Here’s my roundup of Otakon news at MTV Geek.
Yen Press has licensed the Blood Lad spin-off Bloody Brat, a single volume of short stories and four-panel gag manga about the characters in the main series.
The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their Pick of the Week.
How do I read manga—legally? Justin counts the ways and gives a detailed rundown of each digital manga service at Organization Anti-Social Geniuses.
Tony Yao recounts his first trip to Otakon at Manga Therapy.
South Korea’s only comics convention, the Bucheon International Comics Festival, is going on this week.
Reviews: Carlo Santos looks at the latest manga releases in his Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Ash Brown takes us through a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.
Shannon Fay on vol. 5 of The Betrayal Knows My Name (Kuriousity)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Blood-C (Kuriousity)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Don’t Tell My Husband (Kuriousity)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 2 of Doubt (Comics Worth Reading)
Drew McCabe on vol. 1 of Dragon Ball (3-in-1 edition) (Comic Attack)
Carlo Santos on vol. 1 of Dragon Ball (3-in-1 edition) (ANN)
Sean Gaffney on Kitaro (A Case Suitable For Treatment)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 1 of Magi (ANN)
Ash Brown on The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Experiments in Manga)
Chris Randle on The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Hazlitt)
Chris Kirby on vol. 13 of Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (The Fandom Post)