Raise your hand if you miss the Japanese manga of the last quarter of the 20th century—those bleak, post-apocalyptic tales of convoluted geopolitics and suggestive male bonding that made the careers of the likes of Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), CLAMP (X)…and, in her own more modest fashion, Toshimi Nigoshi. A little-known creator, Trigun fans may recognize her for her impressive oeuvre of Wolfwood x Vash doujinshi (circle name Shayoukan), but Nigoshi's professional debut actually predates those amateur publications by nearly a decade. Indeed, even by the standards of the industry, The Flat Earth/Exchange has a complicated publication history. First serialized in the early 1990s in Seiji Biblos' short-lived shoujo anthology Patsy, it (along with the magazine) was discontinued after having been compiled into two volumes. The story, at that point still incomplete, fell off the radar until 2002, when new material spanning a final two volumes was commissioned and put out by Enterbrain. Of course, Enterbrain also reprinted the first two volumes originally put out by Seiji Biblos with all-new cover art and designs.