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  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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Beer and Sand Squid - Crazy Food Truck (Manga) volume 1

Front cover of Crazy Food Truck volume 1
 Front cover of Crazy Food Truck volume 1.

Back cover of Crazy Food Truck volume 1

Back cover of Crazy Food Truck volume 1.

Review:

Rokurou Ogaki has given us a delightful Manga series in Crazy Food Truck. It's a fantastic blend of post-apocalyptic desert wasteland, imaginative creatures, a grizzled and greying retired military leader, a sexy yet naive product of a secret military project, and deliciously creative recipes all blended and baked to perfection in a mobile food truck. Crazy indeed!

Gordon is our chef protagonist. He has a chef's flair and passion for food. And some secrets buried in his past. His calm and pleasant life is interrupted when he runs into the beautiful, lost, innocent and VERY hungry Arisa.

Together they fish for giant sand squid, which Gordon turns into sweet and salty sand squid liver stir fry, sand squid stew and sand squid sashimi. They free a village whose whole population has been enslaved and forced to operate a brewery. They hunt and slaughter a dangerous Puffer Cow. They survive an encounter with a militia squad searching for Arisa, who defends herself with great and violent flair.

The whimsical recipes - often included for us to make at home! - and lovingly drawn food panels are the garnish on top of this terrific first volume. It leaves this reviewer craving seconds!

4 and a half Capes for this engrossing, violent, sexy and delicious book!

Description:

Zero customers, a naked young lady, and an armed militia—it’s just another postapocalyptic day for this food truck owner!

The owner of a food truck in a postapocalyptic world nearly runs over a naked girl sleeping in the middle of the desert. When he gives her a lift, he inadvertently takes on her baggage too—an armed militia hot on her trail…and her even more problematic appetite. If one doesn’t take him out, the other surely will!

Gordon is a gruff, middle-aged cook running a food truck in a sand-covered wasteland. When he encounters Arisa, a naked girl sleeping in the middle of nowhere, he takes on the unintended traveling companion and her unexpected appetite. Too bad she also has unexpected baggage—an armed militia hot on her tail! Fasten your seatbelts for postapocalyptic cooking and violent mayhem on this crazy food truck road trip!

Collects: Chapters #1-4

Authors: Rokurou Ogaki
Artists: Rokurou Ogaki
Published By: VIZ Media
Published When: May 17 2022
Parental Rating: Mature
ISBN: 978-1974727292
Pages: 200 pages


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