Upcoming 11/2/2011
Like that house in the neighborhood that always offers the best haul on Halloween, the ComicList has lots of appealing choices this week. I’ll focus on three. I doubt it will be a barrel of laughs, but...
View ArticlePreviews poll for November 2011
It’s been a while since a new edition of the Previews comics catalog has offered enough dubious manga debuts for me to run a poll, but the latest has three! Here they are: GTO: 14 Days in Shonan,...
View ArticleUpcoming 11/9/2011
Even if there was only one thing on this week’s Comic List, it would still be one of the best ever. Here’s why: You know how something you anticipate for a really long time can end up being something...
View ArticleHousekeeping
Thanks to everyone who voted in this month’s Previews poll. A Devil and Her Love Song (Viz) and Durarara!! (Yen Press) pretty much tied, and plenty of people suggested that Devil is something I should...
View ArticleMMF: On Ono
Alexander Hoffman has launched the latest Manga Moveable Feast over at Manga Widget, an examination of the fetching and varied comics of Natsume Ono. I’ve got a few pieces in the pipeline for this...
View ArticleUpcoming 11/16/2011
I feel vaguely like Tom Sawyer, sitting back and watching other people do my work for me, at least in terms of an evaluation of this week’s ComicList. Instead of hacking out my own rundown of the new...
View ArticleUpcoming 11/23/2011
Okay, so clearly this is not going to be a hugely productive week for me, blogging-wise. But I can still muster a look at the current ComicList. It’s pretty easy, since there isn’t a lot of new...
View ArticleUpcoming 11/30/2011
There’s really only one item of interest to me on this week’s ComicList, but it makes the trip to the local comic shop worthwhile. It’s the second volume of Nicolas de Crécy’s Salvatore, An Eventful...
View ArticlePR: JManga launches “ABC of BL / Yaoi”
If you’ve ever wondered what terms like “BL” and “yaoi” actually mean, or what the appeal is of the genre anyway, Japanese web portal JManga is offering up the basics, along with a few special gifts...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Organizing Your Print Manga
With the demise of JManga throwing our digital manga collections for a loop, many fans are feeling the need to cling more firmly to their old reliable print collections. And, let’s face it: if you’re a...
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