New year, new comics

Same Hat! Same Hat!! has a comprehensive roundup of 2007, including their top ten, as well as a look forward at the year to come.

David Welsh looks at this week’s new manga and decides it’s a pretty good week after all. And the MangaCast folks make their very opinionated picks.

Manga Xanadu looks at the Kindle e-book reader and considers how it might fit into the manga marketplace.

Tiamat’s Tokyopop website woes continue and increase. It sounds like the web folks need to do some fine-tuning.

Tokyopop is hiring.

Reviews: Matthew Brady is bullish on vol. 4 of Monster. Michelle gives vol. 25 of Basara, a series she has consistently enjoyed, an A+ at Soliloquy in Blue. Tangognat gets a kick out of vol. 1 of Hikkatsu. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand sees too much of the same old same old in vol. 1 of Short Sunzen! Anime Punk Joey has high praise for vol. 1 of MPD-Psycho at Manga Punk. Julie checks out vol. 1 of Ai No Kusabi: The Space Between and vol. 4 of Nosatsu Junkie at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Rob Vollmar reviews Apollo’s Song at Comics Worth Reading.

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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