Wednesday news update

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Happy blogiversary to to Matthew Brady, who has been blogging for a year at Warren Peace Sings the Blues. Matt covers a lot of manga, and I really enjoy his reviews of individual issues of Shojo Beat. I’m looking forward to the day when people refer to Matt Brady of Newsarama as “not the Warren Peace Matt Brady”—it’s coming, I’m sure!

This week’s issue of Publishers Weekly Comics Week brings the news that IDW will be publishing Kazuo Umezu’s horror manga Reptilia. Also of interest: Ed Chavez sheds some light on the new online enterprise Manganovel. I was eagerly looking forward to taking this for a test ride until I realized that it’s Windows only. Boo!

David Welsh heads for the kitchen in this week’s Flipped column, which is all about cooking manga.

Matt Blind takes stock of the top 100 graphic novels for mid-November at Comicsnob.

ComiPress has the 411 on the Naruto Box Set, the last volume of Stray Little Devil and a new online comics community.

At Shuchaku East, Chloe points to an article on German manga (so far available only in German).

Language Bookworld finds a source for manga in French.

Reviews: Speaking of Matthew Brady, he has a nice review up, with scans, of Monster. EvilOmar has some pithy reviews up at About Heroes. At Manga Recon, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei reviews three titles from the Shojo Beat imprint, vol. 7 of Godchild, vol. 7 of Nana, and vol. 1 of S.A., and Erin F. checks out the novel Full Metal Panic: Fighting Boy Meets Girl. Julie reviews vol. 1 of Zig Zag at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At Okazu, Erica Friedman flips through vol. 2 of Yuri Hime S. At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna reviews vol. 9 of Genshiken and vol. 13 of The Wallflower and updates her review pages on The Kindaichi Case Files and ES: Eternal Sabbath to include the latest volumes. Ryan Lewis takes a long look at vol. 7 of Kaze Hikaru at Manga Life. Sakura Eries reviews the zany action manga vol. 1 of Hikkatsu at Anime on DVD. At Active Anime, Scott Campbell checks out vol. 8 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Holly Ellingwood reads vol. 7 of Loveless, and Christopher Seaman takes a look at vol. 1 of Psychic Power Nanaki. At Way of the Geek, Caldi checks out xxxHolic and Tsubasa.

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 Wednesday news update

  1. Lori Henderson says:
    November 14, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    While I like the concept of Manganovel, I wonder how well it will survive. When people buy something, they want to have something to show for it. Manganovel’s DRM pretty much amounts to just renting. If something happenes to Manganovel and/or it’s servers, that manga you’ve paid for is gone. The music companies have learned that as they are (slowly) moving to none DRM’ed music files.

    Other countries may see manga as disposable, but I just don’t see that attitiude happening in the US any time soon.

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