Off to the Emerald Isle

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

Hey folks: Just a few quick links for today, because as you may have read on Twitter, I am in Ireland at the moment for a family wedding and have limited internet. Kate Dacey will be taking over for the next few days, so please make her feel welcome! I’ll be back at the end of next week. In the meantime…

I looked over this week’s new manga releases at MTV Geek, and I also took a look at the free digital issue of Shonen Jump Alpha that Viz has put up as a teaser for the new magazine, which debuts on Jan. 30.

At ANN, Jason Thompson takes a look at one of my favorite older series, ES: Eternal Sabbath, in his latest House of 1000 Manga column.

David Brothers spends a bit of time exploring a gag he really enjoys from One Piece at 4thletter!

Reviews

Rebecca Silverman on vol. 12 of Black Bird (ANN)
Matthew Warner on vol. 1 of Dawn of the Arcana (The Fandom Post)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Himawari-san (Okazu)
John Rose on vol. 54 of Naruto (The Fandom Post)
Anna on vol. 26 of Skip Beat! (Manga Report)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 1 of Wandering Son (Panel Patter)

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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