Monthly Archives: May 2010

Pirates and pundits

Wow, the CMX shutdown really touched a nerve, much more so than the other manga publishers that we have lost over the years. Heidi Macdonald gathers up the wrath in a good roundup post at The Beat, and as always, … Continue reading

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Aftermath

At this point, there have been so many reactions to the shutdown of CMX that rather than rounding up the comments, I’ll just round up the roundups: I posted on the reactions at Robot 6, and the Good Comics for … Continue reading

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Breaking: DC to shut down CMX

Well, this is sad news: CMX Manga, the plucky little manga division of DC Comics that put out some nice little series but always seemed to fly under the radar, will be shutting down as of July 1. Here’s the … Continue reading

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In the kitchen, at the movies, on the shelf

I took a look at Tokyopop’s June releases in “Ten-Minute Tokyopop” at Robot 6. Melinda Beasi takes a look at recent news and reviews in her latest Manhwa Monday post at Manga Bookshelf. Rick Marshall talks to Dave Roman, co-writer … Continue reading

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That was the week that was

Lori Henderson rounds up an unusually active week in manga at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman has the latest new releases and other yuri news at Okazu. At Blog@Newsarama, Julie Opipari discusses the manga she’s most looking forward to from … Continue reading

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Too cool for you

Jason Thompson’s second House of 1000 Manga column looks at Pilgrim Jäger, a historical (well, sort of) about a pair of traveling exorcists in Europe in a time of religious upheaval. Roland Kelts thinks that “cool Japan” may be a … Continue reading

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