Sexy Voice, Giant Robot, and women warriors of Claymore

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

The Moveable Manga Feast gets under way with Sam Kusek, Erica Friedman, and Christopher Butcher weighing in on the book under consideration, Sexy Voice and Robo.

Kate Dacey takes a first look at this week’s new comics at The Manga Critic.

Joy Kim has some interesting thoughts on gender issues in Claymore.

Melinda Beasi has another Manhwa Monday roundup at Manga Bookshelf.

RE:Play creator Christy Lijewski has launched a new webcomic, Samurai Host Club. (Note: This is an 18+ comic.) (Hat tip: Kuriousity.)

At Anime Vice, John Martone reads Giant Robot magazine to see what all the fuss is about.

Yotsuba&! and Gotham Knights are on the agenda for the latest Fourcast, the 4thletter! podcast. And there’s a new Jouhou Cast up at Manga Jouhou.

News from Japan: ANN notes some new series launching in the next couple of weeks.

Reviews: The Manga Recon team files their weekly set of brief Manga Minis. Ed Sizemore has some short takes on recent manga from Del Rey at Comics Worth Reading.

Oyceter on vols. 16 and 17 of Claymore (Sakura of DOOM)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Crown of Love (Comics-and-More)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Crown of Love (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Jormungand (Okazu)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of Jormungand (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Snow Wildsmith on Merry Family Plan (Fujoshi Librarian)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Natsume’s Book of Friends (Tangognat)
Connie on vol. 37 of One Piece (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 9 of One Thousand and One Nights (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kristin on Phantom Dream (Comic Attack)
Michael May on Talking to Strangers (Robot 6)
Connie on vol. 4 of Two Flowers for the Dragon (Slightly Biased Manga)
Nick Smith on vol. 1 of Ultimo (ICv2)
Julie on vol. 9 of Vampire Knight (Manga Maniac Cafe)

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 Sexy Voice, Giant Robot, and women warriors of Claymore

  1. Kris says:
    February 9, 2010 at 11:24 am

    Thanks for the link. :)
    And there’s more Crown of Love reviews! The more reviews I read, the more I feel like I should be reading the title as well. Everyone keeps saying things like “I didn’t expect to like this, I usually don’t like stories with characters like this, but it’s well written and I want more.” It’s hard to ignore something like that.

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