Well, BAM has given up on finding me a copy of Uzumaki Vol. 1, though there are other places I can search. At least the Love Fights trade and Planetes Vol. 2 are on the way.
In other manga reading, I checked out Vol. 2 of Eerie Queerie! It’s a bit darker than the first, and the storytelling isn’t quite as focused, somehow. It’s not bad, but it’s made me a bit cautious about picking up future volumes.
After hearing lots of good things about the CLAMP manga studio, I picked up Vol. 1 of CLAMP School Detectives and enjoyed it a lot. Three popular students (one rich and sophisticated, one athletic and serious, and one sweet and goofy) form a detective agency at the enormous CLAMP School, with the express purpose of helping “damsels in distress.” (I could do without that particular phrasing, honestly, but it’s probably just my kneejerk hostility to the heterosexist patriarchy. 馃槈 ) The stories are weightless fun, and the art is beautiful. I’ll comment in more detail in a review at some point.