Mangaverse 7.1 Leiji Matsumoto tribute

Here is the link for the latest Mangaverse zine, a tribute to Leiji Matsumoto who passed away this year:
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I'm posting it here for the time being until it can be put up on the N3F website where all the other ishes are here.

The cover

One of favorite things I did for this ish

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