Friday funnies

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Shaenon Garrity has posted another piping-hot edition of the Overlooked Manga Festival, this one about Yakitate!! Japan, a favorite in my house.

The Same Hat guys are back, and they’re hosting another scanlation of a Shintaro Kago manga. Click at your own risk!

Here’s some more online manga with a different slant: Popteen.com is posting chapters of Gal Samurai, a shoujo-ish story of an ass-kickin’ kogal. It’s a bit uneven but entertaining in places. My advice: Check the story guide before you start reading, because there’s not much backstory in the chapters up so far. (Via ANN.)

Check this out, because it may not last: Ed has video of SDCC at the MangaCast. Also up at the ‘Cast: This week’s new manga, and a Maki Side Dish on Comic Gumbo.

Comicsnob has this week’s online manga rankings.

It’s time to start thinking about next year: ICv2 has the dope on Tokyopop’s first-quarter 2008 releases and Viz’s new series.

I was a little slow picking this up this week, but everyone else caught it: vol. 20 of Bleach shot up from 111 to 85 on the USA Today Booklist, and vol. 15 of Naruto slid from 88 to 130.

Reviews: John Jakala reviews Times of Botchan at Sporadic Sequential. At The Comic Book Bin, Leroy Douresseaux checks out vol. 5 of O-Parts Hunter. Patricia Beard reviews vol. 1 of Satisfaction Guaranteed for Anime on DVD. At Comics Worth Reading, Rob Vollmar gives two thumbs up to vol. 2 of Phoenix. Leah reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Dokebi Bride at Hobotaku. Christopher Seaman reviews vol. 4 of Hayate the Combat Butler and Holly Ellingwood checks out vol. 1 of Sunflower at Active Anime. Mangamaniac Julie reviews one of my favorite series, vol. 4 of ES: Eternal Sabbath, at MangaCast. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand reviews Shoujoai Ni Bouken: The Adventure of Yuriko. Cornerofmadness reviews vol. 18 of Bleach at Manganews. Connie goes for the girly with a review of vol. 1 of Metamo Kiss at Slightly Biased Manga.

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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One Response to Friday funnies

  1. Tivome says:
    August 14, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    How is Yakitate!! Japan considered overlooked? Anyway, Brig, please go try a melon-pan or an-pan if you can find them in Boston. It’s REALLY good. I was watching Shakugan no Shana last night and I really crave one now… sure beats all the pastries I can find in the states. Lucky Star has me hooked on choco cronet, and Shana has me craving melon-pan… I have to stop watching before I gain more weight…

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