Monthly Archives: April 2007

Review: The Cute Book and The Bad Book

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

The Cute Book Aranzi Aronzo Vertical, $12.95 The Bad Book Aranzi Aronzo Vertical, $12.95 Regular readers have seen many mentions of my daughters in this blog. That’s because at ages 12 and 14, they have a very different perspective on … Continue reading →

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Charts!

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

The USA Today Booklist features three manga this week: vol. 13 of Naruto at number 84 (down a few notches from last week’s 79); vol. 18 of Bleach at 103 (up from 129 last week) and vol. 16 of Fruits … Continue reading →

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Review: Black Sun Silver Moon

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Black Sun Silver Moon, vol. 1 by Tomo Maeda Rated OT, 16+ Go!Comi, $10.99 I know that there is a whole genre of clergy manga in Japan, but it’s still weird for a nice Catholic girl with me to read … Continue reading →

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MangaBlogCast is up!

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

This week, Jack and I look at Aurora, Viz, and online manga. Links after the cut. Viz vigor PWCW interview with Alvin Lu Christopher Butcher posts all you need to know about Taiyo Matsumoto One for the ladies ICv2 summaries … Continue reading →

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So many manga, so little time…

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

This seems to be an unusually good week for new manga. At Same Hat, Ryan and Evan are psyched about new volumes of Dragon Head and Death Note. David Welsh is envisioning an iron cage match between Tohru Honda, the … Continue reading →

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Late night wrapup

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Shaenon Garrity has another Overlooked Manga Festival up, and this week she goes all classy with a peek at Fanfare/Ponent Mon’s Doing Time. And here are some really cool 4-koma cartoons. I like the maid/shark one the best, because it … Continue reading →

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