Waiting for the omnibus

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

David Welsh and Ben Huber check out this week’s new releases. Also, today’s edition of David’s shoujo/sunjeong alphabet is sponsored by the letter F.

Lissa Pattillo checks the retail sites and finds a number of possible omnibus editions in the works.

Viz editor Andy Nakatani talks to CBR’s Danica Davidson about Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto.

Yamila Abraham of Yaoi Press has an interesting proposition: She wants to team up with Digital to sell Kindles preloaded with yaoi to overseas customers.

John Thomas discusses Moyasimon on the latest Sci-Guys podcast.

News from Japan: Nihon IT Manga Shimbun now offers IT news in manga form.

Reviews: Park Cooper has short takes on a number of new manga at Manga Life.

Tangognat on vol. 5 of 20th Century Boys (Tangognat)
Justin Colussy-Estes on vol. 1 of Antique Bakery (Comics Village)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on Boys Over Flowers: Jewelry Box (Manga Life)
Sam Kusek on vol. 1 of Hero Tales (Manga Recon)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 1 of The Lizard Prince (Comics Worth Reading)
Emily on vol. 1 of The Lizard Prince (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Joy Kim on vol. 2 of Maximum Ride (Manga Life)
Jennifer Dunbar on vols. 1 and 2 of MeruPuri (A word is a unit of language)
Julie on vol. 17 of Nana (Manga Maniac Cafe)
David Brothers on vol. 6 of Pluto (4thletter)
Sandy Bilus on Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (I Love Rob Liefeld)
Billy Aguiar on World of Warcraft: Death Knight (Prospero’s Manga)
Barb Lien-Cooper on vol. 2 of Yotsuba&! (Manga Life)

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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2 Responses to Waiting for the omnibus

  1. laurie says:
    November 18, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    I dont thin pre installing yaoi is a good idea unless its just pg 13 bl or its an optional thing becuase yaoi is still porn and porn shouldnt be preuploaded onto a device.

    didnt know the kindle supported comic pages though

  2. John Thomas says:
    November 19, 2009 at 4:24 am

    Is yaoi porn? I am surprised the comment sat here all day with no response.

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