Okay, so my hometown comic shopping wasn’t a raging success, but in compensation, The Comics JournalSpecial Edition:2005 (the manga-licious one) is here. Actually, it’s sitting at the post office waiting for me to pick it up, but that’s closer than it was before I left, so…
Catching up with manga happenings is sooooo much easier with bloggers like the folks at Love Manga. David Taylor does a delightful news roundup here.
Johanna Draper Carlson catches up on some of her favorite manga titles at Cognitive Dissonance. It’s always kind of spooky how close our manga tastes are, and it certainly makes me sit up and take notice when she praises a title I haven’t tried. Which means I need to pick up Cheeky Angel sometime soon.
James Shee at Reading Along reviews Doubt!! James and I always seem to diverge slightly in our reaction to certain comics; we either like the same things for different reasons, have a split opinion on a title based on the same elements, or some other variation of that. So it’s always interesting for me to read his well-written reviews about titles we’ve both read.
Yay! Lyle at Crocodile Caucus likes Whistle! Whenever I praise a book and someone tries it, I always worry their response will be, “What was he on?” So… relief!