JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1--Phantom Blood, Vol. 1 (1)

Good hard cover. Great graphics and a good read.

Came in excellent condiotion!Very good product and fine delivery time

I'm probably one of the few people not introduced to Jojo via Stardust Crusaders, and coming into Phantom Blood cold is probably for the best, as I hear by the time JoJo's third iteration rolls around thing are rather a bit different.What's here though, in volume 1 of Jojo is the start of something really interesting, albeit not quite to the meat and potatoes of the matter. In fact it ends at a really awkward place, it really should have gone one chapter (or two) more. But overall it does a great job at setting the tone this series is going to take.Artistically the book is really interesting. Taking a page right out of Fist of the Northstar, where men are giant slabs of meat. And the violence always comes with buckets. The art is a bit rough, as it so often is for such a long running series that started in the late 80s. But that rawness is part of its charm. To see an artist evolve over decades will be this series's greatest treat.As for the rating... I'd have given it 5 stars if the Amazon Kindle version wasn't plagued with such image compression on its color pages. Major appearances of pixilated 'crush' can be seen everywhere. I don't know if this unique to Amazon's version, and if it looks better on ComiXology or directly from Viz. Or if Viz just didn't care when putting out their digital copy files. But it sure is unnecessarily ugly. Which is a terrible shame. The one thing a mostly black and white graphic novel should have is uncompressed art.EDIT 2017 - I have adjusted my rating from 4 Stars to 5 Stars. Since writing this review Viz and Amazon have provided a ComiXology version of the digital version of this book as part of the purchase of the Kindle version. Examining that version of the book I can say that my concerns with color compression have been alleviated, and can say the book looks amazing in digital HD on ComiXology. I have not checked the Kindle version for comparison, so I don't know if that version has been improved. But since I read all of my Kindle graphic novel purchases on ComiXology its irrelevant for my purposes.

I really didn't know what I was getting into when I wasntold to read this series by a few friends. I'm not big big into manga, but i have a deep obsession with Junji Itos work, and the grandfather of modern manga Osamu Tezuka. I prefer it in its original language but English is. Ok. The stories in JoJo are very "western" in a good not copying. Not a foolish try hard way, or in your face way. After reading The Promised Neverland in full (amazing read) this is a nice Ito, short story -esk feel to it. [ALTHOUGH P.N.L. is not Ito] pardon poor English, I am from Japan.Viz can sometimes make not so great book covers on their hardcover books. Inhave 3 Tomie Omnibus's all spine damaged, and I bhave a strong understanding of book care and maintenance, luckily PVA worked for now. The older Museum Of Terror in EN iirc, are easier and more compact anyway, but also more sought after.I digress. The books great. Its dark but not"MW" Yuki dark (the things he does are too real, thenstory is, too good, MW May be my favorite manga/graphic novel if you can handle violence, and things I cant type due to the nature of the things Yuki does are so warped and horrifically genious.In summation, if you want quality English JoJo, its cheap for the hardcover and there is anlot of material over the years the series has been in circulation, its been and still is majorly respected in Japan.So odd to see the other countries of this world getting into it now. 7780s

I was very skeptical about diving into the world of Jojo. I never was a huge anime fan growing up and I had a hard time reading mangas because I would go through book and book to find minor plot development in each one which frustrated me. I got this book because my friend told me there were only 3 volumes in this part. First thing to note is that jojo is unlike any manga or anime that you watched before, characters are fully fleshed out and each part will focus on a new main character with some older characters possibly coming back as side characters. This book is very strange, the writing is very reminesint of grant Morrisons work with many "bizarre" circumstances happening to our characters. The book still takes itself seriously however, even at times can be very emotional. This book was so good, i would even recommend this series to my parents who absolutely hate anime and Japanese culture because it is that good. Araki is a genius at storytelling, there is filler but it is so engaging and unique that it is not a con but a pro in this series! I wont spoil anything but if you want a book that will get you emotionally invested the same way as Harry Potter or LOTR, you need to get into this series.