Happy Birthday, Orange. Nice buys.
I'm on a bit of a manga craze at the moment:
These are really good manga with great art. The story is based upon a rather popular novel. It's a depressing tale but still one that grabs you, even if it wallows a bit in self pity at times. The main reason I'm reading it is the art though. Volume 3 is so fucking expensive though, like £50 for the final volume, it's ridiculous. I just want to finish the story now and can't, it sucks.
AKA Spiral. This manga had a film based upon it by Takashi Miike. Been interested in Junji Ito's work for a while now and it's so bizarre. Heard this guy was going to be working on Silent Hills with Kojima and Del Toro, looking at his work here, it would have had such weird monster designs. The story for this manga is just creepy too, people in a small Japanese town creating things with spiral shapes and becoming obsessed to the point of pure insanity. Need to grab volume 2 now.
This is one of those manga that nobody has heard of but is really good. If you like horror manga, this has some really imaginative and magnificent horror imagery. The story is a bit cheesy but the art is well worth the purchase, at least so far, not finished it yet. And since it's a one volume manga, it's not a series you have to devote a lot of time to reading or anything.