Quick Monday roundup

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Shojo Flash takes a look at the July Previews, featuring books that are due out in September.

News from Japan: Ed Chavez posts the manga rankings from Taiyosha.

Reviews: Be sure to check out my selections for this week in the Robot 6 What Are You Reading? column. Sheldon A. Weibe takes a look at a couple of recent releases from Viz at Eclipse Magazine. The Manga Recon folks line up some Manga Minis for your reading pleasure. Andrew Wheeler looks at four Yen Press titles at ComicMix. Other reviews of note:

Benjamin Birdie on vol. 3 of 20th Century Boys (Comic Book Resources)
Connie on All You Need Is Kill (novel) (Slightly Biased Manga)
Gia on Blood+ Adagio (Anime Vice)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 1 of Children of the Sea (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Sam Kusek on vol. 1 of Children of the Sea (Manga Recon)
Matthew J. Brady on vol. 1 of Detroit Metal City (Warren Peace Sings the Blues)
Sam on vol. 1 of Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories (The Otaku’s Study)
Lorena on vol. 1 of Dororo (i heart manga)
Shojo Flash on vol. 2 of Gakuen Prince (Shojo Flash)
Grant Goodman on vol. 1 of Gestalt (Manga Recon)
Jason Yadao on Ninja Baseball Kyuma and Leave it to PET (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Danielle Leigh on vol. 2 of Love Control (Comics Should Be Good)
Greg Hackmann on vol. 1 of Step (Mania.com)
Bill Sherman on Ultimo (Blogcritics)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 6 of Yuri Monogatari (There it is, Plain as Daylight)

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 Quick Monday roundup

  1. Brian R. Callahan says:
    June 29, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    Great review done for Benjamin Birdie on vol. 3 of 20th Century Boys. This site is most helpful in indentifying new publications that we probably could not find on our own as well as highlighting some that were already on our buy list. Thank you.

    Brian R. Callahan
    Queens, New York

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