Pre-holiday roundup

Just in time for shopping season, my Manga Gift Guide is up at MTV Geek, and if you’re looking for a good read for the long weekend, check out my picks from this week’s new manga.

Seven Seas has been busy lately, and Sean Gaffney takes a look at the new licenses they announced last month, while Lissa Pattillo comments on their decision to release some stories in omnibus format.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber asks the readers: What’s your favorite sci fi/fantasy manga?

Reviews: Carlo Santos rounds up a stack of recent releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN.

Kristin on vols. 1 and 2 of Asch the Bloody (Comic Attack)
Anna on vols. 1 and 2 of Basara (Manga Report)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 2 of Chobits (Blogcritics)
Danica Davidson on vol. 1 of Daniel X (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 3 of Grand Guignol Orchestra (ANN)
Kristin on vol. 3 of Gunslinger Girl (omnibus edition)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 13 of Higurashi: When They Cry (ANN)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 3 of Oresama Teacher (ANN)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 12 of Pokemon Adventures (Blogcritics)
Rebecca Silverman on vols. 1 and 2 of Pokemon: Black and White (ANN)
Brigid Alverson on vol. 1 of Psyren (MTV Geek)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Pumpkin Scissors (Blogcritics)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 5 of Ranma 1/2 (Blogcritics)
Carlo Santos on vol. 4 of Saturn Apartments (ANN)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 8 of Seiho Boys’ High School (ANN)
Lori Henderson on vols. 7-8 of With the Light (Manga Village)
John Hogan on A Zoo in Winter (Graphic Novel Reporter)

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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