New manga in shops and in Previews

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

I looked over this week’s new manga at MTV Geek, and I also reviewed vols. 1-4 of Saturn Apartments and rounded up some recent news from Viz.

Kristin checks out the manga in the December Previews at Comic Attack.

Three Steps Over Japan checks out the gag manga magazine Manga Time Special.

Reviews: Carlo Santos looks over the latest releases in his new Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Johanna Draper Carlson posts short reviews of some recent SigIKKI releases at Comics Worth Reading.

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 37 of Bleach (The Comic Book Bin)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 3 of Chobits (Blogcritics)
Lori Henderson on vols. 1-3 of Gen magazine (Manga Village)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Hot Gimmick (Blogcritics)
Erica Friedman on Kaname no Etoile (Okazu)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 6 of Ooku: The Inner Chambers (Comics Worth Reading)
Sweetpea616 on Swan (Organization Anti-Social Geniuses)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 27 of The Wallflower (A Case Suitable for Treatment)

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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