Give CMX a chance?

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

Over on Newsarama, Troy Brownfield provides a peek at CMX’s fall line.
Now, I know we’re all supposed to be hating on CMX because of the Tenjho Tenge debacle. But I’m willing to forgive them a bit because Gals! is such a big hit in my house. It’s smart and funny, and although the translators’ attempt at rendering Japanese street talk into English street talk is laughable at times, it works for the intended audience (12-year-olds). The lesson we all hope CMX will learn is to gear the books to the audience, and since they have an entire preview package aimed at mature audiences, that may have sunk in.
Looking at the fall line, I like the looks of Chikyu Misaki and will probably pick it up when it comes out next month. Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne looks interesting too.
If they stink? Well, back to hatin’. Until the next good book comes along, anyway.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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