Rainy Sunday evening

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

I’m trying to finish up my review of Ode to Kirihito, but the internet keeps getting in the way.

Critiquing the critics: At Comics212, Christopher Butcher has some harsh things to say about Fools Gold. At her LJ, Rivkah responds, and the comments wander off into an interesting some-call-it-manga direction. Meanwhile, creator Amy Hadley posts a sample page from volume 2.

If you’re looking for something more cerebral, Samurai Champloo has a post on Armageddon and Utopia in Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys.

The Manga Junkie has found a new title.

After School Nightmare, one of the new Go!Comi titles, is on the menu at Manga Maniac Cafe.

Off topic, but worth a click: These two flow charts, comparing management’s view of a newsroom with reality, are funny because they’re true!

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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3 Responses to Rainy Sunday evening

  1. Higashi says:
    November 12, 2006 at 8:20 pm

    It’s certainly a small effect of OEL, but nonetheless an intriguing one- enter a system in which the creator can actually fire back at the manga reviewer with relative ease

  2. Tina Anderson says:
    November 12, 2006 at 11:23 pm

    That’s the point though…should we? It’s one thing to do in in locked LJ’s and in private chats, but I’m forced to admit, as someone who’s never named names in my pro blog, yet have taken a swat at ‘things said which irk me’, I’ve gotten my own fair share of ’emails ire from reviewers’ asking me what my problem is…It is a two way street, sometimes, not always…but yeah, sniping behind the curtains is always more reasonable; damn the internet! *shakes fist*

    This all reminds of the day Amazon announced that anyone could ‘comment’ on reviews:
    http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004483.html

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