The CLP is awesome: Badass Swordfighter Edition

Perhaps one of the coolest things about the Allegheny County area is its library system. It is vast, extraordinarily well stocked, and very prompt with transfers. But most importantly, it has facilitated my need for awesome blood-soaked action comics!

Not that long after it was released, I was able to grab a copy of what was then the latest trade of my favorite all-time manga, Hirokai Samura's Blade of the Immortal. If you have not checked this out, you are hearby ordered to do so immediately. I will never be able to say enough good things about this series, as it tickles every last one of my fanboy sensors. Hardcore characters on both sides of the isle, cinematic and complex fight scenes that often need to be read over and over to arrest, deep layered (as the fans like to say, "circles within circles") storylines, and more shades of gray than the sky here in Winter! Not for the faint of heart.

And today, the CLP (aka the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh) has delivered yet again, helping me to obtain something I have been seeking ever since I saw it on a shelf in the Kintetsu Mall in San Francisco; Park Joong-Ki's Shaman Warrior

I should point out that Shaman Warrior is not manga, but manhaw (basically because it is Korean, not Japanese). Just digging into it now...expect a full review in a day or so!