Well, we must have been a pretty intimidating looking jury pool, because 17 defendants pleaded guilty rather than face us! Seriously, this must happen a lot, because we got a lecture beforehand on how even if we don’t serve in an actual trial, the fact that there are several juries’ worth of people ready to serve each day keeps the court system moving along. I wish doing my civic duty could always be as easy as spending a couple of hours in an uncomfortable chair reading Hotel Africa and Mushishi.
John Jakala has an excellent post on the difficulties of finding comics to love—sometimes they don’t exist, sometimes they’re just hard to find.
On the other hand, Lori Henderson has no trouble finding some appealing titles in this month’s Previews, and at Comics Village she finds more in this week’s new comics list.
The MangaCast crew also post their picks from this week’s new manga.
The Manchester Evening News covers a manga exhibit.
At the Icarus blog, Simon (NSFW) Jones answers questions from readers about how the manga biz works.
ICv2 has a little more on the Stan Lee manga project, including the news that the first story will run in Jump SQ II in Japan and that more details will be announced at NYCC.
The ANN folks have found a listing for a Legend of Zelda manga from Viz on Right Stuf.
Sabrina has a con report on Anime St. Louis up at Comics Village.
ComiPress has the Japanese manga rankings from Tohan. At MangaCast, Ed has the Taiyosha charts plus lots of commentary.
Reviews: Julie reviews vol. 1 of Dark Metro and vol. 3 of Dragon Eye at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At it can’t all be about manga, Cathy reads the novel and manga Be With You Rob Vollmar recomments vol. 3 of Phoenix at Comics Worth Reading. Michelle finds lots to like about vol. 1 of Honey and Clover at Soliloquy in Blue. There’s a new set of reviews up at Comics Village: Lori Henderson on vol. 8 of Kaze Hikaru, Dan Polley on vol. 1 of Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time and vols. 1 and 2 of Fairy Tail, Lissa Pattillo on vol. 3 of Innocent Bird, and Charles Tan on vol. 1 of Portus. Back at Kuriousity (note new URL!), Lissa Pattillo finds vol. 11 of XXXHolic to be more of the same, but she has no complaints. Matthew Alexander gives vol. 1 of Manga Sutra a mixed review, and Greg Hackmann is more positive about vol. 3 of Mushishi, at Anime on DVD.
Guess my posting on the Legend of Zelda manga being licensed last week was new news afterall! Thanks for the review linkage :)
Himekawa’s Zelda Manga are super-cute, and definitely aimed at a younger audience. Does this mean pubs have started to realize there’s a huge untapped market there?
(My partner and I both had nearly the same experience with Jury Duty in the past year… she was done by 11am and went shopping!)
Brigid, have you heard anything about the Seven Seas website? It seems to have died a few days ago and nothing since?
Take a look over here.
The site is back up now. Apparently they suffered a major server crash.