This week I have three books from the fine folks at Yen Press. All of them are the second volume in their respective series, and I’ve only read the first book of one of them…which means it’s time for me to be confused yet again. (Don’t worry – I’m well used to it by now.)…
It looks like Stan Lee’s next collaboration in comics will be one with a Far East flavor – we’ve got the story, plus — Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana is now free and online — Family Guy spins off Cleveland — The folks at Cannes will see Indiana Jones first — And yes, a brand new…
The stack of manga to be reviewed has been getting shorter, down to the point where trying to put together a theme is difficult. So, this week, it’ll have to be random reviews. It’s all from Japan, and… that’s probably all it has in common. Andromeda Stories, Vol. 3 Keiko Takemiya; story by Ryu Mitsuse…
It used to be, if you wanted to reach for the comic art form for your sex education you had to send a couple bucks to those want ads in the back of the cheesy magazines for “Comics – the Kind Men Like!” That stuff was a bit distorted; well, in the case of the…
Del Rey is about the only manga publisher sending me review copies on a regular basis, so they get an extra-large helping of Manga Friday’s love. And this week is no exception; we have no theme, but we do have these three new books from Del Rey… Minima!, Vol. 1 Machiko Sakurai Del Rey Manga,…
This week the theme is “stuff I liked the first time around,” as I review the second volumes of four series that I enjoyed in volume one. For those who came in late, the reviews of the first volumes are here and here. Mu Shi Shi, Vol. 2 Yuki Urushibara Del Rey Manga, 2007, $12.95…
Vulture, the online culture blog of New York Magazine, has posted a full story from The Other Side of the Mirror, a collection of romance stories in manga form by Jo Chen. The story is titled "99 Roses" and features some beautiful art to accompany a story that’s equal parts dreamy romance and slapstick manga-style…
Since last week was big swords, I’d hoped to do big guns this week – but I didn’t have enough books to make it work. So, instead, we have two brand-new manga series (first volumes published at the end of November) and two older, pretty well-known series. (“Old” is a relative term here – one…
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Sure, I chuckled a bit at yesterday’s announcement regarding the upcoming Manga Bible, but I’m still cleaning tuna salad off the desk after reading about Mecha Manga Bible Heroes. It wasn’t so much the development of such a series by JMG Comics that set me off. In fact, it…
Turning water into wine: superpower or blessed miracle? The recently released Manga Bible presents it as a little bit of both, apparently. Illustrated by British-born Nigerian illustrator Ajibayo Akinsiku (a.k.a. Siku) and written by Akin Akinsiku, the 200-page book claims to be the "first ever Manga adaptation of the world’s bestselling book." According to a…
This week: four manga series featuring protagonists who carry very large, sharp objects. Hmm… Overcompensate much? I’ll take them in size order, starting with the smallest and least impressive: Togari, Vol. 1 Yoshinori Natsume Viz Media, 2007, $9.99 In Togari, Tobei has been in hell for the last four hundred years (being tortured unceasingly, yadda…
This week: three manga series featuring sex and death in high school. (I don’t know about you folks, but if my high school was like some of the ones in manga series, I wouldn’t have bothered to graduate.) Case in point: Sundome by Kazuto Okada, a story about a young woman who may just be…
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