Thursday links

Posted on November 16, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

If you’re curious what Marc Weidenbaum, the new VP of magazines at Viz looks like, ICv2 has a picture. They also report on Del Rey’s acquisition of Princess Resurrection:

The cute, but take-no-prisoners, chainsaw-wielding heroine of this series battles the forces of darkness with the help of a zombie servant and a robot sidekick—and the result is a bloodsoaked but stylish horror series with the body count of an Evil Dead movie.

Sounds like one for Ed and Jack.

More on the reviewer drama: the Newsarama blog summarizes the recent back-and-forth between reviewers and creators, and Josh Elder, creator of Mail Order Ninja, drops in to offer free copies of his book to anyone who wants to review it. And if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: At The Engine, Elder announces that he will be the graphic novel reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times.

At MangaCast, Ed is looking forward to winter Comiket.

Yaoi 911 reviews Rin! Alex describes it as a “coming-of-age archery romance,” which sounds, well, different. At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna enjoys Japan as Viewed by 17 Creators.

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 Thursday links

  1. Jack says:
    November 16, 2006 at 8:58 am

    I can’t wait because I’ve been reading Strawberry Marshmallow and Yakitate! Japan too much these last few months. That’s not very MM4MM of me — Jarred would not be proud.

  2. Tina Anderson says:
    November 16, 2006 at 6:49 pm

    No offense, but isn’t the reviewer drama a day late and a dollar short? And the title of the article is just bound to cause drama. The cig is lit, close the flip top on the lighter and move on.

  3. Ed Chavez says:
    November 18, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    Jarred is already disappointed… we might have to assign you to review Shaman Warrior or some Ero-Manga soon to toughen you up.

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