out on the river. Kanako’s grandmother lives alone in a house near this river. What did she witness at one of these funerals long ago? And a mysterious disease makes girls suddenly become more beautiful. But soon they all die. The only way to survive might be worse than death itself…

Ten tales from horror master Junji Ito that will plant the seeds of terror in your heart.

Story: Junji Ito
Art: Junji Ito
Translation and Adaptation: Jocelyne Allen
Touch-Up Art and Lettering: Eric Erbes

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Moan: Junji Ito Story Collection is a bit mixed in quality when it comes to its six stories

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A dark evil lurks in the unreachable depths of a pipe, groaning out moans that echo through the house of a germophobe mother and her daughters. In another tale, flowers blooming in the shape of eyeballs are only the beginning of the strange phenomena surrounding a mysterious transfer student. Could he have supernatural abilities? Also, a man in a village deep in the mountains shares memories of his wife. What happened to her after she said she would give freely of her blood?

Story: Junji Ito
Art: Junji Ito
Translation and Adaptation: Jocelyne Allen
Touch-Up Art and Lettering: Eric Erbes

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SDCC 2025: Junji Ito Inducted Into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame

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VIZ Media is celebrating legendary manga creator Junji Ito, who was officially inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. This honor cements Ito’s status among the world’s greatest horror storytellers, whose unnerving, masterful works have captivated millions and redefined the boundaries of the genre.

With over 10 million books sold worldwide, Ito is one of the most successful and influential manga artists in the U.S. and beyond. Hailed as “the Stephen King of Japan,” his works frequently appear on The New York Times Best Sellers list and dominate BookScan’s top graphic novel rankings.

For more than four decades, Ito has conjured unnerving tales that transform the familiar into the grotesque, the cosmic, and the deeply unsettling. From his manga debut Tomie, the beautiful and regenerative girl whose presence drives those around her to madness and violence, Gyo, a nightmarish vision of a world overrun by reeking, walking fish corpses, to the inescapable spiral curse of Uzumaki—now adapted into an anime series available digitally via Amazon Prime Video, Google, Apple TV app (U.S. and Canada), and Fandango at Home (U.S.)—his stories have thrilled and haunted generations of readers.

Ito is a four-time Eisner Award winner and in 2022 became the first international creator to win Best Writer/Artist, for his chilling masterpiece Remina. Ito’s works are recognized for their signature slow-burn dread and deeply disturbing imagery. With this new Hall of Fame honor,  Junji Ito continues to expand the possibilities of horror, securing his place in the pantheon of comic book legends.

The Liminal Zone 2 features Junji Ito’s familiar style but doesn’t shine like his other work

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Welcome to the liminal zone, where things beyond your wildest imagination await.

What fate awaits when death is not the end?
A group of four university students stumbles upon a deserted, decaying village deep in the mountains only to find an enormous perpetual motion machine still at work there. Before they can answer the questions of who made it and to what end, the friends begin to disappear, one after the other. Another story sees the return of the strange Hikizuri siblings! A girl weighed down since birth by an invisible burden meets the odd siblings and moves in with them in order to understand the truth about herself. But after a string of bizarre occurrences, the siblings’ uncle appears on the scene…

Story: Junji Ito
Art: Junji Ito
Translation and Adaptation: Jocelyne Allen
Touch-Up Art and Lettering: Eric Erbes

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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The Liminal Zone 2 features Junji Ito’s familiar style but doesn’t shine like his other work

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Welcome to the liminal zone, where things beyond your wildest imagination await.

What fate awaits when death is not the end?
A group of four university students stumbles upon a deserted, decaying village deep in the mountains only to find an enormous perpetual motion machine still at work there. Before they can answer the questions of who made it and to what end, the friends begin to disappear, one after the other. Another story sees the return of the strange Hikizuri siblings! A girl weighed down since birth by an invisible burden meets the odd siblings and moves in with them in order to understand the truth about herself. But after a string of bizarre occurrences, the siblings’ uncle appears on the scene…

Story: Junji Ito
Art: Junji Ito
Translation and Adaptation: Jocelyne Allen
Touch-Up Art and Lettering: Eric Erbes

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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It’s a new week and we’re kicking it off with some comic news and a review from around the web!

First Coast News – Marvel and DC Comics legend, Jacksonville native Thomas Tenney at risk of homelessness – It’s rally time, let’s help! Here’s a link to the GoFundMe.

How to Love Comics – The 12 Best Junji Ito Manga Stories You Should Read – Which would you include on this list?

The Beat – French critics organisation ACBD announces Prix Comics 2024 selection – Congrats to all.

Deadline – Atlas Comics Sets ‘Devilina’ Project At Paramount – Interesting.

Review

The Beat – Ash’s Cabin

Alley is a short story collection of Junji Ito scares. Featuring 10 stories, how does it stack up?

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Every night, a young man hears children playing outside his boarding house–but the alley below his window is fenced off from the world. Then, when a young woman’s family starts acting strangely at the same time she begins having bizarre dreams, she decides to stay with her aunt, but the town she heads for has neither addresses nor roads… Also, an all-you-can-eat ice cream bus that’s more sinister than sweet!

Story: Junji Ito
Art: Junji Ito
Translation and adaptation: Jocelyne Allen
Touch-up and Letterer: Eric Erbes

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The weekend is almost here! What geeky things are you all doing? Sound off in the comments below! While you wait for the weekend to begin, here’s some comic news and a review from around the web to start the day.

Variety – 14 People Arrested in Comic-Con Sex Trafficking Sting – Sad but not at all surprising. Big events bring out scum like this. Glad the operation was able to help some victims.

The Beat – Jim Zub signs multi-year CONAN deal with Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics – Awesome news!

FFXnow – ‘Spiderman’ rappels tower at Fairfax hospital to greet young patients – Always cool to see things like this.

Kotaku – Marvel Rivals Feels Like Overwatch Without All The Baggage – This is a good thing, right?

Comicbook – Junji Ito Inks Impressive Movie Deal With Fangoria, Others – Interesting.

The Mary Sue – Marvel Crew Members Slam Robert Downey Jr.’s $80 Million ‘Avengers’ Salary – As they should.

Review

The Beat – Excellent Property, Rejects For Residents Vol. 1

Mimi’s Tales of Terror is 10 tales of dread adapted by Junji Ito

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University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There’s the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe—but if she’s so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi’s movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing day?

Nine scary stories that really happened, drawn from the famed collecton of urban legends Shin Mimibukuro (New Earmuffs), and adapted into manga by horror genius Junji Ito!

Original story: Hirokatsu Kihara, Ichiro Nakayama
Story: Junji Ito
Art: Junji Ito
Translation: Jocelyne Allen
Touch-up and Letterer: Eric Erbes

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Vault announces Sanji, a manga homage variant cover line with Angela Wu

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Vault has announced Sanji, a new line of manga homage variant covers drawn by star artist Angela Wu and designed by Vault’s Executive Vice President of Branding & Design, Tim Daniel. 

The first Sanji variant cover will be for Barbaric: Wrong Kind of Righteous #1. It will be an homage to Berserk, honoring the work of the immensely influential and beloved late master artist, Kentaro Miura. Then in 2024, Angie Hewitt’s Lone #1 will feature an Uzumaki homage cover honoring the  master horror artist, Junji Ito. After that, a previously teased series from Peter Milligan and Amalas Rosa will launch with a Pluto homage cover, honoring the groundbreaking work of Naoki Urasawa.    

Each new Vault first issue in 2024 will release with a Sanji Manga homage variant which can be pre-ordered and purchased at local comic book stores everywhere. More Sanji manga homage variants will be announced in the coming months.

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