Coming attractions

Lissa Pattillo posts the list of October manga releases and some yaoi updates at Kuriousity.

Jake Forbes has a sneak peek at some art from vol. 4 of Return to Labyrinth.

A is for Awesome: David Welsh asks his readers to name their favorite shoujo manga that start with the letter A.

The print edition of Rin-ne will be published simutaneously in the U.S. and Japan.

News from Japan: ANN reports that Boys Be… and Bloody Monday will be starting up again with new story arcs. They also have the latest comics rankings from Oricon and Tohan.

Reviews: Park Cooper and Barb Lien-Cooper discuss Vagabond at Manga Life. Tangognat has some short takes on recent releases from CMX.

Lissa Pattillo on vol. 2 of 13th Boy (Kuriousity)
Connie on Age Called Blue (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 2 of Black Bird (Slightly Biased Manga)
Dan Polley on vol. 6 of Black God (Comics Village)
Deb Aoki on vol. 1 of Bloody Kisstan (About.com)
Julie on vol. 4 of Bride of the Water God (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Crown (Stop, Drop, and Read!)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 1 of Dark Wraith of Shannara (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Julie on vol. 15 of D.Gray-Man (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Julie on vols. 5 and 6 of Gantz (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Stephen Joyce on vol. 13 of Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga Life)
Casey Brienza on vol. 2 of Hot Gimmick (VIZBig edition) (ANN)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 2 of Kaze Hikaru (Kuriousity)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol 2 of Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You (Manga Life)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 6 of Legend (Manga Bookshelf)
Connie on vol. 12 of Monster (Slightly Biased Manga)
Matthew J. Brady on vol. 1 of Moysasimon (Warren Peace Sings the Blues)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 2 of Nightschool (Kuriousity)
Michelle Smith on vols. 1-4 of Vampire Knight (Soliloquy in Blue)

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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