Monthly Archives: January 2008

PopCultureShock has come up with an interesting tool: ComicRankings, which collates comics reviews from around the blogosphere and ranks comics, creators, and publishers accordingly. The top-ranked publisher is Del Rey, followed closely by Viz; Dark Horse is fourth and Tokyopop … Continue reading →

Undertown is the latest Tokyopop global manga to be morphed into a newspaper strip. ICv2, which mistakenly calls it “Uglytown” (Freudian slip?) notes that it was also picked up by Scholastic. It’s an Overlooked Manga Festival Special Event: Shaenon Garrity … Continue reading →

Viz gets on the omnibus bus in a big way. Vizbig editions have a slightly larger trim size than standard manga and put three of the original volumes together in a single book, together with bonus content like color pages. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

The year-end roundups continue, and manga is getting some love on the general-comics lists. At PLAYBACK:stl, Jason Green includes Sugar Sugar Rune and Adam Warren’s Empowered in his top ten. Dick Hyacinth has a cascading series of lists that includes … Continue reading →

Check out this week’s USA Today best-seller list, for the week ending December 30 (number in parentheses is last week’s rank): 78. Naruto, vol. 27 (135) 89. Naruto, vol. 26 (228) 96. Warriors: Warrior’s Refuge (0) 113. Naruto, vol. 25 … Continue reading →