New releases and last straws

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

Kate Dacey, Gia Manry, Brad Rice, and David Welsh
pick out the most likely titles from this week’s new releases.

Tim Maughan contributes the latest entry to the Manga Moveable Feast with his review of vols. 1 and 2 of Mushishi.

Over at Robot 6, Sean T. Collins talks about the comics that drive you away from comics, or more precisely, a particular creator or genre. Sean’s examples are both superheroes, and his commenters and David Welsh chime in with more, but Sadie Mattox applies the same question to manga.

Reviews

Jan Harper on vol. 1 of Alice in the Country of Hearts (Manga Musings)
Emily on Dakara Koi to Yobanaide (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Tangognat on vols. 1-3 of The Keys to the Kingdom (Tangognat)
Brenda Gregson on vol. 1 of Kingyo Used Books (Animanga Nation)
Becky Fullan on vol. 1 of Me and the Devil Blues (Manga Jouhou)
Julie Opipari on vol. 3 of The Name of the Flower (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 3 of Ooku (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Jaime Samms on Secret Moon (Kuriousity)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of The World I Create (Manga Xanadu)

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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