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The first chapter has already been released, but i want to update all the pages to improve the artstyle. The problem with this criticism, and i see it all the time in comic books made into movies, is this is not a comic, this is a movie. A comic book, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of. Its not simply that sales have tumbled the companys traditional dominance in yearend sales charts is absent this.
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