Scary manga

I rounded up this week’s new manga at MTV Geek; there weren’t a lot this week, but what there is looks good. Lissa Pattillo gives her take in her On the Shelf column at Otaku USA. David Welsh chimes in as well, and he’s happy to see vol. 1 of Drops of God on the list.

The horror-themed Manga Moveable Feast continues, with hostess Lori Henderson posting about ghostbuster manga and Michelle Smith kicking in a review of vols. 1-3 of Uzumaki. Lori rounds up all the Day 2 links on her archive page at Manga Xanadu.

The Globe and Mail interviews Vertical’s Ed Chavez about Drops of God.

Daneilla Orihuela-Gruber, who has been traveling lately, asks readers: Would you bring your smutty manga with you or wipe it from your laptop and leave the books at home?

News from Japan: ANN links to a survey that asked women in their 20s which manga they thought were moe. The answers probably won’t surprise you. GTO creator Tohru Fujisawa has a new manga in the works; chances are it won’t be moe. Vampire Miyu manga-ka Narumi Kakinouchi has a new series in the works, Fairy Jewel.

Reviews

Ken Haley on vol. 1 of Blood Blockade Battlefront (Sequential Ink)
Kristin on vols. 8 and 9 of Detroit Metal City (Comic Attack)
David Welsh on GoGo Monster (The Manga Curmudgeon)

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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