The comic starts slowly, with subtle depictions of rural life of 1920s Japan. Similar to Panorama-tou Kidan, Imomushi features a lush color two-page opening with a quote from Edogawa Rampo. Imomushi's stark and beautiful title page The cover and spine are a thick matte with gorgeous color art. I hadn't realized how thick each issue of COMIC BEAM is. Here is a first look at the June 2009 issue, and chapter one of Caterpillar by Suehiro Maruo x Edogawa Rampo: (This is one of my absolute favorite books! If you have not read this book, YOU NEED TO GO BUY IT RIGHT NOW!) There's more, but I'll leave it there for now.Įlements from Edogawa Rampo's original short story have already been seen in Suehiro Maruo illustrations and muzan-e works Rampo's The Caterpillar was previously translated into English as part of the Edogawa Rampo short story collection, "Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination". Unable to speak or care for himself, he is completely at the mercy of his wife as she grows to loathe and toy with him. Sunaga initially is given a hero's welcome, but is quickly forgotten and shunned because of his injuries. Sunaga, a disfigured and limbless veteran of WWI who returns home to his young and beautiful wife. The Caterpillar is a haunting psychosexual tale of Lt. The new comic is 芋虫, which will be an adaptation of the 1929 Edogawa Rampo short story of the same name. (The issue also features the newest chapter of SOIL by Atsushi Kaneko, a short by Yoshida Sensha, and outsider SF stuff by Sugiura Shigeru. Let me tell you, it's beautiful and awesome. The first chapter premiered in the June 2009 issue, and I've just picked up my copy at our local Kinokuniya in San Francisco.
Get excited ya'll, Suehiro Maruo's newest comic has begun serialization in the monthly magazine COMIC BEAM.
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